New Book: Baku 1920: First Con

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Dear Mr. Seren

Enclosed is bibliographic information on 
Pathfinder Press' new book "To See the Dawn: Baku, First 
Congress of the Peoples of the East."  

"To See The Dawn" is available by direct order and 
through library wholesalers.

Thank you, Doug Hord

TO SEE THE DAWN
Baku, 1920-First Congress of the Peoples of
the East

344 pp., 16 pp. of photos, introduction,
maps, glossary, notes, index

cloth   $55.00    isbn 0-87348-768-0
paper   $19.95    isbn 0-87348-769-9

     How can peasants and workers in the colonial
world achieve freedom from imperialist
exploitation? 

     How can working people overcome divisions
incited by their national ruling classes and act
together for common class interests?

     These questions -- urgently posed today by the
devastating social and economic consequences of the
crisis in the world market system -- were addressed
in 1920 in an unprecedented conference of 2,000
delegates representing workers and peasants of more
than two dozen peoples of Asia.

     The congress was convened by the Communist
International in Baku, Azerbaijan, at a time when
mass revolutionary struggles in surrounding Central
Asia and in much of Europe, inspired by the victory
of the 1917 workers' and peasants' revolution in
Russia, gave hope of a new dawn for the world's
toilers.

     To See the Dawn contains the complete record
of the Baku congress, together with an extensive
selection of previously unpublished documents and
photographs.

     It is the fifth installment of the Pathfinder
series The Communist International in Lenin's Time.

	TABLE OF CONTENTS

8  Maps

11 Introduction

36 Call to the Baku congress

		Proceedings

45 Opening Rally
Zinoviev, 47; Radek, 52; Kun, 54; Quelch, 55; Rosmer, 56;
Reed, 57; Steinhardt, 58

60  Session 1.  Tasks of the Congress of the Peoples of the East
Narimanov, 60; Report by Zinoviev, 63

80 Session 2.  World political situation
Report by Radek, 80; Buniatzadeh, 96; Shakir, 99; Haydar 
Khan, 100

103 Session 3.  Discussion: Turkestan, Mountain republic
Narbutabekov, 103; Korkmasov, 109

114 Session 4.  Guest speakers; India; Turkey
Zinoviev, 114; Quelch, 116; Rosmer, 118; Fazil al-Qadir, 120;
Declaration by Indian Revolutionary Organization, 120;
Shablin, 121; Declaration by Enver Pasha, 122; Statement by
Ibrahim Tali, 126; Resolution on Turkey, 129; Zinoviev, 130;
Addendum: Speech by John Reed, 132

137 Session 5  National and colonial questions
Report by Pavlovich, 137; Matushev, 159; Ryskulov, 165

172 Session 6.  Soviets in the East; agrarian question
Report by Kun, 172; Theses on Soviet power in the East, 180;
Report by Skachko, 183; Theses on the agrarian question, 194

201 Session 7.  Council for Propaganda and Action; women of 
the East; concluding remarks
Resolution on Council for Propaganda and Action, 202; 
Zinoviev, 202; Rojabov, 203; Report by Najiye, 204; Bibinur,
207; Tajiyev, 209; Yegorov, 210; Narimanov, 212; Zinoviev, 213

221 Manifesto to the peoples of the East

234 Appeal to the workers of Europe, America, and Japan

242 Composition of the congress

		Appendixes

247 Appendix 1. Declaration of Soviet government on rights of
peoples of Russia

250 Appendix 2.  Appeal to all toiling Muslims of Russia and the
East (Council of People's Commissars)

253 Appendix 3.  Address to the Second All-Russia Congress of 
Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East (V.I. Lenin)

266 Appendix 4.  Theses on the national and colonial questions
(Second Congress of the Communist International)

273 Appendix 5.  A new world (Baku City Executive Committee,
Azerbaijan Communist Party)

277 Appendix 6.  Workers of Armenia have cemented an
alliance with toiling Azerbaijan (Delegation from Armenia)

282 Appendix 7.  Zionism: an exchange of views at the Baku
congress
a)  Thousands of Jewish toilers need land (Mountain Jews), 282
b)  Settle and colonize Palestine on communist principles
	(Jewish Communist Party/Poale Zion), 284
c)  The slogan must be "Hands off Palestine" (Jewish Sections,
	Communist Party of Russia), 288

]292 Appendix 8. Correcting abuses of Soviet power in Asia
a)  Corrections must be made, and made quickly (Twenty-one
	delegates to Baku congress), 292
b)  Communist tasks among Eastern peoples (Political Bureau,
	Communist Party of Russia), 302
c)  Appeal to Red Army soldiers fighting in the East 
	(Council of Propaganda and Action), 304

310 Notes

327 Glossary of names and terms

335 Index

	Photographs are found after page 174
Doug Hord					
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