Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 9

Leftist Reading

Episode 97:

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 - This Week]
3. From February to October 1917 - 0:30
Dual Power - 8:48

[Part 9 - 11?]
3. From February to October 1917

[Part 12 - 15?]
4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power

[Part 16 - 18?]
5. War Communism

[Part 19 - 21?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

[Part 22 - 25?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 26?]
Conclusion

Figure 3.1 - 6:12
[see the image here]
Caption: Soldiers’ wives demonstrate for an increased ration. Their banners read: ‘An increased ration to the families of soldiers, the defenders of freedom and of a people’s peace’; and ‘Feed the children of the defenders of the motherland’.

Footnotes:
1) 0:50
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, The February Revolution: Petrograd 1917 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981).

2) 3:06
Cited Figes, People’s Tragedy, 323.

3) 4:27
A. B. Nikolaev, Revoliutsiia i vlast’: IV Gosudarstvennaia duma 27 fevralia–3 marta 1917 goda (St Petersburg: Izd-vo RGPU, 2005).

4) 6:05
Pethybridge, Witnesses, 76, 78, 119–20.

5) 6:41
Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), ch. 1; Pavel G. Rogoznyi, ‘The Russian Orthodox Church during the First World War and Revolutionary Turmoil, 1914–1921’, in Murray Frame et al. (eds), Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914–22, 1 (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2014), 349–76.

6) 7:16
Nadezhda Krupskaya, Reminiscences of Lenin, <https://www.marxists.org/archive/krupskaya/works/rol/rol22.htm>.

7) 7:41
I. L. Arkhipov, ‘Obshchestvennaia psikhologiia petrogradskikh obyvatelei v 1917 godu’, Voprosy istorii, 7 (1994), 49–58 (52).

8) 9:05
Rex Wade, The Russian Revolution, 1917 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), ch. 3.

9) 9:48
V. I. Startsev, Vnutrenniaia politika vremennogo pravitel’stva pervogo sostava (Leningrad: Nauka, 1980), 116.

10) 11:21
William G. Rosenberg, Liberals in the Russian Revolution: The Constitutional Democratic Party, 1917–1921 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1974).

11) 11:50
Starstev, Vnutrenniaia politika, 208–45. I am indebted to Ian Thatcher for this point.

12) 13:19
Ziva Galili y Garcia, The Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution: Social Realities and Political Strategies (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989).

13) 14:47
William G. Rosenberg, ‘Social Mediation and State Construction(s) in Revolutionary Russia’, Social History, 19:2 (1994), 168–88.

14) 15:37
For the Soviet proclamation see Alfred Golder (ed.), Documents of Russian History, 1914–1917 (New York: The Century Co., 1927), 325–6.

15) 16:31
Rex A. Wade, The Russian Search for Peace: February to October 1917 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1969).

16) 16:37
Starstev, Vnutrenniaia politika, 204.

17) 17:18
G. A. Gerasimenko, Pervy akt narodovlastiia v Rossii: obshchestvennye ispolnitel’nye komitety 1917g. (Moscow: Nika, 1992), 82.

18) 17:34
Gerasimenko, Pervy akt, 106.

19) 18:31
William G. Rosenberg, ‘The Russian Municipal Duma Elections of 1917’, Soviet Studies, 21:2 (1969), 131–63, 157.

20) 19:07
Nikolai N. Smirnov, ‘The Soviets’, in Edward Acton et al. (eds), Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921 (London: Arnold, 1997), 429–37 (432).

21) 20:50
Smirnov, ‘Soviets’, 434.

22) 21:16
V. I. Lenin, State and Revolution, <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev>.

23) 22:14
A. F. Zhukov, Ideino-politicheskii krakh eserovskogo maksimalizma (Leningrad: Izd-vo Leningradskogo universiteta, 1979), 49.

24) 23:05
Leopold H. Haimson et al. (eds), Men’sheviki v 1917 godu (3 vols), vol. 2 (Moscow: Progress-Akademiia, 1995), 48–9.

25) 24:25
Michael Melancon, ‘The Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1917–1920’, in Acton et al. (eds), Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 281–90; Kh. M. Astrakhan, Bol’sheviki i ikh politicheskie protivniki v 1917g. (Leningrad: Leninizdat, 1973), 233.