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Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 29


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Episode 117:

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]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture
Social Order Restored
Designing a Welfare State
The Arts and Utopia
Family and Gender Relations

[Part 29 - This Week]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture
Youth a Wavering Vanguard - 0:18
Propaganda and Popular Culture - 14:52

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

[Part 31?]
Conclusion

Figure 7.5 - 7:00
Jewish orphans in Ukraine, c.1922.

Footnotes:

66) 0:33
A. E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000).

67) 1:30
Catriona Kelly, Children’s World: Growing up in Russia, 1890–1991 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007).

68) 2:04
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917–1932 (London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2001).

69) 2:49
Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution, 9.

70) 4:30
Matthias Neumann, The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union (London: Routledge, 2011), 3.

71) 5:16
See Russian Wikipedia entry for: Взвейтесь кострами, синие ночи.

72) 6:21
Kem ia khochu byt’ Pioner 2 (1929).

73) 7:02
Alan M. Ball, And Now my Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918–1930 (London: University of California Press, 1994).

74) 8:41
Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution, 326.

75) 9:16
Neumann, Communist Youth League, 7; Isabel A. Tirado, ‘The Revolution, Young Peasants, and the Komsomol’s Anti-Religious Campaigns (1920–1928)’, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 26:1–3 (1999), 97–117 (97).

76) 9:33
A. Zalkind, ‘Kul’turnyi rost sovetskogo molodniaka’, Molodoi Bol’shevik, 19–20 (1927).

77) 11:39
Tirado, ‘The Revolution’, 105.

78) 11:52
Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia.

79) 12:51
Vladimir Slepkov, ‘Komsomol’skii zhargon i Komsomol’skii “obychai” ’, in A. Slepkov (ed.), Byt i molodezh, (2nd edn) (Moscow, 1926), 46–7.

80) 14:05
Krasnaia gazeta, 19 Mar. 1918, 4.

81) 15:01
Peter Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917–1929 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), 7.

82) 17:19
State Archive of the Russian Federation: ГАРФ, ф.А-2313 оп. 4 д. 139, l. 47.

83) 19:01
Elizabeth Wood, Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005).

84) 20:46
Michael S. Gorham, Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003).

85) 21:31
Figes, Peasant Russia, Civil War.

86) 23:39
M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981).

87) 24:02
K. Selishchev, Lazyk revoliutstonnoi epokhi: iz nabluzhdenii nad russkim iazykom poslednykh let, 1917–26 (Moscow, 1928).

88) 24:20
Smith, Language and Power, 113.

89) 25:07
Slepkov, ‘Komsomol’sku zhargon’, 46–7.

90) 27:51
Aleksandr Rozhkov, ‘Pochemu kuritsa povesilas’: Narodnye ostroslovtsy o zhizni v “bol’shevizii” ’, Rodina, 10 (1999), 60–4.

91) 29:38
G. F. Dobronozhenko, VChK-OGPU o politicheskh nastroeniiakh severnogo krest’ianstva 1921–27 godov (Syktyvkar: Syktyvkarskii gos. Universitet, 1995), 54.

92) 30:27
A. V. Golubev, ‘Sovetskoe obshchestvo i “voennye trevogi” 1920-kh godov’, Otechestvennaia istoriia, 1 (2008), 36–58 (38).

93) 30:44
Golubev, ‘Sovetskoe obshchestvo’, 50.

94) 31:39
‘And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.’ Revelation 13:16–17.

95) 32:19
F. M. Putintsev, Kulatskoe svetoprestavlenie (Moscow: Bezbozbnik, 1930), 13, 25.

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