Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 26

Leftist Reading

Episode 114:

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 - 17]
4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power

[Part 18 - 22]
5. War Communism

[Part 23 - 25]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy
New Economic Policy and Agriculture
New Economic Policy and Industry
New Economic Policy and Labour
The Inner Party Struggle
The Party State
Instituting Law

[Part 26 - This Week]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy
Governing the Countryside - 0:31
Foreign Policy and Promoting Revolution - 13:39
Nation Building - 29:31
The Limits of NEP - 37:48
Discussion - 41:26

[Part 27 - 30?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 31?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:

92) 2:02
Priestland, Stalinism, 150.

93) 2:13
Velikanova, Popular Perceptions, 138.

94) 3:08
T. V. Pankova-Kozochkina, ‘Rabotniki sel’skikh sovetov 1902-kh godov: nomenklaturnye podkhody bol’shevikov i sotsial’nye trebovaniia krest’ianstva (na materialakh Iuga Rossii)’, Rossiiskaia istoriia, 6 (2011), 136–46.

95) 3:40
Golos naroda, 215.

96) 4:11
Olga A. Narkiewicz, The Making of the Soviet State Apparatus (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1970), 61.

97) 4:42
I. N. Il’ina, Obshchestvennye organizatsii Rossii v 1920-e gody (Moscow: RAN, 2000), 72.

98) 5:02
A. A. Kurënyshev, Vserossiiskii krest’anskii soiuz, 1905–1930 (Moscow: AIRO-XX, 2004).

99) 5:35
Velikanova, Popular Perceptions, 158.

100) 6:01
McDonald, Face to the Village, 104–5.

101) 6:30
Diane P. Koenker and Ronald D.Bachman (eds), Revelations from the Russian Archives: Documents in English Translation (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1997), 38.

102) 7:24
Gill, Origins, 113.

103) 7:56
M. Ia. Fenomenov, Sovremennaia derevnia. Opyt kraevedcheskogo obsledovaniia odnoi derevni, vol. 2 (Leningrad: Goz. izd-vo, 1925), 39.

104) 9:09
Litvak, “Zhizn’ krest’ianina’, 194.

105) 9:30
D. Kh. Ibragimova, NEP i perestroika: massovoe soznanie sel’skogo naseleniia v usloviiakh perekhoda k rynku (Moscow: Pamiatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 1997).

106) 11:47
Litvak, ‘Zhizn’ krest’ianina’, 194.

107) 14:24
Tooze, Deluge, 11.

108) 22:09
Alexander Vatlin and S. A. Smith, ‘The Comintern’, Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), ch. 10.

109) 23:55
John Riddell (ed.), To See the Dawn: Baku, 1920—First Congress of the Peoples of the East (New York: Pathfinder, 1993), 45.

110) 24:12
Riddell, To See the Dawn, 70.

111) 24:39
H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows (New York: Doran, 1921), 96.

112) 25:01
Stephen White, ‘Communism and the East: The Baku Congress, 1920’, Slavic Review, 33:3 (1974), 492–514 (501).

113) 25:25
Riddell, To See the Dawn, 204–7.

114) 25:46
E. H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution, vol. 2 (London: Macmillan 1952), 265.

115) 27:11
S. A. Smith, A Road is Made: Communism in Shanghai, 1920–1927 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000).

116) 28:01
Jon Jacobson, When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), 50.

117) 29:29
Velikanova, Popular Perceptions, ch. 1.

118) 30:35
Lewin, Lenin’s Last Struggle, ch. 4.

119) 32:49
Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2005), 229, 331.

120) 33:39
Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).

121) 35:43
Yuri Slezkine, ‘The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism’, Slavic Review, 53:2 (1994), 415.

122) 37:05
Michael G. Smith, Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917–1953 (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), 125, 134.