Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 25

Leftist Reading

Episode 113:

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]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy
New Economic Policy and Agriculture
New Economic Policy and Industry
New Economic Policy and Labour

[Part 25 - This Week]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy
The Inner Party Struggle - 0:30
The Party State - 25:46
Instituting Law - 40:20

[Part 26?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

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

[Part 31?]
Conclusion

Figure 6.1 - 4:33
Soviet leaders in 1919. From left, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Mikhail Kalinin.
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Footnotes:

54) 1:33
V. P. Vilkova (ed.), VKP(b): vnutripartiinaia bor’ba v dvadtsatye gody: dokumenty i materialy, 1923g. (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2004).

55) 2:05
<https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/party-congress/10th/16.htm>.

56) 2:53
Gimpel’son, Formirovanie, 177.

57) 5:38
Moshe Lewin, Lenin’s Last Struggle (London: Faber, 1969).

58) 11:05
For an interesting interpretation of the inner-party conflict that sees it as rooted in an underlying difference between ‘revivalist’ and ‘technicist’ types of Bolshevism, see Priestland, Stalinism, ch. 2.

59) 12:06
Richard B. Day, Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).

60) 13:07
Stephen F. Cohen, Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938 (New York: Knopf, 1973).

61) 14:31
David R. Stone, Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union 1926–1933 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000).

62) 15:24
G. L. Olekh, Krovnye uzy: RKP(b) i ChK/GPU v pervoi polovine 1920-x godov: mekhanizm vzaimootnoshenii (Novosibirsk: NGAVT 1999), 92–3.

63) 18:08
Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928 (London: Penguin, 2015), 432.

64) 18:31
Harris, ‘Stalin as General Secretary, in Davies and Harris (eds), Stalin: A New History, 63–82 (69).

65) 20:!2
Excellent biographies of Stalin include Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2004); Oleg V. Khlevniuk, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015).

66) 22:14
I. V. Stalin, ‘The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists’, <https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/12.htm>.

67) 23:27
James Harris, ‘Stalin and Stalinism’, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, Oxford Handbooks Online,1–21 (6).

68) 24:18
Alfred J. Rieber, ‘Stalin as Georgian: The Formative Years’, in Davies and Harris (eds), Stalin: A New History, 18–44.

69) 24:34
E. A. Rees, Political Thought from Machiavelli to Stalin (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004), 222.

70) 25:17
‘Stalin i krizis proletarskoi diktatury’, <http://scepsis.net/library/id_941.html>.

71) 27:09
R. W. Davies, The Industrialization of Soviet Russia, vol. 3: The Soviet Economy in Turmoil (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1929), xxiii.

72) 27:55
Heinzen says 70,000 were employed in the Commissariat of Agriculture by the end of the decade. Heinzen, Inventing, 2.

73) 29:13
Michael Voslenskii, Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class (New York: Doubleday, 1984); Harris, ‘Stalin as General Secretary’, 69.

74) 31:15
Shkaratan, Problemy, 272.

75) 32:00
Golos Naroda, 199.

76) 32:50
Graeme Gill, Origins of the Stalinist Political System (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 118.

77) 34:28
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union, 1921–1934 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

78) 38:31
E. A. Wood, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997).

79) 39:10
Wendy Z. Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917–1936 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 111.

80) 39:35
Olekh, Krovnye uzy, 90.

81) 40:09
Golos naroda, 152.

82) 41:19
Nikita Petrov, ‘Les Transformations du personnel des organes de sécurité soviétiques, 1922–1953’, Cahiers du monde russe, 22:2 (2001), 375–96 (376).

83) 41:47
S. A. Krasil’nikov, Na izlomakh sotsial’noi struktury: marginaly v poslerevoliutsionnom rossiiskom obshchestve (1917—konets 1930-kh godov) (Novosibirsk: NGU, 1998), table 4.

84) 42:33
V. K. Vinogradov, ‘Ob osobennostiakh informatsionnykh materialov OGPU kak istochnik po istorii sovetskogo obshchestva’, in ‘Sovershenno sekretno’: Liubianka- Stalinu o polozhenii v strane (1922–1934), vol. 1, part 1: 1922–23 (Moscow: RAN, 2001), 31–76

85) 43:42
Roger Pethybridge, One Step Backwards, Two Steps Forward: Soviet Society and Politics in the New Economic Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990).

86) 44:44
Solomon, Soviet Criminal Justice.

87) 45:38
Neil B. Weissman, ‘Local Power in the 1920s: Police and Administrative Reform’, in Theodore Taranovski (ed.), Reform in Modern Russian History (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center and Cambridge University Press, 1995), 265–89.

88) 45:59
Neil Weissman, ‘Policing the NEP Countryside’, in Sheila Fitzpatrick, A. Rabinowitch, and R. Stites (eds), Russia in the Era of NEP (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), 174–91 (177); R. S. Mulukaev and N. N. Kartashov, Militsiia Rossii (1917–1993gg.) (Orël: Oka, 1995), 43.

89) 46:48
Joan Neuberger, Hooliganism: Crime, Culture and Power in St Petersburg, 1900–1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).

90) 47:09
Tracy McDonald, Face to the Village: The Riazan Countryside under Soviet Rule, 1921–1930 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011), 90.

91) 47:41
David A. Newman, ‘Criminal Strategies and Institutional Concerns in the Soviet Legal System: An Analysis of Criminal Appeals in Moscow Province, 1921–28’, Ph.D. dissertation, UCLA (2013), 183.