Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 23

Episode 111: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 - 17]4. Civil War and Bolshevik Power[Part 18 - 22]5. War Communism[Part 23 - This Week]6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy - 0:43New Economic Policy and Agriculture - 11:08[Part 24 - 26?]6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy[Part 27 - 30?]7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture[Part 31?]ConclusionFootnotes:1) 1:01The great work on the history of these years is E. H. Carr’s fourteen-volume A History of Soviet Russia, which covers the period from 1917 to 1929. It falls into four parts: The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917–23 (3 vols, 1950–3); The Interregnum, 1923–1924 (1954); Socialism in One Country, 1924–26 (4 vols, 1958–63); Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926–1929 (6 vols, 1969–78, the first two co-authored with R. W. Davies).2) 3:49V. P. Danilov, ‘Vvedenie’, Kak lomali NEP: Stenogrammy plenumov TsK VKP(b), 1928–1929gg., 5 vols (Moscow: Materik, 2000), vol. 1, 5–13 (6).3) 4:41Mark Harrison, ‘Prices in the Politburo 1927: Market Equilibrium versus the Use of Force’, in Paul R. Gregory and Norman Naimark (eds), The Lost Politburo Transcripts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), 224–46.4) 7:12V. I. Lenin, ‘On Cooperation’, <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/jan/06.htm>.5) 7:30Moshe Lewin, The Making of the Soviet System (London: Methuen, 1985).6) 8:25Pirani, Russian Revolution in Retreat.7) 8:45L. N. Liutov, Obrechennaia reforma: promyshlennost’ Rossii v epokhu NEPa (Ul’ianovsk: Ul’ianovskii gos. universitet, 2002), 17.8) 12:31Danilov, ‘Vvedenie’, 6.9) 13:35Mark Harrison, ‘The Peasantry and Industrialization’, in Davies (ed.), From Tsarism, 110.10) 13:58Wheatcroft, ‘Agriculture’, in Davies (ed.), From Tsarism, 98.11) 14:47Harrison, ‘The Peasantry’, 113.12) 16:20Harrison, ‘The Peasantry’, 110.13) 16:59E. H. Carr and R. W. Davies, Foundations of a Planned Economy, 1926–1929, vol. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1969), 971.14) 17:41Danilov, ‘Vvedenie’, 9.15) 18:08Tragediia sovetskoi derevni. Kollektivizatsiia i raskulachivanie. Dokumentyi i materialy, vol. 1 (Moscow: Rossiiskaia Polit. Entsiklopediia, 1999), 37–8; James Hughes, Stalin, Siberia and the Crisis of the New Economic Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 126–33.16) 18:36V. P. Danilov and O. V. Khlevniuk, ‘Aprel’skii plenum 1928g.’, in Kak lomali NEP: Stenogrammy plenumov TsK VKP(b), 1928–1929gg., 5 vols (Moscow: Materik, 2000), vol. 1, 15–33 (29).17) 20:00V. P. Danilov, Rural Russia under the New Regime (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 269.18) 20:31Danilov, Rural Russia, 171.19) 21:20James W. Heinzen, Inventing a Soviet Countryside: State Power and the Transformation of Rural Russia, 1917–1929 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004).20) 23:22Roger Pethybridge, The Social Prelude to Stalinism (Basingstoke: London, 1974), 226.21) 24:51K. B. Litvak, ‘Zhizn’ krest’ianina 20-kh godov: sovremennye mify i istoricheskie realii’, in NEP: Priobreteniia i poteri (Moscow: Nauka, 1994), 186–202.