History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (bolsheviks): Short Course

This book was published in 1938 as the authoritative account of the history and development of the great V. I. Lenin's Bolshevik Party. The book begins with the foundations of the Party laid by Lenin in the 1890s, and then takes the reader through several major events in Party and Russian history such as the split between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, the 1905 Revolution, the Stolypin reaction, the February and October Revolutions of 1917, the subsequent Civil War, the period of socialist reconstruction, agricultural collectivization, and then finally concluding with an examination of the world-historic 1936 Constitution. This is an indispensable book to learn about the history of the Bolshevik Party and the first two decades of the Soviet Union--the world's first socialist state.