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Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 22


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Episode 110:

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 - 21]
5. War Communism
Mobilising Industry
The Food Dictatorship
War Communism in Crisis
Social Order Overturned
Fighting the Church
Worker Unrest

[Part 22 - This Week]
5. War Communism
Peasant Wars - 0:27
The Kronstadt Rebellion - 13:58
Discussion - 28:08

[Part 23 - 25?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy

[Part 26 - 29?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 30?]
Conclusion

Figure 5.2 - 14:15
The Red Army crosses the ice to crush the Kronstadt rebellion, 1921

Footnotes:

77) 0:44
The following draws on Erik Landis, Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the Russian Civil War (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008).

78) 3:04
V. V. Kondrashin, Krest’ianskaia vandeia v Povolzh’e 1918-21gg. (Moscow: Ianus-K, 2001), 40.

79) 3:30
Pavliuchenkov, Voennyi kommunizm, 129.

80) 3:57
I. V. Shvedov and V. S. Kobzov, ‘Revoliutsionnye komitety Urala v gody grazhdanskoi voiny (istoriko-pravovoi aspekt)’, Problemy pravy, 5:43 (2013), 199–205 (202).

81) 4:59
Iarov, Krest’ianin kak politik, 62.

82) 8:10
Landis, Bandits, 316.

83) 8:50
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84) 12:02
V. V. Moskovkin, ‘Vosstanie krest’ian v Zapadnoi Sibiri v 1921 godu’,Voprosy Istorii, 6 (1998), 46–64. For a fierce critique of this, see Vladimir I. Shishkin, ‘Zapadno-Sibirskii miatezh 1921 goda: dostizheniia i iskazheniia rossiiskoi istoriografii’, Acta Slavica Iaponica, 17 (2000), 100–29.

85) 13:26
Pavliuchenkov, Voennyi kommunizm, 136.

86) 14:17
Paul Avrich, Kronstadt, 1921 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970); Israel Getzler, Kronstadt, 1917–1921: The Fate of Soviet Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

87) 18:20
V. P. Naumov and A. A. Kosakovskii (eds), Kronshtadt 1921: Dokumenty (Moscow: Rossiia XX vek, 1997), 60.

88) 20:11
See Russian Wikipedia entry for Дело Таганцева.

89) 23:31
Barbara C. Allen, Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885–1938: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 245.

90) 25:41
Gimpel’son, Formirovanie, 193.

91) 26:44
Gimpel’son, Sovetskie upravlentsy, 171.

92) 27:59
E. A. Sikorskii, ‘Sovetskaia sistema politicheskogo kontrolia nad naseleniem v 1918–1920 godakh’, Voprosy Istorii, 5 (1998), 91–100 (98).

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