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1919

Letter to Lenin (January 1, 1919)

Letter to Lenin (January 2, 1919)

Telegram to Lenin (No. 36, January 2, 1919)

Telegram to Lenin (No. 43, January 2, 1919)

Letter to Lenin (January 3, 1919)

Telegram to S. E. Saks (January 3, 1919)

A Memorandum for Certain Newly-Fledged Anglophils (January 3, 1919)

Letter to the Council of Defence (January 4, 1919)

To the Spartacus League of Germany and the Communist Party of German Austria (January 5, 1919)

It is Time to Finish It! (January 7, 1919)

Telegram to Lenin (No. 114, January 7, 1919)

First Reading-Book’ – Is It Worth Reading? (January 9, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy (January 9, 1919, No. 74, Valuiki)

A Severe Purge is Necessary (9 January, 1919)

Scientifically or Somehow? (Letter to a friend, January 10,1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, January 10, 1919, No.75, Gryazi)

Telegram to the Headquarters of the 16th Division on the Occasion of the Death of Comrade Kikvidze (January 10, 1919)

Letter to Sverdlov (January 10, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, January 11, 1919, No.76, Balashov)

Letter to Lenin (January 11, 1919)

Telegram to Sverdlov (January 11, 1919)

Telegram to Lenin (January 12, 1919)

Order Out of Chaos (January 13, 1919, different version)

Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg (January 18, 1919)

Telegram to Lenin (January 19, 1919)

Telegram to Lenin (January 22, 1919)

Telegram to Lenin (January 23, 1919)

Invitation to the First World Congress [of the Comintern] (January 24, 1919)

Telegram to Lenin (January 25, 1919)

Telegram to Military Revolutionary Council, Astrakhan (January 26, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Nikolayev Division (January 27, 1919, Pokrovsk, Saratov Province)

Letter to Lenin (Before [9-31] January, 1919)

To the Cossacks (January 1919?)

A Letter to the Middle Peasants, from the People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (February 6, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Soldiers of the Northern Army Defending the Approaches to Petrograd, February 11, 1919, No.79, Yamburg)


What Sort of Military Journal Do We Need? (Speech at the Conference of Editors of and Contributors to Military Publications, February 23, 1919)

At the Fronts (Report Read in Moscow, February 24, 1919)

Report on the Communist Party Of the Soviet Union and the Red Army (March 2, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army (March 2, 1919, No. 81, Moscow)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, March 3, 1919, No.80 (4.6k)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army, March 3, 1919, No.82, Moscow)

Manifesto Of the Communist International to the Workers Of the World (March 6, 1919, alternative translation – extract)

Great Days (March 6, 1919, different version)

Order Of the Day Number 83 to the Red Army and Navy (March 9, 1919, different version)

To Comrades Of the Spartacus League (March 9, 1919, different version)

An Appreciation of the State of the Red Army (Answer to questions put by a representative of the Soviet press) (1919)

A Contribution to the Eighth Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Talk with representatives of the press, March 17, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy (March 9, 1919, No. 83, Moscow)

Ya. M. Sverdlov (Obituary, March 17, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Railway Workers (March 18, 1919, No. 84, Ruzayevka station)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Peasants (March 18, 1919, No. 85, Ruzayevka station)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army (March 18, 1919, No. 86, Inza station)

Martov (March 18, 1919)

Karl Kautsky (March 18, 1919)

In Paris (March 18, 1919)

Our Policy in Creating the Army (Theses adopted by the 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party in March 1919)

To the Communists on the Eastern front (March 24, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the 2nd Army, March 26, 1919, No.87, Sarapul)

The Counter-Revolution at Its Last Gasp (March 27, 1919)

Our Tasks (Interview given to a Rosta correspondent. From the archives) (March 27, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy (April 3, 1919, No. 88, Moscow)

Which Government is the More Stable? (April 5, 1919)

The Eastern Front (Speech at the Joint Session of the Samara Province Executive Committee, Committee of the Russian Communist Party, and Representatives of the Trade Unions, April 6, 1919)

To the Foreign Soldiers in North Russia (April 6, 1919

To the Urals! (April 7, 1919)

A Spring That Will Decide (April 9, 1919)

What Does Kolchak want? (April 10, 1919)

The Fight for the Volga (April 12, 1919)

What is Kolchak Hoping for? (April 14, 1919)

What Does Russia Need? (April 14, 1919)

A Creeping Revolution (April 17, 1919

Behind the Smokescreen (April 18, 1919)

To the Comrade Printers, From the Front (April 19, 1919

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Troops of the Northern Front (April 20, 1919, No. 89, Vologda)

Order to the Commissars of the 3rd Army, April 22, 1919, No.90, Vyatka)

A Creeping Revolution (April 23, 1919)

Concerning Military Tribunals (April 23, 1919)

Rallying the Army During the Civil War (speech, April 1919)
The Task of the Eastern Front (April 24, 1919 )

To All Citizens of Vyatka Province (April 24, 1919)

Order to the 3rd Army (April 26, 1919, Vyatka)

What You Do, Do Quickly! (April 27, 1919)

Don’t Waste Time! (April 28, 1919)

Russia or Kolchak?

Once More: Don’t Waste Time! (April 30, 1919)

The First of May (May 1, 1919)

Order to the Troops on the Eastern Front (May 1, 1919, No.92)

En Route: Thoughts on the Progress Of the Proletarian Revolution (April 29-May 1, 1919)

Woe to Deserters! (May 3, 1919)

Deserters Help Kolchak (May 3, 1919)

The Beginning of a Turn (May 4, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, May 5, 1919, No. 94, Kazan)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the ‘N’ Division, May 6, 1919, No.95, Vyatskie Polyany (3.9k)

A great test (May 7, 1919)

Our Southern Front (May 11, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, May 12, 1919, No.97, Kozlov)

Revolt in the Rear (May 12, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Armies of the Southern Front, May 15, 1919, No.98, Kupyansk)

For Soviet Coal! (May 16, 1919)

Lessons from the Ukraine (May 16, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (to the ‘N’ Army, May 22, 1919, No. 99, Izyum)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (to the ‘N’ Army, May 25, 1919, No.100, Boguchar)

Southern Front, Pull Yourself Together! (May 26, 1919)

The Ninth Wave (June 1, 1919)

The Makhno Movement (June 2, 1919)

Talk with Representatives of the Kharkov Press (June 4, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Armies of the Southern Front, June 5, 1919, No.105, Kharkov)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, June 6, 1919, No.106, Balakleya station)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, June 6, 1919, No.107, Balakleya station)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to All the Forces of the Soviet Ukraine, June 8, 1919, No.108, Lozovaya station)

The Causes of the Defeats on the Southern Front (June 8, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, June 9, 1919, No.111, Kharkov)

On the Situation on the Southern Front (Report to the Plenum of the Kharkov Soviet of Workers’, Cossacks’ and Peasants’ Deputies, June 14, 1919)

Steel and Gold (On the problem of acts of treachery in the Red Army, June 17, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, June 18, 1919, No.112, Kharkov)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the 13th Army, June 19, 1919, No.113)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, June 27, 1919, No.118, Voronezh)

Established Soviet Deserters (June 28, 1919)

The Threat to Voronezh and to Kursk (June 27, 1919)

Once More on the Lessons from the Ukraine (June 28, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, June 29, 1919, No.119, Kursk)

Take Care of the Wounded and Sick Soldiers! (July 8, 1919)

Profound Verbiage (July 10, 1919)

Green and White (July 11, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, July 11, 1919, No.122, Voronezh)

Immediate Problems in Building the Army (Letter to the Revolutionary War Councils of the Armies and the Fronts) (July 12, 1919)

The East and the South (July 15, 1919)

Finish it Before Winter Comes! (July 16, 1919)

Criminal Demagogy (July 17, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Forces on the Southern front, July 18, 1919, No.126, Smorodino station)

Commanders Must Know How to Obey Orders (July 18, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, July 19, 1919, No.121, Voronezh station)

The Harvest and the War (July 19, 1919)

Reality and ‘Critical’ Chatter (July 19, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army, July 21, 1919, No.129, Kremenchug)

There Must Be Order (July 21, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Troops Stationed or in Action on the Territory of the Ukrainian SSR, July 22, 1919, No.130, Kremenchug)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the 14th Army, July 22, 1919, No.131, Kremenchug)

The Day of the Wounded (July 23, 1919)

Guerrilla-ism and the Regular Army (July 24, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs (to the 12th and 14th Armies, July 26, 1919, No.132, Korenyevo station)

The Red Army (July 28, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Commanders and Commissars of the 9th Army of the Southern Front, July 29, 1919, No.134, Penza)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Armies of the Southern Front, August 1, 1919, No.135, Voronezh)

From The Brest Stage: Foreword (August 1, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and the Red Navy, August 2, 1919, No.136, Vorozhba)

Hand in Your Rifle! (August 2, 1919)

Who Betrayed Poltava? (August 3, 1919)

Makhno and Others (August 4, 1919)

The Militia Programme and Its Academic Critic (August 5, 1919)

Order to the Red Army (August 7, 1919, No. 140, Konotop)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the 14th Army, August 8, 1919, No.142, Konotop)

A Word to the Ukrainian Soldiers Misled by Bandits (August 1919)

Instruction to the Responsible Workers of the 14th Army (August 9, 1919)

The 14th Army and Its Commander (August 9, 1919)

August in the Ukraine (August 12, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Armies of the Southern Front, August 13, 1919, No.143, Voronezh)

The Supply Apparatus Needs Refreshing (To the Revolutionary War Councils, August 16, 1919)

The 10th Army (August 18, 1919)

Round Them Up! (August 18, 1919)

The Courage of Despair (August 19, 1919)

To the Troopers of Mamontov’s Corps (August 24, 1919)

The Situation at the Front (Talk with representatives of the Soviet press) (August 26, 1919)

Churchill Threatens But We Are Not Afraid (August 29, 1919)

Proletarians, to Horse! (September 1, 1919)

Finland and Thirteen Others (September 1, 1919)

Order by the Chairmain of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, September 4, 1919, No.146, Tula)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, September 4, 1919, No.147, Orel)

Workers and Peasants, Get Out and Round Them Up! (September 4, 1919)

Do We Need Guerrillas? (September 6, 1919)

No Entry for Adventurers, Careerists and Rogues! (September 8, 1919)

Firing, or Making a Noise? (September 10, 1919)

The Local Soviet Home-Guard (September 11, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red forces advancing in the Gryazi-Voronezh direction, September 12, 1919, No.149, Tambov)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the ‘N’ Army, September 12, 1919, No.150, Rtishchevo)

Colonel Mironov (September 13, 1919)

The lesson of the Mironov affair (September 16, 1919)

Guiding principles of our immediate policy on the Don (Notes from the archives, September 16, 1919)

A letter to the CC of the RCP (September 20, 1919)

From a Speech to a Conference of the Moscow Organizations of the RCP (September 24, 1919)

The Working Woman and the War (September 30, 1919)

A Letter to Our French Comrades (September 1919)

Plan for operations on the Southern front (Notes from the secret archives, September 1919)

It is Necessary to Rearm! (Advice to Certain Military Specialists, September 1919)

A.P. Nikolayev (October 5, 1919)

Tula steel (October 6, 1919)

About the Military Specialists (From the archives, Autumn 1919)

The Red Army as Seen by a White Guard (October 13, 1919)

Concluding Remarks at the conference of representatives of the Central Directorate of Military Schools and the Command Courses, October 14, 1919)

Draft of a Letter to Party Members (in the Revolutionary War Councils of the Armies and Fronts and Heads of Political Departments, October 14, 1919)

Order to the Revolutionary War Councils and Political Departments of the Armies and Fronts (October 14, 1919, No. 1692)

Petrograd Will Defend Itself from Within as Well (October 16, 1919)

The Blow Struck at Petrograd (October 16, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the 7th Army, October 18, 1919, No.155, Petrograd)

Before the Turning-Point (October 18, 1919)

The Fight for Petrograd (Speech in the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ Peasants’ and Red Army Men’s Deputies, October 19, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army Men, Commanders and Commissars Defending Petrograd, October 20, 1919, Petrograd)

The Turning-Point (October 21, 1919)

The First Blow (October 23, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, October 24, 1919, No.158, Petrograd)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Reublic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, October 24, 1919, No.159, Dyetskoye Syelo (formerly Tsarskoye Syelo)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Navy, October 24, 1919, No.160, Petrograd)

Tanks (October 25, 1919)

A great victory (October 25, 1919)

Greetings to the Revolutionary War Council of the Southern Front on the Occasion of the Rout of the Whites’ Cavalry Corps before Voronezh, October 26, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the 7th Army, October 28, 1919, No.161, Petrograd)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Troops of the 7th Army, October 28, 1919, No.162, Petrograd)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Troops of the 7th Army, October 30, 1919, No.162a, Petrograd)

Petrograd, October 1917-October 1919 (October 30, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the 7th Army, November 2, 1919, No.163, Petrograd)

Will the Finns Intervene? (Talk with a Representative of the Soviet Press)

To the Soldiers of General Yudenich’s Army (November 3)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the North-Western White Army, November 3, 1919, No.164, Petrograd)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the 7th Army, November 3, 1919, No.165, Petrograd)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Revolutionary War Council of the 7th Army, November 3, 1919, No.166, Petrograd)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Commanders, Commissars and All Responsible Workers of the 7th Army, November 4, 1919, No.167, Petrograd)

Order by the Chairman of the of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the train of the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic, November 4, 1919, No.169, Petrograd)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Army and the Red Navy, November 4, 1919, No.170, Petrograd)

The Defence of Petrograd (Report to the All-Russia Central Executive Committee, November 7, 1919)

Problems the Army During the Civil War (speech, November 8th, 1919)

French Socialism on the Eve Of Revolution (November 20, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs to the Red Forces Entering the Ukraine, November 30, 1919, No.174, Moscow)

Our Work at Building the Army and Our Fronts (Report to the 7th All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’, Peasants’, Red Army Men’s and Working Cossacks’ Deputies, December 7, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic and People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs on Measures for Overcoming Guerrilla-ism, December 11, 1919, No.180, Moscow)

Our Immediate Problems (Speech at the conference of political workers in the Red Army, December 12, 1919)

The Transition to Universal Labour Service in Connection with the Militia System (December 16, 1919)

Concerning Two Documents (To Revolutionary War Councils of Armies and Fronts, December 17, 1919)

Order by the Chairman of the Revolutionary War Council of the Republic to the Red Army and the Red Navy, December 17, 1919, No. 183, Moscow

Jean Longuet (December 18, 1919)

Petrograd, Be on Your Guard! (December 22, 1919)

Prepare for Front Week (December 22, 1919)

To Women Workers (Concerning Front Week, December 27, 1919)

Cossacks, Form Up in a Soviet Column! (In connection with the forthcoming Cossack congress)

What is a Good Regiment and What is a Bad One?