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The Russian Revolution and Civil War —
Documents in the Russian Language
We are now starting to post a few documents in the Russian language about the Russian revolutionary struggle against the Tsar, the insurrection in 1917, the ensuing civil war, and the early years of the Soviet Union. Because of our inadequate language skills, for which we apologize, the descriptions of each document here are in English.
Some of these files were originally truly enormous in size, up to 500 megabytes or more. We have turned them into OCR searchable files (in Russian of course) and have then further reduced the file sizes. This means that visitors will need to use Adobe Acrobat version 9.0 or later (or equivalent PDF readers) in order to read many of these documents. [Version 9.0 came out in 2008 and has been superseded by several newer versions.]
If you know of other documents which should be posted here, or if you have other comments or suggestions, please contact us at: freespeech@bannedthought.net
Lenin’s Writings — In Russian:
- [The following three works have been copied from the Marxist Internet Archive.]
- “What Is To Be Done?”, in Russian, written in 1902, 484 pages. Epub book format [257 KB]
- “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, in Russian, written in 1916, 310 pages. Epub book format [152 KB]
- “State and Revolution”, in Russian, written in 1917, 224 pages. Epub book format [150 KB]
Years of Revolutionary Struggle against the Tsarist Autocracy:
- “листовки_петербургских_большевиков” [“Listovki Peterburgskih Bolshevikov”, or “Leaflets of the St. Petersburg Bolsheviks from 1902-1917”]. This is the First Volume, with leaflets from 1902-1907. (State Publishing House for Political Literature, 1939), 576 pages. Searchable PDF format [Enormous file (may download slowly): 102,472 KB]
October Revolution:
“ОКТЯБРЬСКiй ПЕРЕВОРОТЪ — Фаkты и доkументы”, [“October Revolution — Facts and Documents”], a collection of documents and accounts of the events of the great October Revolution, (Petrograd: 1918), 432 pages. Searchable PDF format [Enormous file (may download slowly): 85,294 KB]
- “очерки_по_истории_октябрьской_реболюции” [“ocherki_po_istorii_oktyabrskoj_revolyutsii”, or “Historical Essays about the October Revolution”], written by people studying at the “Institute of Red Professors”, volume 1, edited by M. Pokrovsky, (Moscow/Leningrad: State Publishing House, 1927), 544 pages. Searchable PDF format [Enormous file (may download slowly): 98,803 KB]
Early Years of the Soviet Union:
- “Три Года Пролетарской Революции” [“Three Years of Proletarian Revolution”]. “Three Years of the Proletarian Revolution: a leaflet explaining to the worker, peasant and Red Army man what the Soviet Power has done in the three years of its existence. In memory of the great anniversary of the October Revolution.” (Perm: State publishing house, 1920), 16 pages (bound as a small pamphlet with a hard cover!). Searchable PDF format [8,118 KB]; Searchable PDF format (smaller file size) [3,511 KB]