Leaflets of the Russian Revolution

Table of Contents (proposed chapter titles plus subtitles and/or brief descriptions):

Preface, Acknowledgements, and Notes

Part I: The Revolutionary Year 1917 (Essay)

Part II: The Political Struggle - Leaflets of Russian Socialist Parties & Soviets

1. “To the Revolutionary Students of Russia,” December 1916
2. “The Day of the People’s Wrath is Near,” January 9, 1917
3. “Only a Provisional Government Can Bring Peace,” January 24, 1917
4. “For a Provisional Revolutionary Government,” February 1917
5. “A Day to Prepare for Conquering the Enemy,” February 21, 1917
6. “For a General Strike Against Autocracy,” February 27, 1917
7. “Soldiers, Take Power into Your Own Hands!,” March 1, 1917
8. “Joining Together to Achieve Peace,” March 14, 1917
9. “Calling for Peace…And Renewed Offensives,” May 2, 1917
10. “A Bolshevik Appeal Finds an Echo in the Streets,” June 9, 1917
11. “Responses to the July Days Uprising,” July 3-4, 1917
12. “The Bolsheviks Retreat in order to Advance,” July 5, 1917

Part III: Worker Militias and Red Guard

1. Project for party militias drawn up by the Petersburg Committee of the RSDRP(b) in mid-April 1917.
2. “Draft Statute of the Worker Guard” of Vyborg District, April 29, 1917
3. Anonymous, “About the Red Guard” [Menshevik position] April 29, 1917
4. Alexander Shlyapnikov, “About the ‘Red Guard’” [Bolshevik position] May 5, 1917

Part IV: The Economic Struggle – Documents of the Petrograd Metalworkers’ Union

1. Resolutions of Petrograd metalworkers’ representatives about the political and economic situation in Russia, summer 1917
2. Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Our Wage Rates Agreement,” August 17, 1917
3. Alexander Shlyapnikov, “We Should Have Only One Union of Metalworkers,” August 17, 1917
4. Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Tasks of the Wages Rates Valuation Commissions,” October 1, 1917
5. Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Once More about the Organization of Unions,” November 9, 1917
6. Alexander Shlyapnikov, “About the Conference of the Metalworkers’ Union of Moscow Oblast,” November 9, 1917 (excerpt)

Epilogue: “To All Workers” from the People’s Commissar of Labor December 22, 1917

Bibliography

Index