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This series discusses the Menshevik-SR attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks. This episode discusses the topics of repression and the "workers' assemblies" movement.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
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Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/10/13/menshevik-attempt-to-overthrow-bolshevism-ep-6-the-workers-assemblies-movement-1918-21
SOURCES:*
Bertrand Russell, The practice and theory of Bolshevism
E. H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 Vol. 1, Norton, 1985.
V. Serge, Year one of the Russian Revolution, Chicago, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.
George Lansbury, What I saw in Russia
H. G. Wells, Russia in the shadows
George Denicke, in Leopold Haimson (ed.), The Mensheviks : from the revolution of 1917 to the Second World War
В. А. Быстрянский, Меньшевики и эсеры в русской
The Liberator, Issue No. 16, June, 1919
Brovkin, The Mensheviks after October
Vera Broido, Lenin and the Mensheviks: The Persecution of Socialists under Bolshevism
Abraham Ascher, The Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution
André Liebich, From the other shore: Russian social democracy after 1921
International press correspondence, Vol. 2, No. 50, June 17, 1922
Alexander Rabinowitch, “Early disenchantment with Bolshevik rule: new data from the archives of the extraordinary assembly of delegates from Petrograd factories”, Politics and society under the Bolsheviks: selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995.
Orlando Figes, A people’s tragedy : the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London : Pimlico, 1997.
Sergei Pavliuchenkov, “Protest Movement Against War Communism” in Brovkin (ed.) The Bolsheviks in Russian society
William G. Rosenberg, “Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power after October”, Slavic Review Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer, 1985)
Kronstadt Tragedy cited in Kronstadt 1921: Bolshevism vs. Counterrevolution
Scott B. Smith, Captives of revolution : the socialist revolutionaries and the Bolshevik dictatorship, 1918-1923
Simon Pirani, “The Moscow workers’ movement in 1921 and the role of non-partyism”, Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 56, 2004 – Issue 1
*I can recommend the books by George Lansbury and Быстрянский, as well as the communist magazines “International press correspondence” and “The liberator”. The other sources are all anti-communist reactionaries, with the small exception of H. G. Wells, who was a liberal.
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This series discusses the Menshevik-SR attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks. This episode discusses the topics of repression and the "workers' assemblies" movement.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS62J0PHzUIazpDQSPP4HLJ
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/10/13/menshevik-attempt-to-overthrow-bolshevism-ep-6-the-workers-assemblies-movement-1918-21
SOURCES:*
Bertrand Russell, The practice and theory of Bolshevism
E. H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 Vol. 1, Norton, 1985.
V. Serge, Year one of the Russian Revolution, Chicago, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972.
George Lansbury, What I saw in Russia
H. G. Wells, Russia in the shadows
George Denicke, in Leopold Haimson (ed.), The Mensheviks : from the revolution of 1917 to the Second World War
В. А. Быстрянский, Меньшевики и эсеры в русской
The Liberator, Issue No. 16, June, 1919
Brovkin, The Mensheviks after October
Vera Broido, Lenin and the Mensheviks: The Persecution of Socialists under Bolshevism
Abraham Ascher, The Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution
André Liebich, From the other shore: Russian social democracy after 1921
International press correspondence, Vol. 2, No. 50, June 17, 1922
Alexander Rabinowitch, “Early disenchantment with Bolshevik rule: new data from the archives of the extraordinary assembly of delegates from Petrograd factories”, Politics and society under the Bolsheviks: selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995.
Orlando Figes, A people’s tragedy : the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London : Pimlico, 1997.
Sergei Pavliuchenkov, “Protest Movement Against War Communism” in Brovkin (ed.) The Bolsheviks in Russian society
William G. Rosenberg, “Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power after October”, Slavic Review Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer, 1985)
Kronstadt Tragedy cited in Kronstadt 1921: Bolshevism vs. Counterrevolution
Scott B. Smith, Captives of revolution : the socialist revolutionaries and the Bolshevik dictatorship, 1918-1923
Simon Pirani, “The Moscow workers’ movement in 1921 and the role of non-partyism”, Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 56, 2004 – Issue 1
*I can recommend the books by George Lansbury and Быстрянский, as well as the communist magazines “International press correspondence” and “The liberator”. The other sources are all anti-communist reactionaries, with the small exception of H. G. Wells, who was a liberal.
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My patreon
patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik
My discord
discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK
My blog
mltheory.wordpress.com
My Email
thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com
