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. Contents PrefaceSection II. SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLICY OF THE REVOLUTION§ 1. From the beginning of the revolution to the overthrow of the monarchya) Agrarian policyb) Establishment of freedom of trade and entrepreneurship. Policy towards workersc) Transformation of the tax systemd) Financial policy, creation of paper money§ 2. From the overthrow of the monarchy to the coming to power of the Jacobins) Agrarian policyb) Food issue and the problem of regulation of tradec) Measures to combat inflation§ 3. Jacobin Republica ) Agrarian policy. Decrees of Ventoise b) Solution of the food issue and maximum. Measures relating to industry and trade. Policy towards workersc) Measures to combat inflation and forced loans§ 4. From Thermidor to Brumerois) Agrarian policyb) Food question. Measures relating to industry and trade. Return to free enterprise c) Paper money and return to metal circulation. Tax policy

Section III. POPULAR MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL ASPIRATIONS OF THE PEOPLE. PEASANT MOVEMENTS DURING THE REVOLUTION§ 1. Peasants against the seigniorial systema) “Great fear” and uprising in the countryside (July - August 1789)b) Anti-feudal movement in 1790-1794c) Struggle for communal lands§ 2. Agrarian equalization movement in the countrysidea) The struggle around the division of communal landsb) Equalization demands of peasant petitions§ 3. Peasant food movementa) Food unrest and “people's taxation” in 1790-1792b) Peasants and the food question in the 2nd year of the Republic§ 4. Anti-revolutionary peasant movement in the West of FranceII. CITY POPULAR PERFORMANCES. “REVOLUTIONARY DAYS” IN PARIS§ 1. July 14, 1789§ 2. October 5-6, 1789§ 3. August 10, 1792§ 4. Events of May 31 - June 2, 1793. The popular movement in Paris during Jacobin rule§ 5. Germinal and Prairial III.a) Events of 12 Germinal III.b) Events of 1 Prairial III.§ 6. “Conspiracy in the name of equality”List of abbreviations adopted when indicating the sources usedName index