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Anarchism
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Anarchy Archives Very useful site with comprehensive coverage
of key anarchists and anarchist events. Hint: use the navigation bar
above each picture to access the online collected works and
publications, commentaries, bios. Includes micro sites for
Proudhon,
Bakunin,
Malatesta,
Kropotkin amongst others.
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For jihadist, read
anarchist
Article (Aug 2005) from The Economist. Looks at 19th
century anarchism attacks and compares them with the
present. Useful survey of anarchist attacks
Socialism
Marxism
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Marxism
Made Simple An interesting, visually zippy overview of Marxism, with a
Marxist slant and an inclusion of different contemporary views of Marxism
with modern analogies. However, the site may bombard you with ads and
requests to download other programmes .... Marxism and capitalism??
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Encyclopedia of
Marxism An excellent resource - divided into glossaries of people,
places, events, organizations, terms, and periodicals dealing with
Marxism.
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Marxist Dreams and
Soviet Realities An excellent essay from historian Ralph Raico (professor
of history at the State University College at Buffalo and a senior fellow
of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University)
on the ideology of the Soviet Union.
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Marxist Internet Archive A vast
collection of full-text works and references ranging from the writings of
Lenin to the Soviet Constitution. Includes a
Students
section on Learning what Marxism is about.
- Marx and Engels Collection
Very large collection of speeches
and writing. Set out chronologically from the Marx2Mao site.
 Communist Manifesto The Karl Marx and Frederick Engels classic, online
in full.
 Bolshevism/Communism
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A History of the Bolshevik Party
by Alan Woods Monumental online book published by welred. However,
detailed and clear index on this page makes dipping in & out easy.
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The Museum of Communism. An anti communist site set up by the
University of George Mason, Virginia. It does have interesting entries on:
Lenin's
ideas Click here to go to the casahistoria site on
the
Lenin's
Russia
page
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
2. February/March Revolution
Russian
Revolution Background
For
background since 1900
go to the casahistoria
page
Impact of World War 1
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 War and Revolution
An essay by Professor Rempel, Western New England College, on the
origins and impact of Russian involvement in the war. Places this
clearly in its diplomatic context. Terrible background - best to copy
onto a Word document to read it more easily...
Russia in Crisis, 1914
Undergraduate support article by Professor O'Brien, Dept of
History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
War, Revolution and Civil War in Russia: The Eastern
Front
For an outline of events
on the eastern front, use these links to the BBC history site on
World War 1, by Dr Jonathan Smele. Includes:
Two uncited articles from the
Library of Congress
Country Studies on the
Soviet Union:
February
March & the Provisional Govt.
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
3. October/November Revolution
The Interregnum - between
revolutions
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 The Russian
Revolution Written by Philip E. Mosley, this is a long and detailed
lecture on the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the events that followed.
It ends with a brief examination of the Civil War of 1918 – 1920, and
the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922.
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Lenin's
April Theses (1917) Undergraduate support article and source by
Professor O'Brien, Dept of History, John Jay College of Criminal
Justice, New York
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Soviet and Revolution
By
Professor Gerhard
Rempel at Western New England
College from his
Lectures on
Russian/Soviet history. Good for background narrative
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Factory committees in the Russian Revolution Essay by
Ray Cunningham, presented 1995
to the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement.
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A Guide to Electoral Behaviour in
Revolutionary Russia This site
gives the result of various elections held in Russian during 1917/19, in
several forms of statistical chart (pie, bar graph etc.). Although the
information is certainly specialist, and there is no explanation as to what
each party stands for, you can draw some interesting conclusions about
Bolshevik support
October/November
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
4. 1917: Documents, Essays &
Biographies
Documents
Essays/reviews on aspects of 1917
Biographies
Nicholas II link to casahistoria
Russian Revolution background
Lenin link to
casahistoria
Lenin's
Russia
Who
is who? Brief casahistoria bios of key figures during the
Revolutionary period
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Who's
Who: Grand Duke Mikhail Background to the Tsar for a day... Bio from
First World War.com
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Who's Who:
Alexander Kerenski. Bio from First World War.com
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Alexander Kerensky
Alexander Kerensky from Spartacus site with primary sources and good
cross links in support. NB
Remember to scroll down the page: the content is below the ad!!.
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Who's Who: Lavr
Kornilov Another excellent biography from First World War.com
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Russian
Revolutionaries
Very Extensive
listing from Spartacus.
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‘Revolutionary Silhouettes’
Written by Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky in
1923, these are a series of accounts dealing
with leading figures of the revolution, including Lenin and Trotsky. Lunacharsky, who was a member of the USSR’s first government, knew these
people personally, and each silhouette is a mixture of biography,
reminiscence and examination.
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
5. Witness Accounts and evaluations
The following are complete
books, and placed on the web.
All are by writers sympathetic at the time to the general need for change,
although it is clear from several that their ideas were changing in the
years following the revolution.
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 Foreign
Witnesses of the Revolution period
Extracts from the Spartacus site
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Ten Days that Shook the World,
John Reed October 16-25,1917: In this
classic book on the revolution, U.S. reporter John Reed describes the
ten days leading up to the Russian Revolution; ten days that forever
changed the path of workers' revolutions and aspirations to follow.
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Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs
of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik,
Cecilia Bobrovskaya 1905-15:
Bobrovskaya recollects her radicalization as a young worker in Warsaw,
and her years of underground work in Europe and Russia until the time of
the first World War. It includes her brushes with Marxists such as
Lenin, Krupskaya and Zasulich, her many arrests and imprisonments,
events surrounding the 1905 struggle, and the difficulties in printing
illegal papers and getting information to the workers.
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Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's
Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship,
Louise Bryant 1918: American journalist and historian
chronicles the Soviet Revolution from the ground up, detailing events
that both moved the nation, and those that changed families, the new
role of women in society, and the lives of children.
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An
Ambassadors Memoirs, by Maurice Paléologue (Last French Ambassador
to the Russian Court). published 1920. Monumental opus online going up
to May 1917. Use this (detailed) index page
see also the "Witness Accounts &
Evaluations" in the casahistoria
Lenin´s Russia
site for similar books covering the
period up to the death of Lenin
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
6. The end of the Romanovs
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
7. General link sites to the period
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 Soviet Union From the Library of Congress Country Studies .
Uncited, but clear, concise and thorough description of the key stages,
both before and after the events of 1917. Well presented.
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The
Russian Revolution This
is a good place to start. It has many links to sites on the
background and events of the Revolution. A useful collection of annotated
links to other sites relating to the Russian Revolution. It is very
suitable for IB Level. NB! The red background to the site will drive you mad if you look at it
too long...
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Russian
Studies on the Internet A very
thorough, and quite academic listing of sites relevant to Russian History. For serious
casahistorians in particular, but difficult to navigate.
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History of the Russian Revolution, The
- complete three-volume work by Leon Trotsky in HTML and PDF form.
Links to documentary evidence
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Chronology
of Russian History: Soviet Period
A well presented university site, looking at the grand sweep of
Russian/Soviet history from a chronological position. Good linked access to
documents such as Tsar´s abdication letter, Order No 1, April
Theses...
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Photographs of the Russian Empire
A collection of photographs of Imperial
Russia from the archives of the University of California Riverside. It
gives an interesting picture of Russia in the period 1890-1920.
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History of the Soviet Union
This website of translated documents by the Univ of East Anglia
is designed to give students easy access to a wide selection of
sources on Russian history translated into English and available
electronically.
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Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Russian
Revolution Key Documents on the
revolutionary period
- PLP
translations: an enormous number of books/documents translated
by Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. This links
to the enormous index. Good for browsing for sample documents -
but you need a general idea of what/who you are looking for as
the index is author based, not thematic
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People's Century: Red Flag
- companion website to a PBS series on the Russian Revolution.
Not the easiest site to navigate but includes interviews with
participants and eyewitnesses to the rise of the Soviet State.
For
extensive links to the events of Lenin's Russia go to the casahistoria
Lenin´s Russia
site
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
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