Foreword Preface PART ONE. INTRODUCTION: V. I. LENIN''S LIFE AND LEGACY V. I. Lenin and the Founding of the Soviet State The Russia of Lenin''s Youth Lenin as Revolutionary World War I and the Russian Revolution Bolshevik Rule and the New Soviet State War Communism: Ideology or Pragmatism? Lenin''s Last Active Years: The New Economic Policy and Other Innovations Lenin''s Decline Lenin''s Legacy PART TWO. THE DOCUMENTS 1. Lenin and the Bolshevik Seizure of Power, 1900-1917 Lenin as a Theorist of Revolution 1.
From The Urgent Tasks of Our Movement, December 1900 2. From What Is to Be Done? 1902 3. From The Party Organization and Party Literature, November 1905 4. From Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916 5. From The State and Revolution, 1917 The Path to the Bolsheviks'' Seizure of Power 6. From The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution (April Theses), April 1917 7. From Speech in Favor of the Resolution on the War, April 27 (May 10), 1917 8. From Resolution on the National Question, May 1917 9.
From An Open Letter to the Delegates of the All-Russian Congress of Peasants'' Deputies, May 7 (29), 1917 10. From The Political Situation, July 10 (July 23), 1917 11. From The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It, September 27 (October 10), 1917 12. From One of the Fundamental Questions of the Revolution, October 10 (September 27), 1917 2. The Monopolization of Power during the Civil War: 1917-1920 Toward One-Party Power 13. From To Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants! October 25 (November 7), 1917 14. From Resolution of the Central Committee of the RSDLP(B)on the Opposition within the Central Committee, November 2 (15), 1917 15. Decree on the Arrest of the Leaders of the Civil War against the Revolution, November 28 (December 11), 1917 16.
From Draft Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, January 6 (19), 1918 17. From Speech to Propagandists on Their Way to the Provinces, February 5, 1918 18. Interview Granted to an Izvestia Correspondent in Connection with the Left Socialist-Revolutionary Revolt, July 8, 1918 The Bolshevik Terror and the Stigmatization of Public Enemies 19. Draft Resolution on Freedom of the Press, November 4 (17), 1917 20. Letter to G. I. Blagonravov and V. D.
Bonch-Bruevich, December 8 (21), 1917 21. Telegram to V. L. Paniushkin, June 15, 1918 22. From Letter to G. E. Zinoviev, June 26, 1918 23. From Report of the Council of People''s Commissars on the Fifth All-Russia Congress of Soviets, July 5, 1918 24.
Telegram to the Penza Gubernia Executive Committee of the Soviets, August 19, 1918 25. From Letter to Maxim Gorky, September 15, 1919 Problems of War and World Revolution 26. The Socialist Fatherland Is in Danger! February 21, 1918 27. V. I. Lenin and others, From Resolution on War and Peace, March 8, 1918 28. From Letter to the Workers and Peasants apropos of the Victory over Kolchak, August 24, 1919 29. From Letter to American Workers, August 20, 1918 30.
From Speech at the Opening Session of the Congress, March 2, 1919 31. From ''Left-Wing'' Communism -- an Infantile Disorder, April-May 1920 32. From Report on the International Situation and the Fundamental Tasks of the Communist International to the Second Congress of Comintern, July 19, 1920 33. From Political Report to the Ninth All-Russia Conference of the RCP(B), September 20, 1920 War Communism and the Invention of a Command Economy 34. From The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government, March-April 1918 (published in Pravda on April 28, 1918) 35. From Organization of Food Detachments, June 27, 1918 36. From Speech to the First All-Russian Congress of Land Departments, Poor Peasants'' Committees, and Communes, December 11, 1918 37. From Political Report of the Central Committee to the Eighth All-Russian Conference of the RCP(B), December 2, 1919 3.
Threats to the Revolution: The Development of the New Economic Policy Disputes and Opposition in the Party, 1920-1921 38. From The Party Crisis, January 21 (February 3), 1921 39. Summary of Lenin''s Remarks at the Conference of the Delegates to the Tenth Congress of the RCP(B)--Supporters of the Platform of Ten, March 13, 1921 40. From Preliminary Draft Resolution of the Tenth Congress of the RCP on Party Unity, March 1921 Anti-Bolshevik Popular Uprisings and the Shift in Policy 41. From Report on the Political Work of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) on the Tenth Congress of the RCP(B), March 8, 1921 42. Rough Draft of Theses Concerning the Peasants, February 8, 1921 Lenin''s Objective in the New Economic Policy 43. From Report on the Substitution of a Tax in Kind for the Surplus Grain Appropriation System, March 15, 1921 44. Draft Resolution on the Question of the New Economic Policy for the Tenth Conference of the RCP(B), May 1921 45.
V. I. Lenin and V. M. Molotov, Telegram to All Provincial and Regional Party Committees of the RCP(B), July 30, 1921 46. From The Political Report of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) to the Eleventh Congress of the RCP(B), March 27, 1922 Economic Policy under the NEP 47. From Five Years of the Russian Revolution and the Prospects of the World Revolution: Report to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, November 13, 1922 48. Letter to Maxim Gorky, December 6, 1921 The Institutionalization of a One-Party System 49.
From We Have Paid Too Much, April 9, 1922 50. Letter to I. V. Stalin, July 17, 1922 Toward a Single Spiritual and Cultural System 51. Letter to A. V. Lunacharsky, May 6, 1921 52. Letter to V.
M. Molotov for the Politburo of the CC of RCP(B), January 12, 1922 53. From The Tasks of the Youth Leagues, October 2, 1920 54. From Letter to V. M. Molotov for the Members of the CC of RCP(B), March 19, 1922 &n.