R. Page Arnot

A Short History of the Russian Revolution

from 1905 to the present day (1937)

Part II
from February 1917 to the present day


Series: The New People’s Library—Volume VI
Publisher: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., London, 1937
Transcription/Markup: Brian Reid
Public Domain: Marxists Internet Archive (2007). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.


Contents

I. From February to October 1917
   1. The February Revolution
   2. The April Theses
   3. May to August
   4. September to October

II. Land, Bread, and Peace
   1. Peace
   2. Land
   3. Dictatorship of the Proletariat

III. Intervention and Civil War
   1. The Capitalist Powers Attack
   2. The Attack Intensified
   3. The Poles: and the End of Wrangel
   4. Military Communism

IV. Restoration
   1. The New Economic Policy
   2. The U.S.S.R.

V. The Socialist Offensive
   1. Socialist Industrialisation
   2. Obstacles and Struggle
   3. Collectivisation

VI. Socialist Society
   1. The Second Five-Year Plan
   2. The Stalin Constitution

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