Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 1

Leftist Reading

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?]
Conclusion

Footnotes:
1) 3:23
François Furet, Interpreting the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 1.

2) 16:51
Arno Mayer, The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 3.

3) 16:40
Compare 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.