Works : Volume III. 1917 March - October/ J. V. Stalin

This book contains a month by month biographical timeline of the life of Stalin from March to October of 1917.

This is the third volume in the Works series, authored by J. V. Stalin. This volume is proceeded by the second volume. It is followed by the fourth volume.

Includes bibliographic references.

1917 : The soviets of workers' and soldiers' deputies -- The war -- Bidding for ministerial portfolios -- Conditions for the victory of the Russian revolution -- Abolition of national disabilities -- Either - or -- Against federalism -- Two resolutions -- The land to the peasants -- May day -- The provisional government -- The conference in the Mariinsky Palace -- The seventh (April) conference of the R.S.D.L.P (Bolsheviks) -- Lagging behind the revolution -- What did we expect from the conference? -- The municipal election campaign -- Yesterday and today -- Against isolated demonstrations -- Results of the Petrograd municipal elections -- To all the toilers, to all the workers and soldiers of Petrograd -- At the demonstration -- Close the ranks! -- Speeches delivered at an emergency conference of the Petrograd organization of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks) -- What has happened? -- Victory of the counter-revolution -- The victory of the cadets -- Two conferences -- The new government -- The constituent assembly elections -- Speeches delivered at the sixth congress of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks) -- What do the capitalists want? -- Against the Moscow conference -- More on the subject of Stockholm -- Whither the Moscow conference? -- Counter-revolution and the peoples of Russia -- Two courses -- Outcomes of the Moscow conference -- The truth about our defeat at the front -- The causes of the July defeat at the front -- Who really is responsible for the defeat at the front? -- American billions -- This is election day -- A period of provocation -- Division of labour in the 'socialist-revolutionary' party -- Yellow alliance -- Either - or -- We demand! -- The conspiracy continues -- Against compromise with the bourgeoisie -- The crisis and the directory -- They will not swerve from their path -- The break with the cadets -- The second wave -- Foreigners and the Kornilov conspiracy -- The democratic conference -- Two lines -- All power to the soviets! -- The revolutionary front -- Forging chains -- A government of bourgeois dictatorship -- Campaign against the workers -- You will wait in vain! -- Comments - - A paper coalition -- Self-chastisement -- The plot against the revolutions -- Who is torpedoing the constituent assembly? -- The counter-revolution is mobilizing - prepare to resist! --Who needs the pre-parliament? -- Soviet power -- A study in brazenness -- Blacklegs of the revolution -- Speech at a meeting of the central committee -- 'Stron bulls of Bashan have beset me round' -- What do we need?

This item is the third volume of the collected works of J. V. Stalin, more commonly known simply as Stalin. Throughout his writing, Stalin discusses topics covering imperialism, revolution, labor unions, the Soviet Union, military and industrial doctrine, Marxism, Communism, Leninism, Bolshevism, socialism, anarchism, and class struggle, just to name a handful of the what Stalin writes about. This volume series is exhaustive in it's coverage of Stalin's writings over the decades, starting in 1901 and going until 1934. Translation from Russian to English was performed by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The same organization created the forwards to the volumes, and the biographical timeline of Stalin's life at the end of each volume, covering the same time period that the writings in the given volume emerge from. Overall, this series of volumes represents a close to complete collection of the writings, thought, and works of Joseph Stalin.

From the library of Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.

Translated from Russian to English.