The Formation of the Soviet Union

Part 1 The national problem in Russia: The Russian Empire on the eve of the 1917 Revolution; national movements in Russia: the Ukrainians and Belorussians, the Turkic people, the peoples of the Caucasus; socialism and the national problem in western and central Europe; Russian political parties and the national problem; Lenin and the national question before 1913; Lenin's theory of self-determination. Part 2 1917 and the disintegration of the Russian Empire: the general causes; the Ukraine and Belorussia: the rise of the Ukrainian Central Rada (February-June, 1917), from July to the October Revolution in the Ukraine, Belorussia in 1917; The Moslem borderlands: the all-Russian Moslem movement, the Crimea in 1917, Bashkirita and the Kasakh-Kirghiz Steppe, Turkestan and the autonomous government of Kokand; The Caucasus: the Terek region and Daghestan, Transcaucasia; the Bolsheviks in power. Part 3 Soviet conquest of the Ukraine and Belorussia: the fall of the Ukrainian Central Rada; the Communist Party of the Ukraine - its formation and early activity (1918); the struggle of the Communists for power in the Ukraine in 1919; Belorussia from 1018 to 1920. Part 4 Soviet conquest of the Caucasus: the Transcaucasian Federation; Soviet rule in the north Caucasus and eastern Transcaucasia (1918): the Terek region, Baku; The independents republics (1918-19): Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia; the prelude to the conquest; the conquest: the fall of Azerbaijan, the fall of Armenia, the fall of Georgia. Part 6 The establishment of the union of Soviet socialist republics: the consolidation of the Party and State apparatus: the RSFSR, relations between the RSFSR and the other Soviet republics, the people's republic; the opposition to centralization: nationalist opposition - Enver Pasha and the Bamachis, nationalist-communist opposition - Sultan-Galiev, communist opposition - the Ukraine, communist opposition - Georgia; formulation of constitutional principles of the Union; Lenin's change of mind; the last discussion of the nationality question. Conclusion: chronology of principal events; ethnic distribution of population, 1897 and 1926' the system of transliteration.