Primary Sources: The 1910's: Russian Revolution

"The extraordinary significance of this wide-ranging collection is underscored by the fact that it remained with the family, stored in the same apartment for nearly nine decades— having survived the revolution and civil war, the Stalinist purges, the Second World War, hunger and reconstruction, Khrushchev’s Thaw and Brezhnev’s Stagnation, the fall of the Soviet Union, and a devastating civil war and unrest that lasted for almost ten years after Georgia regained its independence in 1991. In 2006 the Polievktov-Nikoladze family papers were discovered by a Notre Dame faculty and subsequently purchased by the University. The materials, predominantly in Russian and Georgian languages, include voluminous personal and professional correspondence, diaries, memoirs, photographs, and other manuscript formats."

"The Marxists Internet Archive (MIA, http://www.marxists.org/) is an all-volunteer, non-profit public library, started more than 20 years ago in 1990. " It includes access to a variety of materials including primary sources in multiple languages. A review of the website is available from George Mason University's Center for history and New Media written by T. Mills Kelly George Mason University January 2003http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/d/39/whm.html

"More than 650 primary sources relating to the relationship between the two countries in the decade following the Russian Revolution, particularly regarding the response of the British labour movement.

Includes documents relating to the 1917 revolutions, the Russian Civil War, eyewitness accounts, Lenin, the 'Red Terror', the Zinoviev Letter, Anglo-Soviet trade and the 1927 break in relations between the two countries."

"This is the virtual counterpart of a physical exhibition that is dedicated to the centenary of the Russian Revolution. The analog exhibition took place in the Moffitt Library of the University of California Berkeley from September 2017- January 2017. This revolution took place in October of 1917. This revolution was a social experiment that came to end with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. However, its repercussions are felt even one hundred years later. This revolution can be considered to be the last revolution in the series of revolts in the 19th century Russian Empire that began with the Decembrist uprising of 1825, followed by 1905 Russian Revolution, and finally the February 1917 revolution that led to the abdication of the Tsar Nicholas II. The Socialist Revolution that took place on 25 October (7 November 1917 new style calendar) was led by the Bolsheviks. It is thus often called as the Red October or Bolshevik Revolution in the West. It began in Petrograd (today's Saint Petersburg) and it eventually spread throughout the territories of Russian Empire. One must also note that the revolution took place while the Russian Empire was involved in the WWI."