Russia

Map-Russia in 1914

http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/great%20war/great%20war%20%20pages/great%20war%20map%2024.htm, visited 18 May 2004

Russia at time of Brest-Litovsk Treaty

http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/great%20war/great%20war%20%20pages/great%20war%20map%2041.htm, visited 18 May 2004

St. Petersburg-Petrograd

http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/petro2.gif, visited 18 May 2004

St. Petersburg-Petrograd

http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/petro3.gif, viisted 18 May 2004

Lenin

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/09/21/lenin.jpg, viisted 18 May 2004

A Document

A Document Continued

Hanging Order, 1918

 11-8-18  

Send to Penza To Comrades Kuraev, Bosh, Minkin and other Penza communists 

Comrades! The revolt by the five kulak volost's must be suppressed without mercy. The interest of the entire revolution demands this,because we have now before us our final decisive battle "with the kulaks." We need to set an example. 

1) You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the public

sees) at least 100notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers. 2) Publish their names. 3) Take away all of their grain. 4) Execute the hostages - in accordance with yesterday's

telegram. 

This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out:let's choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks. 

Telegraph us acknowledging receipt and execution of this. 

Yours, Lenin 

P.S. Use your toughest people for this. 

..................................TRANSLATOR'S COMMENTS: Lenin uses the derogative

termkulach'e in referenceto the class of prosperous peasants. A volost'was a

territorial/administrative unitconsisting of a few villages and surrounding land.  

[not numbered]  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ad2kulak.html

Trotsky

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/photodraw/portraits/trotsky.jpg, visited 18 May 2004

The War Against the Bolsheviks

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/his1f.htm, viisted 18 May 2004