The manual contains orders from various classes to the States General in 1789, documents reflecting the socio-political transformations carried out during the revolution, the process of formation of the bourgeois state and the policies of revolutionaries in the field of culture: legislative and administrative acts, speeches of prominent figures of the revolution and excerpts from them writings, popular petitions and minutes of meetings of democratic organizations. A significant part of the documents, including those from French archives, have been translated into Russian for the first time.

ContentsPrefaceIntroductory section. MANDATORIES TO THE STATES GENERAL 1789 Section I. SOCIO-POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE REVOLUTION AND FORMATION OF THE BOURGEOIS STATE. CULTURAL POLICYI. ESTABLISHING CIVIL EQUALITY. REFORM OF CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. CREATION OF A NEW JUDICIAL SYSTEM§ 1. From the beginning of the revolution to the overthrow of the monarchya) Abolition of the class systemb) Elimination of absolutism and the establishment of a constitutional monarchyiv) Municipal reformag) Reform of the judicial systemd) Constitution of September 3, 1791§ 2. From the overthrow of the monarchy to the coming to power of the Jacobins) The overthrow of the monarchy, the establishment of a republic and the struggle around further transformations of the central governmentb) Reforms of local government. Paris Commune and sections c) Changes in judicial legislation. The beginning of the formation of a state system of revolutionary terror§ 3. Jacobin Republica) The Jacobins are in power. Constitution of June 24, 1793b) Temporary revolutionary order of governmentc) Jacobin terror§ 4. After Thermidora) Thermidorian Convention and the liquidation of the temporary revolutionary order of governmentb) Reorganization of local governmentc) Elimination of the system of revolutionary terrorism) Constitution of the French Republic 5 Fructidor III (August 22 1795)II. CREATION OF A NATIONAL ARMYIII. POLICY IN RELATION TO RELIGION AND CHURCH. CIVIL ORGANIZATION OF THE CLERGYIV. CULTURAL POLICYa) Public educationb) Art, literature, pressc) Attitude to monuments of the pastd) Revolutionary festivities and ritualsd) Republican calendarPublication of sources on the history of the Great French Revolution in RussianList of abbreviations adopted when indicating the sources usedName index