Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 31

Leftist Reading

Episode 119:

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 - 30]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 31 - This Week]
Conclusion (first half) - 0:23

[Part 32]
Conclusion

Footnotes:
1) 7:37
The phrase was Lenin’s. See V. I. Lenin, ‘Our Tasks and the Soviet of Workers’ Deputies’, 2–4 Nov. 1905, in Lenin Collected Works (Moscow: Progress, 1965), 10. 17–28.

2) 22:49
Lynne Viola, ‘Collectivization in the Soviet Union: Specificities and Modalities’, in Constantin Iordachi and Arnd Bauerkämper (eds), The Collectivization of Agriculture in Communist Eastern Europe: Comparison and Entanglements (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014), 49–78 (64–5).

3) 24:17
Ronald Suny suggests that empire is ‘a composite state in which the centre dominates the periphery to the latter’s disadvantage’. Ronald G. Suny, ‘Ambiguous Categories: States, Empires and Nations’, Post-Soviet Affairs, 11:2 (1995), 185–96 (187).

4) 25:55
Peter Holquist, ‘Violent Russia’.

5) 26:45
Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cambridge: Polity, 1989), 13; David L. Hoffmann, Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914–1939 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011).

6) 28:57
Landis, Bandits.

7) 29:16
Liudmila G. Novikova, ‘Russia’s Red Revolutionary and White Terror: A Provincial Perspective’, Europe-Asia Studies, 65:9 (2013), 1755–70.

8) 29:40
Felix Schnell, Räume des Schreckens: Gewalt und Gruppenmilitanz in der Ukraine, 1905–1933 (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2012); Stefan Plaggenborg, ‘Gewalt und Militanz in Sowjetrußland 1917–1930’, Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas, 44 (1996), 409–30.

9) 30:23
Stephen P. Frank, Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856–1914 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 245–8.