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Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 11


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Episode 99:

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 9-10]
3. From February to October 1917
Dual Power
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
The Aspirations of Soldiers and Workers
The Provisional Government in Crisis

[Part 11 - This Week]
Revolution in the Village - 0:25
The Nationalist Challenge - 10:43
Class, Nation and Gender - 26:04

[Part 12]
3. From February to October 1917

[Part 13 - 16?]
4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power

[Part 17 - 19?]
5. War Communism

[Part 20 - 22?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

[Part 23 - 26?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 27?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:
55) 0:32
Orlando Figes, Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917–1921 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989); John Channon, ‘The Peasantry in the Revolutions of 1917’, in E. R. Frankel et al. (eds), Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 105–30.

56) 2:41
Graeme J. Gill, Peasants and Government in the Russian Revolution (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979), 46–63, 75–88.

57) 3:29
J. L. H. Keep, The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization (New York: Norton, 1976), 179.

58) 5:35
Keep, Russian Revolution, 160.

59) 7:52
Channon, ‘The Landowners’, in Service (ed.), Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution, 120–46.

60) 8:47
Aaron B. Retish, Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914–1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008); John Channon, ‘The Bolsheviks and the Peasantry: The Land Question during the First Eight Months of Soviet Rule’, Slavonic and East European Review, 66:4 (1988), 593–624.

61) 10:20
V. V. Kabanov, Krest’ianskaia obshchina i kooperatsiia Rossii XX veka (Moscow: RAN, 1997), 81.

62) 10:59
Ronald G. Suny, ‘Nationalism and Class in the Russian Revolution: A Comparative Discussion’, in Frankel et al. (eds), Revolution in Russia, 219–46; Ronald G. Suny, The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution and the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993), ch. 2.

63) 11:21
Mark von Hagen, ‘The Great War and the Mobilization of Ethnicity in the Russian Empire’, in B. R. Rubin and Jack Snyder (eds), Post-Soviet Political Order: Conflict and State Building (London: Routledge, 1998), 34–57.

64) 12:58
John Reshetar, The Ukrainian Revolution, 1917–1920 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952); Bohdan Krawchenko, Social Change and National Consciousness in Twentieth-Century Ukraine (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985), ch. 1.

65) 15:35
Steven L. Guthier, ‘The Popular Base of Ukrainian Nationalism in 1917’, Slavic Review, 38:1 (1979).

66) 16:11
David G. Kirby, Finland in the Twentieth Century (London: Hurst, 1979), 46; Anthony F. Upton, The Finnish Revolution, 1917–1918 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1980), ch. 6.

67) 22:57
Ronald G. Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), ch. 9.

68) 24:06
Tadeusz Świętochowski, Russian Azerbaijan, 1905–1920: The Shaping of National Identity in a Muslim Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), ch. 4.

69) 29:23
Boris I. Kolonitskii, ‘Antibourgeois Propaganda and Anti-“Burzhui” Consciousness in 1917’, Russian Review, 53 (1994), 183–96 (187–8).

70) 29:44
Donald J. Raleigh, Revolution on the Volga: 1917 in Saratov (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986).

71) 30:20
T. A. Abrosimova, ‘Sotsialisticheskaia ideeia v massovom soznanii 1917g.’, in Anatomiia revoliutsii. 1917 god v Rossii: massy, partii, vlast’ (St Petersburg: Glagol’, 1994), 176–87 (177).

72) 30:46
Steinberg, Voices, 17.

73) 31:22
Michael C. Hickey, ‘The Rise and Fall of Smolensk’s Moderate Socialists: The Politics of Class and the Rhetoric of Crisis in 1917’, in Donald J. Raleigh (ed.), Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917–53 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), 14–35.

74) 32:57
Kolonitskii, ‘Antibourgeois Propaganda’, 190, 191.

75) 32:49
Kolonitskii, ‘Antibourgeois Propaganda’, 189.

76) 33:00
Figes and Kolonitskii, Interpreting, 154.

77) 34:00
A. Ia. Livshin and I. B. Orlov, ‘Revolutsiia i spravedlivost’: posleoktiabr’skie “pis’ma vo vlast’ ”, in 1917 god v sud’bakh Rossii i mira: Oktiabr’skaia revoliutsiia (Moscow: RAN, 1998), 254, 255, 259.

78) 34:12
Howard White, ‘The Urban Middle Classes’, in Service (ed.), Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution, 64–85.

79) 34:35
Bor’ba za massy v trekh revoliutsiiakh v Rossii: proletariat i srednie gorodskie sloi (Moscow: Mysl’, 1981), 19.

80) 35:18
O. N. Znamenskii, Intelligentsiia nakanune velikogo oktiabria (fevral’-oktiabr’ 1917g.) (Leningrad: Nauka, 1988), 8–9.

81) 35:53
Bor’ba za massy, 169.

82) 36:45
Michael C. Hickey, Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 387.

83) 38:05
Michael Hickey, ‘Discourses of Public Identity and Liberalism in the February Revolution: Smolensk, Spring 1917’, Russian Review, 55:4 (1996), 615–37 (620); V. V. Kanishchev, ‘ “Melkoburzhuaznaia kontrrevoliutsiia”: soprotivlenie gorodskikh srednikh sloev stanovleniiu “diktatury proletariata” (oktiab’r 1917–avgust 1918g.)’, in 1917 god v sud’bakh Rossii i mira, 174–87.

84) 39:14
Stockdale, Paul Miliukov, 258.

85) 40:53
Revoliutsionnoe dvizhenie v avguste 1917g. (razgrom Kornilovskogo miatezha) (Moscow: Izd-vo AN SSSR, 1959), 407.

86) 41:58
V. F. Shishkin, Velikii oktiabr’ i proletarskii moral’ (Moscow: Mysl’, 1976), 57.

87) 42:18
Steinberg, Voices, 113.

88) 44:32
O. Ryvkin, ‘ “Detskie gody” Komsomola’, Molodaia gvardiia, 7–8 (1923), 239–53 (244); Krupskaya, ‘Reminiscences of Lenin’.

89) 45:58
Ruthchild, Equality and Revolution, 227.

90) 46:36
Engel, Women in Russiā, 135; Ruthchild, Equality, 231.

91) 47:49
Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyard, Women and Work in Russia, 1880–1930 (Harlow: Longman, 1998), 167.

92) 48:31
Engel, Women in Russia, 141.

93) 49:01
Sarah Badcock, ‘Women, Protest, and Revolution: Soldiers’ Wives in Russia during 1917’, International Review of Social History, 49 (2004), 47–70.

94) 49:19
Steinberg, Voices, 98.

95) 50:03
D. P. Koenker and W. G. Rosenberg, Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989), 314.

96) 50:21
Smith, Red Petrograd, 193.

97) 51:37
Z. Lilina, Soldaty tyla: zhenskii trud vo vremia i posle voiny (Perm’: Izd-vo Petrogradskogo Soveta, 1918), 8.

98) 51:59
L. G. Protasov, Vserossiiskoe uchreditel’noe sobranie: istoriia rozhdeniia i gibeli (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1997), 233.

99) 52:31
Beate Fieseler, ‘The Making of Russian Female Social Democrats, 1890–1917’, International Review of Social History, 34 (1989), 193–226.

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