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EPISODE · Nov 14, 2022 · 44 MIN

Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 27

from Leftist Reading · host Gary Chadwick

Episode 115: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 - 26]6. The New Economic Policy: Politics and the Economy[Part 27 - This Week]7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture - 0:22Social Order Restored - 2:20Designing a Welfare State - 21:04[Part 28 - 30?]7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture[Part 31?]ConclusionFigure 7.1 - 26:31Young Pioneers demonstrate against the dangers of alcohol, 1929.[See image at https://www.abnormalmapping.com/leftist-reading-rss/2022/2/15/leftist-reading-russia-in-revolution-part-27]Footnotes:1) 0:34On aspects of society and culture in NEP Russia see the two collections of essays: Fitzpatrick, Rabinowitch, and Stites (eds), Russia in the Era of NEP; Abbot Gleason, Peter Kenez, and Richard Stites (eds), Bolshevik Culture: Experiment and Order in the Russian Revolution (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985).2) 5:02Sheila Fitzpatrick, ‘Ascribing Class: The Construction of Soviet Identity in Soviet Russia’, in S. Fitzpatrick (ed.), Stalinism: New Directions (London: Routledge, 1999), 20–46.3) 5:57Naselenie Rossii v XX veke, vol. 1, 149.4) 7:52Shanin, Awkward Class.5) 8:41Danilov, Rural Russia, 275.6) 9:17Merl, ‘Socio-economic Differentiation of the Peasantry’, in Davies (ed.), From Tsarism, 47–65.7) 10:42Moshe Lewin, Russian Peasants and Soviet Power (London: Allen and Unwin, 1968).8) 11:17I. I. Klimin, Rossiiskoe krest’ianstvo v gody novoi ekonomicheskoi politiki (1921–1927), chast’ pervaia (St Petersburg: Izd-do Politekhnicheskogo universiteta, 2007), 208.9) 13:31Golos naroda, 152.10) 14:14Alan M. Ball, Russia’s Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921–1929 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).11) 16:51Daniel T. Orlovsky, ‘The Antibureaucratic Campaign of the 1920s’ in Taranovski (ed.), Reform, 290–315.12) 17:57Krasil’nikov, Na izlomakh sotsial’noi struktury, table 1.13) 19:47V. I. Tikhonov, V. S. Tiazhel’nikova, and I. F. Iushin, Lishenie izbiratel’nykh prav v Moskve v 1920–1930-e gody (Moscow: Mosgorarkhiv, 1998), 132.14) 21:44Hoffman and Kotsonis (eds), Russian Modernity.15) 21:57Susan Gross Solomon and John F. Hutchinson (eds), Health and Society in Revolutionary Russia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).16) 22:50A. Iu. Rozhkov, V krugu sverstnikov: Zhiznennyi mir molodogo cheloveka v sovetskoi Rossii 1920-kh godov (Krasnodar: OIPTs, 2002).17) 24:05Neil B. Weissman, ‘Origins of Soviet Health Administration: Narkomzdrav, 1918–1928’, in Solomon and Hutchinson (eds), Health and Society, 97–120.18) 26:49Neil Weissman, ‘Prohibition and Alcohol Control in the USSR: The 1920s Campaign against Illegal Spirits’, Soviet Studies, 38:3 (1986), 349–68.19) 28:38James Riordan Sport in Soviet Society: Development of Sport and Physical Education in Russia and the USSR (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977).20) 29:12Robert Edelman, Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sports in the USSR (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), 46.21) 29:39Smena, 21 Aug. 1925, 5.22) 31:20Larry E. Holmes, The Kremlin and the Schoolhouse (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991).23) 32:23Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility, ch. 1.24) 32:45For contrasting evaluations of experimentalism: V. L. Soskin, Obshchee obrazovanie v sovetskoi Rossii: pervoe desiatiletie, chast’ 2, 1923–1927gg. (Novosibirsk: Novosibirskii gos. universitet, 1999); Balashov, Shkola.25) 34:44William Partlett, ‘Breaching Cultural Worlds with the Village School: Educational Visions, Local Initiative, and Rural Experience at S. T. Shatskii’s Kaluga School System 1919–32’, Slavonic and East European Review, 82:4 (2004), 847–85 (859).26) 36:15Holmes, The Kremlin, 94.27) 36:51Shkaratan, Problemy, 289.28) 37:14Gimpel’son, Sovetskie upravlentsy; Chernykh, Stanovlenie Rossii sovetskoi.29) 38:44E. O. Kabo, Ocherki rabochego byta (Moscow: Iz-do VTsSPS, 1926), 175.30) 39:21Il’iukhov, Zhizn’, 151.31) 39:52William J. Chase, Workers, Society and the Soviet State: Labor and Life in Moscow, 1918–1929 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 185.32) 40:29Gimpel’son, Sovetskie upravlentsy, 205.33) 41:36Andrei Platonov, Chevengur, trans. Anthony Olcott (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1978), 135.34) 42:14Victor Serge, Memoirs of a Revolutionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963), 198.35) 43:30Vladimir Mayakovsky, ‘Vziatochniki’, <http://www.stihi-rus.ru/1/Mayakovskiy/7.htm>.

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