Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 19

Leftist Reading

Episode 107:

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]
5. War Communism
Mobilising Industry

[Part 19 - This Week]
5. War Communism
The Food Dictatorship - 0:27
War Communism in Crisis - 18:32

[Part 20 - 21?]
5. War Communism

[Part 22 - 24?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

[Part 25 - 28?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 29?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:

16) 0:36
The following is based on Lars T. Lih, Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914–1921 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990); V. V. Kabanov, Krest’ianskoe khoziaistvo v usloviiakh ‘Voennogo Kommunizma’ (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).

17) 8:36
S. V. Iarov, Krest’ianin kak politik. Krest’ianstvo Severo-Zapada Rossii v 1918–1919gg. Politicheskoe myshlenie i massovyi protest (St Petersburg: RAN, 1999), 25.

18) 9:23
Iarov, Krest’ianin kak politik, 23.

19) 12:17
Kabanov, Krest’ianskoe khoziaistvo, 181.

20) 20:25
Mary McAuley, Bread and Justice: State and Society in Petrograd, 1917–1922 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).

21) 20:58
Il’iukhov, Zhizn’, 186.

22) 21:28
V. I. Lenin, ‘Declaration of the Rights of the Working and Exploited People’, <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/jan/03.htm>.

23) 24:46
Il’iukhov, Zhizn’, 47.

24) 25:25
Steven G. Marks, ‘The Russian Experience of Money, 1914–1924’, in Frame et al. (eds), Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 121–50 (136).

25) 27:59
G. E. Kornilov, ‘Formirovanie sistemy prodovol’stvennoi bezopasnosti naseleniia Rossii v pervoi polovine XX veka’, Rossiiskaia istoriia, 3 (2011), 91–101 (95).

26) 28:41
L. Futorianskii and V. Labuzov, Is istorii Orenburgskogo kraia v period vosstanovleniia, 1921–27gg. (Orenburg: Orenburgskii gos. universitet, 1998), 16.

27) 29:09
H. H. Fisher, The Famine in Soviet Russia, 1919–23 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1927), 292–3.