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

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)

        Russia

        • Preface
        • List of Principal Persons
        • List of Papers
        • Russia
          Political Affairs and Diplomatic Relations
          (Documents 1-702)
          • Chapter VII. The Establishment of the Soviet Power (Documents 247-409)
          • Index

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