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List of Documents 1. The Bolshevik Revolution: The Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets: Speeches and Decrees, November 7‒8 , 1917 1 2. The Bolshevik Revolution: Extract from Morgan Phillips Price, My Reminiscences of the Russian Revolution, 1921, November 4‒11, 1917 7 3. John Reed: Dispatch on the Bolshevik Revolt Cabled to the New York Call, November 13, 1917 12 4. V. I. Lenin: “For Bread and Peace,” Written in Petrograd, December 14, 1917, First Published in German in May 1918 in the Newspaper Jugend- Internationale, No. 11 16 5. President Woodrow Wilson: “The Fourteen Points,” Address to Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, January 8, 1918 18 6. Allied Military Representatives of the Supreme War Council, Joint Note 31, June 3, 1918 23 7. Secretary of State (Robert Lansing): Aide- Mémoire to the Allied Ambassadors, July 17, 1918 26 8. The Soviet Reaction to Allied Intervention: Appeal of the Council of People’s Commissars to the Toiling Masses of England, America, France, Italy, and Japan on Allied Intervention in Russia, August 1, 1918 29 9. Allied Intervention in Siberia: The Diary of Lieutenant Alf R. Thompson, November 1918‒April 1919 32 10. Allied Intervention in North Russia: Recollections of Major Edward MacMorland, May 1918‒October 1919 36 11. Li Dazhao: “The Victory of Bolshevism,” October 1918 40 12. “Manifesto of the Communist International to the Proletarians of the World,” March 1919 44 13. Secretary of State (Robert Lansing): Statement and Note to the Japanese Government Regarding the Withdrawal of American Military Forces from Siberia, January 17, 1920 48 14. The Soviet Union Embraces the Popular Front: Resolution of the Seventh World Congress of the Communist International, August 1935 51 15. Georgi Dimitrov, General Secretary of the Third Communist International: Telegram to the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, August 15, 1936 54 16. Mao Zedong: “Urgent Tasks of the Chinese Revolution since the Formation of the Kuomintang Chinese Communist Party United Front,” September 1937 58 17. Correspondence between Albert Einstein and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, August 2, 1939, and October 19, 1939 60 18. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, Protocols, and Clarifications, August 23, 1939‒January 10, 1941 62 19. Mao Zedong: “On the New Democracy,” January 1940 67 20. Summary of Report of Chinese Communist Party Politburo Official Zhou Enlai to the Comintern, January 1940 70 21. May Day Manifesto of the Executive Committee of the Communist International, May 1, 1940 78 22. Mao Zedong: Telegram to Georgi Dimitrov and Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky, November 7, 1940 83