Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 27

Leftist Reading

Episode 115:

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 - 26]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

[Part 27 - This Week]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture - 0:22
Social Order Restored - 2:20
Designing a Welfare State - 21:04

[Part 28 - 30?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 31?]
Conclusion

Figure 7.1 - 26:31
Young Pioneers demonstrate against the dangers of alcohol, 1929.
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Footnotes:

1) 0:34
On aspects of society and culture in NEP Russia see the two collections of essays: Fitzpatrick, Rabinowitch, and Stites (eds), Russia in the Era of NEP; Abbot Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites (eds), Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985).

2) 5:02
Sheila Fitzpatrick, ‘Ascribing Class: The Construction of Soviet Identity in Soviet Russia’, in S. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Stalinism: New Directions (London: Routledge, 1999), 20–46.

3) 5:57
Naselenie Rossii v XX veke, vol. 1, 149.

4) 7:52
Shanin, Awkward Class.

5) 8:41
Danilov, Rural Russia, 275.

6) 9:17
Merl, ‘Socio-economic Differentiation of the Peasantry’, in Davies (ed.), From Tsarism, 47–65.

7) 10:42
Moshe Lewin, Russian Peasants and Soviet Power (London: Allen and Unwin, 1968).

8) 11:17
I. I. Klimin, Rossiiskoe krest’ianstvo v gody novoi ekonomicheskoi politiki (1921–1927), chast’ pervaia (St Petersburg: Izd-do Politekhnicheskogo universiteta, 2007), 208.

9) 13:31
Golos naroda, 152.

10) 14:14
Alan M. Ball, Russia’s Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921–1929 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).

11) 16:51
Daniel T. Orlovsky, ‘The Antibureaucratic Campaign of the 1920s’ in Taranovski (ed.), Reform, 290–315.

12) 17:57
Krasil’nikov, Na izlomakh sotsial’noi struktury, table 1.

13) 19:47
V. I. Tikhonov, V. S. Tiazhel’nikova, and I. F. Iushin, Lishenie izbiratel’nykh prav v Moskve v 1920–1930-e gody (Moscow: Mosgorarkhiv, 1998), 132.

14) 21:44
Hoffman and Kotsonis (eds), Russian Modernity.

15) 21:57
Susan Gross Solomon and John F. Hutchinson (eds), Health and Society in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).

16) 22:50
A. Iu. Rozhkov, V krugu sverstnikov: Zhiznennyi mir molodogo cheloveka v sovetskoi Rossii 1920-kh godov (Krasnodar: OIPTs, 2002).

17) 24:05
Neil B. Weissman, ‘Origins of Soviet Health Administration: Narkomzdrav, 1918–1928’, in Solomon and Hutchinson (eds), Health and Society, 97–120.

18) 26:49
Neil Weissman, ‘Prohibition and Alcohol Control in the USSR: The 1920s Campaign against Illegal Spirits’, Soviet Studies, 38:3 (1986), 349–68.

19) 28:38
James Riordan Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977).

20) 29:12
Robert Edelman, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 46.

21) 29:39
Smena, 21 Aug. 1925, 5.

22) 31:20
Larry E. Holmes, The Kremlin and the Schoolhouse (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).

23) 32:23
Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility, ch. 1.

24) 32:45
For contrasting evaluations of experimentalism: V. L. Soskin, Obshchee obrazovanie v sovetskoi Rossii: pervoe desiatiletie, chast’ 2, 1923–1927gg. (Novosibirsk: Novosibirskii gos. universitet, 1999); Balashov, Shkola.

25) 34:44
William Partlett, ‘Breaching Cultural Worlds with the Village School: Educational Visions, Local Initiative, and Rural Experience at S. T. Shatskii’s Kaluga School System 1919–32’, Slavonic and East European Review, 82:4 (2004), 847–85 (859).

26) 36:15
Holmes, The Kremlin, 94.

27) 36:51
Shkaratan, Problemy, 289.

28) 37:14
Gimpel’son, Sovetskie upravlentsy; Chernykh, Stanovlenie Rossii sovetskoi.

29) 38:44
E. O. Kabo, Ocherki rabochego byta (Moscow: Iz-do VTsSPS, 1926), 175.

30) 39:21
Il’iukhov, Zhizn’, 151.

31) 39:52
William J. Chase, Workers, Society and the Soviet State: Labor and Life in Moscow, 1918–1929 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 185.

32) 40:29
Gimpel’son, Sovetskie upravlentsy, 205.

33) 41:36
Andrei Platonov, Chevengur, trans. Anthony Olcott (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1978), 135.

34) 42:14
Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963), 198.

35) 43:30
Vladimir Mayakovsky, ‘Vziatochniki’, <http://www.stihi-rus.ru/1/Mayakovskiy/7.htm>.