Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 10

Episode 98: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]3. From February to October 1917Dual Power[Part 10 - This Week]Lenin and the Bolsheviks - 0:31The Aspirations of Soldiers and Workers - 13:31The Provisional Government in Crisis - 25:42[Part 11 -12?]3. From February to October 1917[Part 13 - 16?]4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power[Part 17 - 19?]5. War Communism[Part 20 - 22?]6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy[Part 23 - 26?]7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture[Part 27?]ConclusionFigure 3.2 - 23:54A factory meeting on May Day 1917. The banners read: ‘Long live the holiday of the world proletariat’ and ‘If we repair a single steam engine it means we bring the end of hunger and poverty nearer and thereby bring an end to capitalism’.Figure 3.3 - 29:00Kerensky tours the front June 1917. He here is greeting the Czech Legion.[see figures on AbnormalMapping.com here]Footnotes:26) 0:41Christopher Read, Lenin: A Revolutionary Life (Abingdon: Routledge, 2005).27) 2:35N. N. Sukhanov, The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record, ed. Joel Carmichael (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983), 272–3.28) 3:05Angelica Balabanoff, Impressions of Lenin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964), 2.29) 3:36A. N. Potresov, Izbrannoe (Moscow: Mosgosarkhiv, 2002), 284.30) 5:28Robert Service, Lenin: A Political Life (3 vols), vol. 2: Worlds in Collision (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991).31) 5:37Neil Harding, Lenin’s Political Thought: Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions (Chicago: Haymarket, 2009), 59–70.32) 7:40V. I. Lenin, ‘The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution’, <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/apr/04.htm>.33) 7:52Robert Service, The Bolshevik Party in Revolution: A Study in Organizational Change (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1979).34) 8:27V. I. Miller, ‘K voprosu o sravnitel’noi chislennosti partii bol’shevikov i men’shevikov v 1917g.’, Voprosy istorii KPSS, 12 (1988), 109–18.35) 9:10There are no biographies in English of Zinoviev and Kamenev. However, the following entries are good: <http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSzinoviev.htm>; <http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSkamenev.htm>. See, too, Catherine Merridale, ‘The Making of a Moderate Bolshevik: An Introduction to L. B. Kamenev’s Political Biography’, in Julian Cooper, Maureen Perrie, and E. A. Rees (eds), Soviet History, 1917–1953: Essays in Honour of R. W. Davies (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995), 22–41.36) 9:37Ian D. Thatcher, Trotsky (London: Routledge, 2003); Isaac Deutscher, The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879–1921 (London: Oxford University Press, 1954).37) 10:29Ian D. Thatcher, ‘The St Petersburg/Petrograd Mezhraionka, 1913–1917: The Rise and Fall of a Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party Unity Faction’, Slavonic and East European Review, 87: 2 (2009), 284–321.38) 12:35Shestoi s’’ezd RSDRP (bol’shevikov) avgust 1917 goda: Protokoly, 20, 23.39) 13:43Christopher Read, From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and their Revolution, 1917–21 (London: UCL Press, 1996), chs 4–6; Allan Wildman, The End of the Russian Imperial Army, vol. 1 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980).40) 14:17Evan Mawdsley, The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet: War and Politics, February 1917–April 1918 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1978).41) 15:19<https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/1917/03/01.htm>.42) 16:08Pravda, 21, 30 Mar. 1917.43) 17:09Startsev, Vnutrenniaia politika.44) 18:08‘Vserossiiskaia konferentsiia frontovykh i tylovykh voennykh organizatsii RSDRP(b)’, Politicheskie deiateli Rossii 1917. Biograficheskii slovar’ (Moscow: Bol’shaia rossiiskaia entsiklopediia, 1993).45) 18:21K. A. Tarasov, ‘Chislennost’ voennoi organizatsii bol’shevikov nakanune oktiabria 1917 goda’, Trudy Karel’skoi nauchnogo tsentra RAN, 3 (2014), 146–8.46) 18:36David Mandel, The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1983); David Mandel, The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984); Diane Koenker, Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981).47) 20:23Smith, Red Petrograd.48) 25:49Figes, People’s Tragedy, ch. 10.49) 29:57Izvestiia, 96, 20 June 1917.50) 30:46Wildman, End of the Russian Imperial Army.51) 31:44Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution: 1899–1919 (New York: Knopf, 1990), 770; Alexander Rabinowitch, Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968).52) 33:05Rabinowitch, Prelude, 173.53) 34:25Sukhanov, The Russian Revolution, 446.54) 35:51O. N. Znamenskii, Iiul’skii krizis 1917 goda (Moscow: Nauka, 1964), 124.