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Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 18


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Episode 106:

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 - This Week]
5. War Communism - 0:21
Mobilising Industry - 6:39

[Part 19 - 21?]
5. War Communism

[Part 22 - 24?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

[Part 25 - 28?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 29?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:

1) 0:31
Diane Koenker, William Rosenberg, and Ronald Suny (eds), Party, State and Society in the Russian Civil War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).

2) 1:39
<http://statehistory.ru/1439/Finansovaya-politika-Sovetskoy-Rossii-v-1917-1921-gg>.

3) 3:01
Mauricio Borrero, Hungry Moscow: Scarcity and Urban Society in the Russian Civil War, 1917–1920 (New York: Peter Lang, 2003).

4) 3:39
A. A. Il’iukhov, Zhizn’ v epokhu peremen: material’noe polozhenie gorodskikh zhitelei v gody revoliutsii i grazhdanskoi voiny (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2007), 36.

5) 4:24
Viktor Shklovskii, A Sentimental Journey (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984), 175.

6) 5:16
Il’iukhov, Zhizn’, 169–70.

7) 5:26
Il’iukhov, Zhizn’, 83.

8) 6:05
Il’iukhov, Zhizn’, 178–9.

9) 6:38
Cited in Il’iukhov, Zhizn’, 168.

10) 7:01
Silvana Malle, The Economic Organization of War Communism 1918–1921 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

11) 9:17
V. I. Lenin, The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It, <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/ichtci/>.

12) 10:56
Smith, Red Petrograd, 224.

13) 14:27
Ronald Kowalski, The Bolshevik Party in Conflict: The Left Communist Opposition of 1918 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991).

14) 17:04
<http://histerl.ru/sovetskie_soyz/obrazovanie/promyshlennost.htm>.

15) 18:52
Thomas F. Remington, Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia: Ideology and Industrial Organization, 1917–1921 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984).

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