Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 30

Leftist Reading

Episode 118:

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 - 29]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture
Social Order Restored
Designing a Welfare State
The Arts and Utopia
Family and Gender Relations
Youth a Wavering Vanguard
Propaganda and Popular Culture

[Part 30 - This Week]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture
Cultural Revolution - 0:38
The Attack on Religion - 24:51
Epilogue - The “Great Break” 1928 - 1931 - 42:38

[Part 31 - 32?]
Conclusion

Figure 7.6 - 6:45
Kazakh peasants learn to read.

Figure 7.7 - 30:25
The seizure of church valuables, 1922.

Footnotes:

96) 0:54
Zenovia A. Sochor, Revolution and Culture: The Bogdanov–Lenin Controversy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988).

97) 2:39
Oktiabr’skaia revoliutsiia i fabzavkomy (The October Revolution and the Factory Committees), (2 vols), vol. 2, ed. S. A. Smith (Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1983), 89.

98) 4:58
Michael David-Fox, ‘What is Cultural Revolution?’, Russian Review, 58 (Apr. 1999), 181–201.

99) 5:46
Ella Winter, Red Virtue: Human Relationships in the New Russia (London: Gollancz, 1933), 35.

100) 6:48
Charles E. Clark, Uprooting Otherness: The Literacy Campaign in NEP-Era Russia (Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 2000).

101) 7:50
Charles E. Clark, ‘Uprooting Otherness: Bolshevik Attempts to Refashion Rural Russia via the Reading Rooms of the 1920s’, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 38:3–4 (1996), 305–29 (320).

102) 8:51
N. Rosnitskii, Litso derevni. Po materialam obsledovaniia 28 volostei i 32,730 krest’ianskikh khoziaistv Penzenskoi gubernii (Leningrad: Gos. Izd-vo, 1926), 103.

103) 10:00
Régine Robin, ‘Popular Literature of the 1920s: Russian Peasants as Readers’, in Fitzpatrick, Rabinowitch, and Stites (eds), Russia in the Era of NEP, 253–67, (256).

104) 10:39
Robin, ‘Popular Literature’, 261.

105) 11:26
Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia, 19.

106) 11:50
Antireligioznik, 10 (1926), 53.

107) 12:28
N. B. Lebina, Povsednevnaia zhizn’ sovetskogo goroda: normy i anomalii: 1920–1930 gody (St Petersburg: Neva, 1999), ch. 2, part 3.

108) 13:24
Andy Willimott, Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917–1932 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

109) 13:56
Hugh D. Hudson, Blueprints and Blood: The Stalinization of Soviet Architecture, 1917–37 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).

110) 14:15
Anatole Kopp, Town and Revolution: Soviet Architecture and City Planning, 1917–1935 (London: Thames and Hudson, 1970).

111) 15:21
Eric Aunoble, Le Communisme tout de suite! Le mouvement des communes en Ukraine soviétique (1919–20) (Paris: Les Nuits rouges, 2008).

112) 16:25
S. A. Smith, ‘The Social Meanings of Swearing: Workers and Bad Language in Late-Imperial and Early-Soviet Russia’, Past and Present, 160 (1998), 167–202.

113) 17:58
This and the statistics on baptisms and funerals are taken from N. S. Burmistrov, ‘Religioznye obriady pri rozhdeniiakh, smertiakh, brakakh po statistichekim dannym administrativnykh otdelov Mossoveta’, Antireligioznik, 6 (1929), 89–94.

114) 20:03
Golos naroda, 170–2.

115) 20:44
Catherine Merridale, Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Russia (London: Granta, 2000).

116) 22:53
N. N. Kozlova, Gorizonty povsednevnosti sovetskoi epokhi. Golosa iz khora (Moscow: RAN, 1996), 128; Litvak, ‘Zhizn’ krest’ianina’, 194.

117) 25:14
V. P. Buldakov, Krasnaia smuta: Priroda I posledstviia revoliutsionnogo nasiliia (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1997).

118) 25:42
Koenker and Bachman (eds), Revelations from the Russian Archives, 456–8.

119) 27:26
State Archive of the Russian Federation: ГАРФ, ф.Р-5407, оп.2, д.177, л.22.

120) 28:56
<http://www.grad-kirsanov.ru/article.php?id=orthodox.11>.

121) 31:25
N. A. Krivova, ‘The Events in Shuia: A Turning Point in the Assault on the Church’, Russian Studies in History, 46:2 (2007), 8–38.

122) 31:44
Edward E. Roslof, Red Priests: Renovationism, Russian Orthodoxy, and Revolution, 1905–1946 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).

123) 32:41
Gregory Freeze, ‘Counter-Reformation in Russian Orthodoxy: Popular Response to Religious Innovation, 1922–1925’, Slavic Review, 54:2 (1995), 305–39.

124) 34:10
A. Iu. Minakov, ‘Sektanty i revoliutsiia’, < http://dl.biblion.realin.ru/text/14_Disk_EPDS_-_vse_seminarskie_konspekty/Uchebnye_materialy_1/sekt_novosibirsk/Documents/sekt_revol.html>.

125) 35:41
Mustafa Tuna, Imperial Russia’s Muslims: Islam, Empire, and European Modernity, 1788–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 237.

126) 36:55
Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).

127) 39:08
Nina Tumarkin, Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983).

128) 40:49
N. Valentinov, Novaia ekonomicheskaia politika i krizis partii posle smerti Lenina (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1971), 91.

129) 49:49
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 224–5.

130) 50:05
Stephen Kotkin, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 198–237.

131) 50:29
Robert C. Tucker, Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928–1941 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990).