Index of Documents
This page provides links to all my translations of Russian and Soviet historical documents available on this site. New material will be added occasionally as it is translated.
1881
Narodnaya volya assassinates Alexander II, 1 March 1881
1901
Dispute concerning customary rights to gather hay, 1901
1904
The Socialist-Revolutionaries' Assassination of Plehve
1905
Socialist Revolutionary CC leaflet, June 1905
1906
Black Hundreds' election address
V A Myakotin makes the case for the People's Socialist Party
1908
Peasant attitudes towards zemstvo healthcare in Buguruslan uezd, Samara guberniya
1914
"The mires of Kirsanov" - report on cleanliness in one small Russian town
1917
Appeal from various parties in the internationalist camp, 3 - 4 November 1917
B V Avilov's speech at the 2nd All-Russia Congress of Soviets, 26 October/8 November 1917
Black-Hundred monarchist declares for the revolution, 4/17 March 1917
V Bazarov - What is needed for socialism? Polemic against Bolshevik rule, December 1917
Mustafa Chokaev on October 1917 and Turkestan
February 1917 - SRs and SDs appeal to soldiers to support the revolution
RSDRP Mezhrayonka leaflet for International Women's Day, 1917
Petrograd Okhranka report on disturbances in the capital, 26 February 1917
Petrograd Soviet Economic Policy, 16 May 1917
Resolutions of a meeting of the People's Socialist Party Organising Committee, 5 March 1917
Socialist-Revolutionary-Internationalists' justification of the July demonstrations in Petrograd
Socialist Revolutionary appeal for resistance to the Bolsheviks' seizure of power, 26 October 1917
Socialist Revolutionary editorial on The Soviets and the Constituent Assembly, 6 October 1917
Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party founding resolution, 4 - 5 April 1917
What does the Belorussian Socialist Society want? Draft programme. June 1917
Food supply problems in Perm' 1917
1918
Appeal of the Council of People's Commissars on the impending famine, May 1918
Appeal of the Russian Workers' and Peasants' Soviet Government to the toiling masses of France, Britain, America, Italy and Japan (not translated by FK)
Georgian Mensheviks explain Georgia's declaration of independence, 26 May 1918
Reactions to the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, January/February 1918
Constitution of the Ufa Directory - the Provisional All-Russian Government, September-November 1918
Yu. O. Martov - Down with the Death Penalty!
1919
V. Bazarov: "July or December?" (on the Spartakusbund rising)
G V Chicherin - Two years of Soviet Russia's foreign policy
Communist International Executive Committee pamphlet: "Capitalist England - Socialist Russia" (not translated by FK)
Menshevik draft resolution on economic policy for VII Congress of Soviets, December 1919
P. Silin - The Astrakhan' Shootings, March 1919
Theses of the Right Mensheviks for the RSDRP conference, August 1919
To all! Appeal of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, July 1919
1920
Antonov rebellion, Tambov province: Programme of the insurgent Union of Toiling Peasants
Fedor Dan on British Workers' Delegation to Russia, May 1920
Privileged rations at the end of 1920 - resolution of Sovnarkom
1921
The Foundation of Gosplan, the State Planning Commission
1922
Nikolai Bukharin on the right of proletarian states to "red intervention"
Fedor Dan's impressions of NEP Moscow, early 1922
A former Red Army man returns to civilian life
1923
Letter from peasant Alfey Kichilin to Krest'yanskaya gazeta
1925
Nikolai Bukharin - "Enrich yourselves" - part of speech "On the New Economic Policy and our Tasks"
1927
Letter of complaint from peasant Ivan Khomich concerning peasants' conditions
1929
1931
Rafail Abramovich: On the Menshevik Trial in Moscow
1937
Report on the 1937 census results
1943
Ukrainian Insurgent Army - What is the UIA fighting for?
Lt.-Gen. A A Vlasov - Why have I taken up the struggle against Bolshevism?
1962
Procurator-General N Trubin's report on the uprising in Novocherkassk