Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 21

Leftist Reading

Episode 109:

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 - 20]
5. War Communism
Mobilising Industry
The Food Dictatorship
War Communism in Crisis
Social Order Overturned
Fighting the Church

[Part 21 - This Week]
5. War Communism
Worker Unrest - 0:31

[Part 22?]
5. War Communism

[Part 23 - 25?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

[Part 26 - 29?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 30?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:

57) 1:36
S. G. Strumilin, ‘Obshchii obzor Severnoi oblasti’, Materialy po statistike truda Severnoi oblasti, vol. 1 (Petrograd, 1918), 18–19.

58) 2:37
Diane P. Koenker, ‘Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution’, in Koenker, Rosenberg, and Suny (eds), Party, State and Society, 81–104.

59) 3:09
V. Iu. Cherniaev et al. (eds.), Piterskie rabochie i ‘diktatura proletariata’, oktiabr’ 1917–1929: ekonomicheskie konflikty, politicheskii protest (St Petersburg: BLITS, 2000), 13.

60) 5:51
Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), 26.

61) 8:12
Jonathan Aves, Workers against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship (London and New York: Tauris, 1996), 57.

62) 10:22
David Priestland, Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), ch. 1.

63) 10:36
D. O. Churakov, Revoliutsiia, gosudarstvo, rabochii protest: formy, dinamika i priroda massovykh vystuplenii rabochikh v sovetskoi Rossii, 1917–1918gg. (Moscow: Rossiiskaia politicheskaia entsiklopediia, 2004).

64) 11:25
V. A. Koklov, ‘Men’sheviki na vyborakh v gorodskie sovety tsentral’noi Rossii vesnoi 1918g’, in Men’sheviki i men’shevizm: sbornik statei (Moscow: Izd-vo Tip. Novosti, 1998), 52.

65) 12:51
Iarov, Gorozhanin kak politik, 24; Brovkin, Behind the Front Lines, 161.

66) 13:22
Pavliuchenkov, Voennyi kommunizm v Rossii, 146.

67) 15:35
Jon Smele, Civil War in Siberia: the Anti-Bolshevik Government of Admiral Kolchak, 1918–1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 337, 609.

68) 16:42
Stephen Wheatcroft, ‘Soviet Statistics of Nutrition and Mortality during Times of Famine’, Cahiers du monde russe, 38:4 (1997), 529; Pavliuchenkov, Voennyi kommunizm v Rossii, 146.

69) 16:55
B. N. Kazantsev, ‘Materialy gosudarstvennykh, partiinykh i profsoiuznykh organov o vystupleniiakh rabochikh na predpriiatiakh Sovetskoi Rossii v 1918–28gg.’, in Iu. I. Kir’ianov, W. Rosenberg, and A. N. Sakharov (eds), Trudovye konflikty v sovetskoi Rossii 1918–1929gg. (Moscow: Editorial URSS, 1998), 38–66 (48).

70) 17:35
Iarov, Gorozhanin kak politik, 49.

71) 18:44
Pavliuchenkov, Voennyi kommunizm, 157.

72) 20:49
Cherniaev et al. (eds), Piterskie rabochie, 177–83; Krasnaia gazeta, 15 March 1919, 2.

73) 22:24
Cherniaev et al. (eds), Piterskie rabochie, 18.

74) 23:08
Aves, Workers against Lenin, 24.

75) 23:43
Cherniaev et al. (eds), Piterskie rabochie, 274.

76) 24:33
A. Vyshinskii, ‘Uroki odnoi konferentsii’, Pravda, 8 Feb. 1921, 1; Simon Pirani, The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–23: Soviet Workers and the New Economic Policy (London: Routledge, 2008).