Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Here are entered works on the revolution and subsequent civil war that brought the Bolsheviks to power and resulted in the formation of the Soviet Union. Works on the revolutionary period in the Russian Republic are entered under Russia (Federation) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
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- Kronshtadt Rebellion, Kronshtadt, Russia, 1921
- Russo-Polish War, 1919-1920
- Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1921
- October Revolution, 1917-1921
- Russia -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
- Russian Revolution, 1917-1921
- Russian Revolution
- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921)
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A People's History of the Russian Revolution (London: Pluto Press, c2017), by Neil Faulkner (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)- The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning (London: British Socialist Party, 1918), by M. M. Litvinov, contrib. by E. C. Fairchild
- The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning (third and enlarged edition; London: British Socialist Party, 1919), by M. M. Litvinov, ed. by Ivy Litvinov
- The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning (Chicago: Socialist Party of the United States, 1920), by M. M. Litvinov, ed. by Ivy Litvinov (page images at HathiTrust)
- Considérations sur la Révolution Russe (published as by "XX", a pseudonym used by Nettlau; in French; Paris: Imp. G. Cadet, 1918), by Max Nettlau (page images at Texas)
- The First Days of Revolution in Petrograd (1917), by Maurice Agnus Oudin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- From Liberty to Brest-Litovsk: The First Year of the Russian Revolution (London: Macmillan, 1919), by Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Lessons of the Revolution (Petrograd: Bureau of International Revolutionary Propaganda, ca. 1917), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
- Lessons of the Revolution (Petrograd: Bureau of International Revolutionary Propaganda, 1918), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
- Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1918), by Leon Trotsky, ed. by Moissaye J. Olgin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Proletarian Revolution in Russia (New York: The Communist Press, c1918), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and Leon Trotsky, ed. by Lewis Corey, trans. by Jacob Wittmer Hartmann and André Tridon
- The Russian Revolution (Labor Herald Library #2; Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, ca. 1921), by William Z. Foster
- Sovetskaia Rossia i Burzhuaznaia Polsha (in Russian; 1920), by Leon Trotsky (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sovremennyi Moment v Otsienkie Partii Sotsialistov-Revoliutsionerov, Fevral'-Mart 1919 g. (in Russian (title transliterated); 1919), ed. by I. A. Rubanovich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution (London: Allen and Unwin, c1918), by Emile Vandervelde, trans. by Jean E. H. Findlay (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ten Days That Shook the World (famine relief edition; New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922), by John Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Fifth Year of the Russian Revolution: A Report of a Lecture (New York: Workers Party of America, ca. 1923), by James Patrick Cannon (HTML at marxists.org)
- My Mission to Russia, and Other Diplomatic Memories (2 volumes; London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1923), by George Buchanan
- The Russian Revolution (New York: Workers Age Publishers, ca. 1940), by Rosa Luxemburg, trans. by Bertram D. Wolfe (HTML at marxists.org)
- The Bolsheviki and the Constituent Assembly (New York: American Bolshevist Bureau of Information, ca. 1920) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1919), by John Spargo
- Das "Rote Buch" über die Politik der Völker im Kriege: Ein Aufruf an Arbeiter, Arbeiterinnen und Soldaten Aller Länder (in German; 1917), by Anarchistische Internationale Züriche Gruppe (multiple formats at archive.org)
- From Marx to Lenin (New York: Hanford Press, c1921), by Morris Hillquit
- N. Lenin: His Life and Work (Toronto: One Big Union, ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (PDF at flvc.org)
- Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (Cleveland: Toiler Pub. Assoc., ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev
- Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (London: British socialist party, ca. 1918), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (page images at HathiTrust)
- Nicolai Lenin: His Life and Work (London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Oktiabr'skii Perevorot i Vopros o Natsional'nostiakh (in Russian; Moscow, 1918), by Joseph Stalin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Our Military Construction and Our Fronts: Report Read at the 7th All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers, Peasants, Red Army and Labour Cossacks Deputies on the 7th of December 1919 (Moscow: Executive Committee of the Communist International, 1920), by Leon Trotsky
- Red Russia: Book II (London: Workers' Socialist Federation, 1919), by John Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
- Red Russia: The Triumph of the Bolsheviki (London: Workers' Socialist Federation, 1919), by John Reed
- Russia's Call to Humanity, "Save Our Souls": An Appeal to the Allies (1919), by Leonid Andreyev, ed. by Russian Liberation Committee and Union of the Russian Commonwealth, contrib. by P. N. Mili︠u︡kov, illust. by Frank Brangwyn
- Sbornik Statei (in Russian (title transliterated); 1920), contrib. by Joseph Stalin and Russian S.F.S.R. Narodny komissariat po delam natsional'nostei (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sovi͡etskai͡a Vlastʹ i Mezhdunarodnyĭ Imperīalizm : Lekt͡sīi͡a, Prochitannai͡a v Moskvi͡e 21 Apri͡eli͡a 1918 g. (in Russia; St. Petersburg: Izd-vo Petrogradskago sovi͡eta rab. i kr. arm. deputatov, 1918), by Leon Trotsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Work of the Soviets and the Unconfessable War (Petrograd, Communist International, 1919), by A Communist (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The World at the Cross Roads (Boston: Small, Mayhard and Co., c1921), by Boris Brasol
- Mirrors of Moscow (New York: T. Seltzer, 1923), by Louise Bryant, illust. by Oscar Edward Cesare
- Zyciorys i Dzialanosc Mikolaja Lenina (Lenin biography translated into Polish; Chicago: Workers Party of America, Polish Section, 1924), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Comment les Bolcheviks s'Emparèrent du Pouvoir, et Comment Ils Parviennent à le Détenir Depuis Sept Ans: Essai Historique sur la Révolution Russe (in French; Paris: Parti Monarchiste Russe en France, 1925), by E. G. (at exhibits.lib.utexas.edu)
- The Fall of the Russian Empire: The Story of the Last of the Romanovs and the Coming of the Bolsheviki (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1928), by Edmund A. Walsh
- The Fall of the Russian Empire: The Story of the Last of the Romanovs and the Coming of the Bolsheviki (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, c1928), by Edmund A. Walsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Lars T. Lih (HTML at UC Press)
- Lessons of October, by Leon Trotsky, trans. by John G. Wright (HTML at marxists.org)
- Raymond Robins' Own Story, by William Hard (illustrated HTML at BYU)
- Russia in 1919, by Arthur Ransome (Gutenberg text)
- Ten Days That Shook the World, by John Reed (Gutenberg text)
- The Chief Task of Our Times, and the Political Forces and Currents Facing the Russian Revolution (London: Workers' Socialist Federation, ca. 1918), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin (PDF in Australia)
- The Role of the Labor Unions in the Russian Revolution (New York: Union Pub. Assoc., ca. 1920), by A. Lozovskiĭ (HTML at marxists.org)
- The Soul of the Russian Revolution (New York: H. Holt, 1917), by Moissaye J. Olgin, contrib. by Vladimir G. Simkhovitch
- Between Red and White: A Study of Some Fundamental Questions of Revolution, With Particular Reference to Georgia (London: Communist Party of Great Britain, 1922), by Leon Trotsky (page images at HathiTrust)
- Debate: "Is the Failure of Socialism, As Evinced by the Recent Partial Return to Capitalism, Due to the Fallacies of Marxian Theory?" (New York: Marx-Engels Institute, 1922), by Edwin R. A. Seligman and Harry Waton
- The Homesick Million: Russia-out-of-Russia (Boston: The Stratford Co., c1933), by William Chapin Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Leninism or Trotskyism (Chicago: Pub. for the Workers Party of America by the Daily Worker Pub. Co., 1925), by Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev, Joseph Stalin, and Lev Borisovich Kamenev, contrib. by Alex Bittelman
- From October to Brest-Litovsk, by Leon Trotsky
- The Great Initiative: Including the Story of "Communist Saturdays" (Glasgow: Socialist Labour Press, ca. 1919), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, trans. by P. Lavin
- The Great Initiative: Including the Story of "Communist Saturdays" (Detroit: Marxian Educational Society, ca. 1919), by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, trans. by P. Lavin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Left Behind: Fourteen Months in Siberia During the Revolution, December 1917-February 1919, by Sophie Buxhoeveden (illustrated HTML with commentary at alexanderpalace.org)
- The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia, by William Le Queux (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Russian Revolution; The Jugo-Slav Movement, by Alexander Petrunkevitch, Samuel N. Harper, Frank Alfred Golder, and Robert Joseph Kerner (Gutenberg text)
- War and Revolution in Asiatic Russia (London: Allen and Unwin, c1918), by M. Philips Price (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The World Significance of the Russian Revolution (Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1920), by George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers, contrib. by Oscar Levy
- Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution (1974), by Antony C. Sutton (HTML with commentary at reformation.org)
- Leninizm ili Trot︠s︡kizm? (second revised edition, in Russian; Moscow: Moskovskiĭ Rabochiĭ, 1925), contrib. by Lev Borisovich Kamenev, Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov, Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev, O. W. Kuusinen, Sergeĭ Ivanovich Gusev, and Leon Trotsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Memories of the Russian Court, by Anna Aleksandrovna Vyrubova (illustrated HTML at alexanderpalace.org)
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