Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Russia, Volume I - Office of the Historian

Chapter VII. The Establishment of the Soviet Power

Contents

Attitude of the American and other governments toward the Bolshevik régime—Interviews of the American military attaché and Red Cross representative with Trotsky—Decrees abolishing private ownership of real estate—The beginnings of civil war—Elections to the Constituent Assembly—The Kalpashnikov incident (Documents 247-327)
Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly—Assumption of definite control by the All-Russian Soviet Congress—Proclamation of the Soviet republic—The “Sisson documents” (Documents 328-378)
Resumption of hostilities by the Germans—Removal of the American Embassy to Vologda—President Wilson’s message to the All-Russian Congress of Soviets, March 11, 1918 (Documents 379-409)