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Russian Revolution
- The First Provisional Government, 1917
- V. I. Lenin, "Tasks of the proletariat in the present revolution" (1917)
- Lenin, "Alliance between the workers and the exploited peasants" (1917)
- Lenin, "Draft decree on nationalization of banks..." (1917)
- Lenin, Speech on the Nationalisation of the Banks (1917)
- Lenin, "War and Revolution" (1917)
- First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, June 1917
- Lenin on the Organization of an Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counterrrevolution [Letter to Dzerzhinskii, December 19, 1917]
- Appeal of the Council of People's Commissars to the Moslems of Russia and the East, 3 December 1917
- The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918
- Lenin's Interview with the Manchester Guardian
- 1918 Constitution of the RSFSR
- Lenin--Anti-Religious Campaigns
- Lenin's Testament
Primary Source Collections
Decolonialization
Asia
- Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945
- The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, July 21, 1954
- The French "Loi-Cadre" of June 23, 1956
- British Government Policy Statement on Burma, 1945
- British White Paper on Palestine, 1939
- Declaration of Israel's Independence, 1948
- The Palestinian National Charter: Resolutions of the Palestine National Council, July 1-17, 1968
- Treaty Between Israel and Egypt, 1979
- Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization Agreement, 1993
Africa
- United Nations Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples,1960
- Kwame Nkrumah "I Speak for Freedom", 1961
- South Africa's Nuremberg Laws
- Old Shapes in New Rags: Instruments of Apartheid Rule
- Oliver Tambo, "Racial Problems in Africa" (1961)
- Oliver Tambo, "Apartheid - the Indictment" (1964)
- Oliver Tambo, "Nelson Mandela in 1965"
- Oliver Tambo, "Whites in a Changing South Africa" (1989)
- Communique of Mu`ammar al-Qadhafi (1969)
- Qadhafi Speaks on Africa (1998)
- Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front
- De Gaulle's Speech at Constantine, Algeria, October 3, 1958
- Douglas Dryden on the Situation in the Western Sahara
- Regional Accords Regarding Angola, Cuba and South Africa
China & India
The Americas