From here you can view a number of Russian history texts and sources available on-line in English. Choose from:

• The Emancipation Manifesto, 1861
• Sergei Witte on Russian economic policy
• The Manifesto of 17 October 1905
• The Stolypin Land Reform
• The Abdication of Nikolai II
• 'Dizzy with Success'
• No. of kolkhozy, USSR, 1929-40
• Great Patriotic War - Church & Party
• The Treatment of Dissidents during the 'Years of Stagnation'
• Perestroika - Gorbachev's ideas in 1987

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