Stalin and Trotsky

• Leon Trotsky: The Portrait of a Youth

• Image Lenin in wheelchair, 1923

• Vladimir Lenin, Testament, 1922

• Image Old Bolsheviks: Celebrating Stalin's 50th Birthday, 1929

• Stalin, Socialism in One Country, 1926

• Image Trotsky in exile in Siberia

Stalin: The Five-Year Plans and the Purges

• Joseph Stalin, Industrialization of the Country, 1928

• First Five-Year Plan

• Collectivization

• Collectivization and Industrialization

• Image Russian agriculture {1914; need late 1920s}

The Collectivization of Agriculture

• Image Collective farm

• Dizzy with Success: Pravda, 1930

• Impact of collectivization

• Grain Problem

• The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine

• Black Famine in Ukraine 1932-33

The Growth of Industry

• Image Magnitogorsk

• Image Kasli Iron Works, Urals

• Image Tashkent cotton factory

Social Costs and Social Effects of the Plans

• Correctional labor camp

• Image Sustaining morale by propaganda: Meet the Five-Year Target Figures for the Production of Coal in Three Years, 1931
• Stalin, Speech at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites, 1935
• Image Lenin and H.G. Wells, 1920
• Joseph Stalin, Dialectical and historical materialism, 1938

• Hymn to Stalin

The Purge Trials of the 1930s

• Image Stalin, 1936

• Constitution of 1936

• Image Bukharin
• Image Sergei Kirov
• Secondary Discussion Kirov murder and purges
• Secondary Discussion Show trials
• Image Gregory Zinoviev
• Image Lev Kamenev
• Primary Source Stalin's Purges: The Official Explanation
• Primary Source Rykov's Last Plea, 1938
• Primary Source Purge Trial of Bukharin
• Revelations From the Russian Archives A tremendous resource.
• Josef Stalin (1879-1953): Marxism and the National Question 1913 
• Josef Stalin: Trotskyism or Leninism? 1924 
• Josef Stalin: Industrialization of the Country, 1928 
• Josef Stalin: Dialectical and Historical Materialism 1936
• Dizzy With Success: Concerning Questions of the Collective Farm Movement, from Pravda, March 2, 1930. 
• Collective Farms of the USSR, 1929-1940
• Memorandum on the Grain Problem, 1932 
  The memo which indicates the deliberate start of the Ukrainian famine.
• Constitution of the USSR, 1936 or represented as an Organizational Chart  
• Joseph Stalin: Dialectical and Historical Materialism (September 1938) 
• Hymn to Stalin, The cult of personality.
• Osip Mandelstam (1934?), and Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1962): Poems on Stalin  
• The Soviet Purges: Official Explanation, 1936, excerpts 
• The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre, Heard before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., Moscow, August 19-24, 1936" 
• N.I. Bukharin: Last Plea, from "The case of the Anti-Soviet 'Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites', Heard before the Military Colegium of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R., Moscow, March 2-13, 1938 
• Rapprochement between The Orthodox Church and Soviet Government. Speech of M. G. Karpov at Council of the Orthodox Church, 1945.