Documents on the Russian Revolution (original) (raw)

Eye Witness Reports

Ten Days that Shook the World, by John Reed 1919

Six Red Months in Russia, by Louise Bryant 1918

History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk, by Leon Trotsky, 1918

From July to October, from My Life, by Leon Trotsky, 1930

The History of the Russian Revolution, by Leon Trotsky, 1930

The October Revolution, by J.V. Stalin, 1918

The October Days, from Krupskaya’sReminiscences of Lenin, 1933

The Years of Revolution, from Alexandra Kollontai’s autobiography, 1926

Women Fighters in the Days of the Great October Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai, 1927

Great October in the Ukraine, Nestor Makhno, 1927

Smolny on the Night of the Storm, Anatoly Lunacharsky

Contemporary accounts of the Russian Revolution

The Revolution against Capital, Antonio Gramsci, December 1917

The Russian Revolution, Karl Kautsky, November–December 1917

The Bolsheviki Rising, Karl Kautsky, March 1918

The Russian Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg, 1918

Capitalist Europe and Socialist Russia, Morgan Philips Price, November 1918

The Truth about Russia, Arthur Ransome, 1918

The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government, Peter Kropotkin, April 1919

Third Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Georgi Dimitrov, 3 November 1920

The Russian Revolution, William Z. Foster, 1921

Is the Russian Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution?, Karl Radek, 1921

The Paths of the Russian Revolution, Karl Radek, 1922

On the Russian and German Revolutions, Eduard Bernstein, December 1922

My Disillusionment in Russia, Emma Goldman, 1923

Lessons of October, Leon Trotsky, 1924

Year One of the Russian Revolution, Victor Serge, 1925–1928