Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 17

Leftist Reading

Episode 105:

This week we’re continuing Russia in Revolution An Empire in Crisis 1890 - 1928 by S. A. Smith

[Part 1]
Introduction

[Part 2-5]
1. Roots of Revolution, 1880s–1905

[Part 6-8]
2. From Reform to War, 1906-1917

[Part 9-12]
3. From February to October 1917

[Part 13 - 16]
4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power
The Expansion of Soviets
National Self-Determination and the Reconstitution of Empire
Violence and Terror
The Suppression of the Socialist Opposition

[Part 17 - This Week]
4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power
One Party Dictatorship in Action - 0:20
Discussion - 23:42

[Part 18 - 20?]
5. War Communism

[Part 21 - 23?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

[Part 24 - 27?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 28?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:

77) 2:44
Gimpel’son, Formirovanie, 78.

78) 6:01
Sovetskaia derevnia glazami VChK-OGPU, vol. 1:, 1918–22: Dokumenty i materialy (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1998), 32.

79) 6:42
A. I. Chernykh, Stanovlenie Rossii Sovetskoi: 20-e gody v zerkale sotsiologii (Moscow: Pamiatniki Istoricheskoi Mysli, 1998), 262; Richard Sakwa, Soviet Communists in Power: A Study of Moscow during the Civil War, 1918–21 (New York: St Martin’s, 1988).

80) 7:22
State Archive of Perm’ Oblast’, ГАПО ф. 201, оп.1, д.11, л.7.

81) 8:08
Robert V. Daniels, The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960).

82) 9:30
James Harris, ‘Stalin as General Secretary: The Appointments Process and the Nature of Stalin’s Power’, in Sarah Davies and James Harris (eds), Stalin: A New History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 66.

83) 12:58
G. Gimpel’son, Sovetskie upravlentsy, 1917–1920gg. (Moscow: RAN, 1998), 167.

84) 13:33
I. S. Rat’kovskii and M. V. Khodiakov, Istoriia sovetskoi Rossii (St Petersburg: Lan’, 1999), 54.

85) 14:01
S. A. Pavliuchenkov, Voennyi kommunizm v Rossii: vlast’ i massy (Moscow: RKT-Istoriia, 1997), 189.

86) 14:31
I. V. Pavlova, Stalinizm: Stanovlenie mekhanizma vlasti (Novosibirsk: Sibirskii khronograf, 1993), 50.

87) 15:09
Gimpel’son, Sovetskie upravlentsy, 203.

88) 19:15
Bertram D. Wolfe, Strange Communists I Have Known (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1966), 88.

89) 20:23
Balabanoff, Impressions of Lenin, 102–3.

90) 21:03
<https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1919/terrcomm/ch08b.htm#s6>.

91) 22:10
<https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/ch02.htm>.

92) 23:01
Service, Lenin: A Biography, 299; V. I. Lenin, ‘Second All-Russian Congress of Miners’, 23 Jan. 1921, <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/jan/23.htm>.