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Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 6
Episode 94:
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 - This Week]
2. From Reform to War, 1906-1917 - 0:22
Prospects for Reform - 07:36
[Part 7 - 8?]
2. From Reform to War, 1906–1917
[Part 9 - 11?]
3. From February to October 1917
[Part 12 - 15?]
4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power
[Part 16 - 18?]
5. War Communism
[Part 19 - 21?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy
[Part 22 - 25?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture
[Part 26?]
Conclusion
Footnotes:
1) 2:01
Abraham Ascher, P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001).
2) 3:53
Terence Emmons, The Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983).
3) 4:53
Geoffrey A. Hosking, The Russian Constitutional Experiment: Government and Duma, 1907–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).
4) 5:23
George Gilbert, The Radical Right in Imperial Russia (London: Routledge, 2015).
5) 6:29
More than 26,000 people were executed, exiled, or imprisoned for political offences between 1907 and 1909: Peter Waldron, Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia (London: UCL Press, 1998), 63.
6) 7:25
Anna Geifman, Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894–1917 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
7) 8:34
Linda H. Edmondson, Feminism in Russia, 1900–17 (London: Heinemann, 1984); Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Equality and Revolution: Women’s Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905–1917 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).
8) 9:16
Susan Morrissey, ‘Subjects and Citizens, 1905–1917’, in Simon Dixon (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History (Oxford: Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013).
9) 9:53
Eric Lohr, ‘The Ideal Citizen and Real Subject in Late Imperial Russia’, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 7:2 (2006), 173–94.
10) 11:28
Joseph Bradley, Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
11) 12:42
There are two excellent introductions to the debate on where Russia was going after 1905: R. B. McKean, Between the Revolutions: Russia, 1905 to 1917 (London: The Historical Association, 1998); Ian D. Thatcher, Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects: Essays in Honour of R. B. McKean (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).
12) 15:46
Hosking, Constitutional Experiment; Waldron, Between Two Revolutions.
13) 16:31
Joshua A. Sanborn, Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905–1925 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003).
14) 17:54
D. C. B. Lieven, Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia (London: Allen Lane, 2015), 176, 180.
15) 18:46
Peter Gatrell, Government, Industry, and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 152–5.
16) 18:57
David Stevenson, Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904–1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 7. ‘Only Russia could keep up with [Germany] and that inefficiently.’ Alan J. P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954), xxviii.
17) 19:17
Melissa K. Stockdale, Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1889–1918 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996), 186–8.
18) 20:26
Waldron, Between Two Revolutions, 171–3.
19) 21:00
Hosking, Constitutional Experiment, 106.
20) 22:11
Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992).
21) 22:58
Clowes, Kassow, and, West (eds), Between Tsar and People.
22) 23:18
McClelland, Autocrats, 52.
23) 24:02
Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985).
24) 24:25
Louise McReynolds, News under Russia’s Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991), 225.
25) 24:53
McReynolds, News, 237, 234.
26) 25:53
James von Geldern and Louise McReynolds, Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779–1917 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), xx.
27) 28:05
Cited in Engel, Between the Fields and the City, 155.
28) 29:24
Wayne Dowler, Russia in 1913 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010), 112.
29) 30:19
R. E. Zelnik (trans. and ed.), A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986), 71.
30) 30:57
D. N. Zhbankov, Bab’ia storona: statistiko-etnograficheskii ocherk (Kostroma, 1891), 27.
31) 31:24
See the photographs in Christine Ruane, The Empire’s New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700–1917 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 197, 202.
32) 32:28
Ascher, Revolution of 1905, vol. 2, 134.
33) 33:35
O. S. Porshneva, Mentalitet i sotsial’noe povedenie rabochikh, krest’ian i soldat Rossii v period pervoi mirovoi voiny (1914-mart 1918g) (Ekaterinburg: UrO RAN, 2000), 146.
34) 33:57
Heather Hogan, Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State in St Petersburg, 1890–1914 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 161–74.
35) 35:21
Tim McDaniel, Autocracy, Capitalism, and Revolution in Russia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
36) 36:53
Leopold H. Haimson and Ronald Petrusha, ‘Two Strike Waves in Imperial Russia, 1905–1907, 1912–1914’, in Leopold H. Haimson and Charles Tilly, Strikes, Wars and Revolutions in an International Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge Uuniversity Press, 1989), 101–66 (125).
37) 39:57
A. P. Korelin and S. V. Tiutukin, Pervaia revoliutisiia v Rossii: vzgliad cherez stoletie (Moscow: Pamiatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 2005), 536.
38) 40:19
N. D. Postnikov, Territorial’noe razmeshchenie i chislennost’ politicheskikh partii Rossii (1907–fevral’ 1917) (Moscow: IIU MGOU, 2015).
39) 42:03
Postnikov, Territorial’noe razmeshchenie, 56.
40) 42:26
Postnikov, Territorial’noe razmeshchenie, 56; Michael S. Melancon, Stormy Petrels: The Socialist Revolutionaries in Russia’s Labor Organizations, 1905–1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1988).
41) 44:43
Konstantin N. Morozov, ‘Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionnerov vo vremia i posle revoliutsii 1905–1907 gg.’, Cahiers du monde russe, 48:2 (2007), 301–30.
42) 45:08
Postnikov, Territorial’noe razmeshchenie, 56.
43) 46:48
Reginald E. Zelnik (ed.), Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections (Berkeley: International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1999).
44) 47:16
A. Buzinov, Za Nevskoi Zastavoi (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Iz-vo, 1930), 29.
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Episode 94:
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 - This Week]
2. From Reform to War, 1906-1917 - 0:22
Prospects for Reform - 07:36
[Part 7 - 8?]
2. From Reform to War, 1906–1917
[Part 9 - 11?]
3. From February to October 1917
[Part 12 - 15?]
4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power
[Part 16 - 18?]
5. War Communism
[Part 19 - 21?]
6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy
[Part 22 - 25?]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture
[Part 26?]
Conclusion
Footnotes:
1) 2:01
Abraham Ascher, P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001).
2) 3:53
Terence Emmons, The Formation of Political Parties and the First National Elections in Russia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983).
3) 4:53
Geoffrey A. Hosking, The Russian Constitutional Experiment: Government and Duma, 1907–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973).
4) 5:23
George Gilbert, The Radical Right in Imperial Russia (London: Routledge, 2015).
5) 6:29
More than 26,000 people were executed, exiled, or imprisoned for political offences between 1907 and 1909: Peter Waldron, Between Two Revolutions: Stolypin and the Politics of Renewal in Russia (London: UCL Press, 1998), 63.
6) 7:25
Anna Geifman, Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, 1894–1917 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995).
7) 8:34
Linda H. Edmondson, Feminism in Russia, 1900–17 (London: Heinemann, 1984); Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Equality and Revolution: Women’s Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905–1917 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).
8) 9:16
Susan Morrissey, ‘Subjects and Citizens, 1905–1917’, in Simon Dixon (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History (Oxford: Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013).
9) 9:53
Eric Lohr, ‘The Ideal Citizen and Real Subject in Late Imperial Russia’, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 7:2 (2006), 173–94.
10) 11:28
Joseph Bradley, Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
11) 12:42
There are two excellent introductions to the debate on where Russia was going after 1905: R. B. McKean, Between the Revolutions: Russia, 1905 to 1917 (London: The Historical Association, 1998); Ian D. Thatcher, Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects: Essays in Honour of R. B. McKean (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005).
12) 15:46
Hosking, Constitutional Experiment; Waldron, Between Two Revolutions.
13) 16:31
Joshua A. Sanborn, Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905–1925 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003).
14) 17:54
D. C. B. Lieven, Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia (London: Allen Lane, 2015), 176, 180.
15) 18:46
Peter Gatrell, Government, Industry, and Rearmament in Russia, 1900–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 152–5.
16) 18:57
David Stevenson, Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904–1914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 7. ‘Only Russia could keep up with [Germany] and that inefficiently.’ Alan J. P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848–1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954), xxviii.
17) 19:17
Melissa K. Stockdale, Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1889–1918 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996), 186–8.
18) 20:26
Waldron, Between Two Revolutions, 171–3.
19) 21:00
Hosking, Constitutional Experiment, 106.
20) 22:11
Laura Engelstein, The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992).
21) 22:58
Clowes, Kassow, and, West (eds), Between Tsar and People.
22) 23:18
McClelland, Autocrats, 52.
23) 24:02
Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985).
24) 24:25
Louise McReynolds, News under Russia’s Old Regime: The Development of a Mass-Circulation Press (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991), 225.
25) 24:53
McReynolds, News, 237, 234.
26) 25:53
James von Geldern and Louise McReynolds, Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779–1917 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), xx.
27) 28:05
Cited in Engel, Between the Fields and the City, 155.
28) 29:24
Wayne Dowler, Russia in 1913 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010), 112.
29) 30:19
R. E. Zelnik (trans. and ed.), A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986), 71.
30) 30:57
D. N. Zhbankov, Bab’ia storona: statistiko-etnograficheskii ocherk (Kostroma, 1891), 27.
31) 31:24
See the photographs in Christine Ruane, The Empire’s New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700–1917 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 197, 202.
32) 32:28
Ascher, Revolution of 1905, vol. 2, 134.
33) 33:35
O. S. Porshneva, Mentalitet i sotsial’noe povedenie rabochikh, krest’ian i soldat Rossii v period pervoi mirovoi voiny (1914-mart 1918g) (Ekaterinburg: UrO RAN, 2000), 146.
34) 33:57
Heather Hogan, Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State in St Petersburg, 1890–1914 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), 161–74.
35) 35:21
Tim McDaniel, Autocracy, Capitalism, and Revolution in Russia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
36) 36:53
Leopold H. Haimson and Ronald Petrusha, ‘Two Strike Waves in Imperial Russia, 1905–1907, 1912–1914’, in Leopold H. Haimson and Charles Tilly, Strikes, Wars and Revolutions in an International Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge Uuniversity Press, 1989), 101–66 (125).
37) 39:57
A. P. Korelin and S. V. Tiutukin, Pervaia revoliutisiia v Rossii: vzgliad cherez stoletie (Moscow: Pamiatniki istoricheskoi mysli, 2005), 536.
38) 40:19
N. D. Postnikov, Territorial’noe razmeshchenie i chislennost’ politicheskikh partii Rossii (1907–fevral’ 1917) (Moscow: IIU MGOU, 2015).
39) 42:03
Postnikov, Territorial’noe razmeshchenie, 56.
40) 42:26
Postnikov, Territorial’noe razmeshchenie, 56; Michael S. Melancon, Stormy Petrels: The Socialist Revolutionaries in Russia’s Labor Organizations, 1905–1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Centre for Russian and East European Studies, 1988).
41) 44:43
Konstantin N. Morozov, ‘Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionnerov vo vremia i posle revoliutsii 1905–1907 gg.’, Cahiers du monde russe, 48:2 (2007), 301–30.
42) 45:08
Postnikov, Territorial’noe razmeshchenie, 56.
43) 46:48
Reginald E. Zelnik (ed.), Workers and Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia: Realities, Representations, Reflections (Berkeley: International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1999).
44) 47:16
A. Buzinov, Za Nevskoi Zastavoi (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Iz-vo, 1930), 29.