Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 14

Episode 102: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]4. Civil War and Bolshevik PowerThe Expansion of Soviets[Part 14 - This Week]4. Civil War and Bolshevik PowerCivil War - 0:22[Part 15 - 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?]ConclusionFigures 4.1 - 10:02German prisoners-of-war demonstrate in Moscow in 1918. Their banner reads ‘Long live the World Revolution!’4.2 - 12:40Red Army soldiers going off to fight.4.3 - 38:22Lenin speaks to troops being sent to the Polish Front in Moscow, 5 May 1920. Trotsky and Kamenev are standing on the step of the platform.Footnotes:22) 0:40The following section draws on: Jonathan D. Smele, The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916–1926 (London: Hurst, 2016); Evan Mawdsley, The Russian Civil War (New York: Pegasus, 2005); W. Bruce Lincoln, Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989).23) 1:01Krivosheev (ed.), Rossiia i SSSR v voinakh XX veka.24) 1:23Naselenie Rossii v XX veke, vol. 1, 148.25) 6:21Joshua Sanborn, ‘The Genesis of Russian Warlordism: Violence and Governance during the First World War and the Civil War’, Contemporary European History, 19 (2010), 195–213.26) 6:37Geoffrey Swain, Russia’s Civil War (2nd edn) (Stroud: History Press, 2008).27) 8:04P. N. Vrangel’, Zapiski (noiabr’ 1916–noiabr 1920) (2 vols), vol. 1 (Moscow: Kosmos, 1991), 100.28) 9:08Peter Kenez, Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971).29) 11:37Mark von Hagen, Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917–1930 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990); Francesco Benvenuti, The Bolsheviks and the Red Army, 1918–1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).30) 12:42V. Ia. Grosul, ‘Krasnye generaly grazhdanskoi voiny’, Rossiiskaia istoriia, 4 (2011), 139–54.31) 15:46A. Lunacharskii, ‘Revolutionary Silhouettes’ (1923), <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lunachar/works/silhouet/trotsky.htm>.32) 18:28Eduard Dune, Notes of a Red Guard, trans. and ed. Diane P. Koenker and S. A. Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993).33) 19:06Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: Knopf, 1990), 770.34) 20:42Dobrovol’skii, ‘Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov’, ch. 4, section 2.35) 22:02Yanni Kotsonis, ‘Arkhangel’sk, 1918: Regionalism and Populism in the Russian Civil War’, Russian Review, 51:4 (1992), 526–44; Liudmila G. Novikova, ‘Northerners into Whites: Popular Participation in the Counter-Revolution in Arkhangel’sk Province, Summer–Autumn 1918’, Europe-Asia Studies, 60:2 (2008), 277–93.36) 25:09A. G. Kavtaradze, Voennye spetsialisty na sluzhbe Respubliki sovetov 1917–1920gg. (Moscow: Nauka, 1988).37) 26:49G. A. Trukan, Put’ k totalitarizmu, 1917–1929gg. (Moscow: Nauka, 1994), 61.38) 28:15S. Karpenko, ‘The White Dictatorships’: Bureaucracy in the South of Russia: Social Structure, Living Conditions, and Performance (1918–1920)’, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 37:1 (2010), 84–96.39) 29:18Peter Kenez, Civil War in South Russia, 1919–1920: The Defeat of the Whites (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), 88–93, 282.40) 43:43Orlando Figes, ‘The Red Army and Mass Mobilization during the Russian Civil War’, Past and Present, 129 (1990), 168–211; Sanborn, Drafting the Russian Nation.41) 44:50Kavtaradze, Voennye spetsialisty, 175–8.42) 45:33Norman G. O. Pereira, White Siberia: The Politics of Civil War (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996).43) 48:52Jonathan D. Smele, Historical Dictionary of the ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916–1926 (2 vols) (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), 1303.44) 52:47Figes, People’s Tragedy, 699.