Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 1

Episode 89:This week we’re starting Russia in Revolution An Empire in Crisis 1890 - 1928 by S. A. Smith[Part 1 - This Week]Introduction - 1:01[Part 2 - 4?]1. Roots of Revolution, 1880s–1905[Part 5 - 7?]2. From Reform to War, 1906–1917[Part 8 - 10?]3. From February to October 1917[Part 11 - 14?]4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power[Part 15 - 17?]5. War Communism[Part 18 - 20?]6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy[Part 21 - 24?]7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture[Part 25?]ConclusionFootnotes:1) 3:23François Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 1.2) 16:51Arno Mayer, The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 3.3) 16:40Compare Simon Schama on the French Revolution: ‘In some depressing unavoidable sense, violence was the revolution.’ Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (London: Viking, 1989), xv.