Politics and Letters

Andrew's book is available here from Verso.

Intro: Red Army is the Strongest - Alexandrov Red Army Choir

Outro: You Fell Victim

Further Reading

Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution: 1917 - 1923. Haymarket Books, 2005.

Carr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923. W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.

Cohen, Stephen P. Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography 1888 - 1938. Knopf, 1973.

Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.

——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.

FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Kołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015.

Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Serge, Victor. Memoirs of a Revolutionary. New York Review of Books, 2012.

——., Year One of the Russian Revolution. Haymarket Books, 2015.

Smith, S.A.. Russia in Revolution: Empire in Crisis 1890 - 1928. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Trotsky, Leon. Military Writings. Wellred Books, 2015.

Works Cited

Carr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923. W.W. Norton & Company, 1985.

Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.

—, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.

FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015.

Nettl, J.P. Rosa Luxemburg. Verso, 2019.

Rabinowitch, Alexander. Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising. Indiana University Press, 1991.

——. The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. Haymarket Books, 2004.

Reed, John. Ten Days that Shook the World. Penguin Books, 1977.

Serge, Victor. Year One of the Russian Revolution. Haymarket Books, 2015.

Smith, S.A.. Russia in Revolution: Empire in Crisis 1890 - 1928. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Suny, Ronald Grigor. Stalin: Passage to Revolution. Princeton University Press, 2021.

Trotsky, Leon. History of the Russian Revolution. Penguin, 2017.

Wilson, Edmund. To The Finland Station. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Further Reading

Broué, Pierre. The German Revolution 1917 - 1923. Haymarket Books, 2005.

Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015.

——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960.

FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008.

International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, ‘Manifesto’. Marxists.org, 1915. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/zimmerwald/manifesto-1915.htm

Kołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015.

Liedman, Sven-Eric. A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Verso, 2018.

Lenin, Vladimir. Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution. Marxists.org, 2008. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/index.htm#ep-s3

Luxemburg, Rosa, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume I: Economic Writings 1. Verso, 2014.

——, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Volume II: Economic Writings 2. Verso, 2016.

——. Reform or Revolution. Marxists.org, 1999. https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1900/reform-revolution/index.htm

——, ‘The Revolution in Russia’. Marxists.org, 2000. https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1905/02/08.htm

Marx, Karl. Critique of the Gotha Programme.

Nettl, J.P. Rosa Luxemburg. Verso, 2019.

Rabinowitch, Alexander. Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising. Indiana University Press, 1991.

Salvadori, Massimo. Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution 1880- 1939. Verso, 1990.

Smith, S.A.. Russia in Revolution: Empire in Crisis 1890 - 1928. Oxford University Press, 2018.

The Social Democratic Party of Germany, The Erfurt Programme. Marxists.org, 1891. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/1891/erfurt-program.htm

Trotsky, Leon. 1905. Wellred Books, 2017.

——. History of the Russian Revolution. Penguin, 2017.

——, Trotsky on Lenin. WellRed Books, 2017.

Wilson, Edmund. To The Finland Station. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

First part of a 6 / 7 part lecture series on the Russian Revolution going from the Enlightenment to the Paris Commune.

07:27: My bad explanation of Kant ends.

14:20: My bad explanation of Hegel ends.

I think I was sick of recording towards the end, you can hear it in my voice a bit.

Further Reading

Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso, 2018.

Engels, Friedrich. Anti-Dühring. Wellred Books, 2017.

——. The Origin of Private Property, Family and the State. Penguin, 2010.

Hibbert, Christopher. The French Revolution. Penguin, 1980.

Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 - 1848. Abacus, 2010.

Kołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Liedman, Sven-Eric. A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Verso, 2018.

Mandel, Ernest. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx 1843 to Capital. Verso, 2015.

Marx, Karl. Capital: Volume I. Penguin, 1990.

——. Capital: Volume II. Penguin, 1991.

——. Capital: Volume III. Penguin, 1992.

——. Civil War in France: The Paris Commune. International Publishers, 2008.

——. Class Struggles in France 1848 - 1850. International Publishers, 1997. 

Wilson, Edmund. To The Finland Station. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Strategic aims and outline of what I hope to achieve

Interview with Michael G. Cronin, Assistant Professor of English in Maynooth University about his books:

Impure Thoughts: Sexuality, Catholicism and Literature in Twentieth-Century Ireland

Revolutionary Bodies: Homoeroticism and the Political Imagination in Irish Writing

and Sexual / Liberation

Interview

Conversation with Liam McNulty about his book James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist, a critical biography of the great Irish socialist revolutionary, out from Merlin Press.

Tunes:

Frank Harte - James Connolly

Liam Weldon - James Connolly

Roxanna Nic Liam reads a excerpts from Tunnel of Toads, a novel I have written which is due to be published by Marrowbone Books in a few weeks.

Tunes:

Radie Peat - Cailín deas cruite na mBó / When I Was a Young Girl

Pinch & Shackleton - Cracks in the Pleasuredome

Burial & Four Tet - Moth

Mícheál Keating & Brendan McInerney - It's Still There