With this Jackdaw you can teach your students about Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin and the violence that brought the Communists to power in Russia with interesting, hands-on documents. The documents — such as Lenin’s own handwritten resolution proposing an armed uprising — and broadsheets will help students understand the major events that led to the USSR. Historian: Anthony Cash. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

• The February Revolution
• The July Days
• The Bolshevik Revolution
• The Constituent Assembly
• Civil War
• Russia Since the Revolution

• Background to the Revolution; a picture chart.
• Copy of Stalin’s police file found in Tiflis.
• Draft of Lenin’s April Theses in his own handwriting.
• Resolution in favor of armed uprising by the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on October 23 in Lenin’s own handwriting.
• Two passes issued to American journalist John Reed in 1917.
• Two pages of the Manchester Guardian, November 9, 1917.
• Decree on peace published by Izvestia, November 9, 1917.
• Secret report by the Military Attaché in Petrograd, December 1917.
• Pamphlet issued by the Bolsheviks to enlist the support of British soldiers sent to Russia during the Civil War.
• Two banknotes issued by the Soviet government during the Civil War, overprinted by the White authorities.
• Handbill published in 1917 and three Civil War propaganda posters.