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This series discusses the Menshevik-SR attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks. This episode discusses who the support base of the Mensheviks and right-SRs were.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
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Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/menshevik-attempt-to-overthrow-bolshevism-ep-9-who-were-the-supporters-of-menshevism
SOURCES:*
Brovkin, "Menshevik comeback"
M. Philips Price, My reminiscences of the Russian revolution
Sidney & Beatrice Webb, Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation, Third ed. in one volume, Longmans, Green and co. 1947
J. Hatch, "Working‐class politics in Moscow during the early NEP: Mensheviks and workers’ organisations, 1921–1922", Soviet Studies Volume 39, 1987 - Issue 4
Orlando Figes, A people's tragedy : the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London : Pimlico, 1997
Communique on trade unions, Soviet Russia, Vol. II New York, February 14, 1920 No. 7
Diane Koenker, “Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War”, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Sep., 1985)
Leonard Schapiro, The origin of the communist autocracy; political opposition in the Soviet state: first phase, 1917-1922
Vikzhedor
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V. Serge, Year one of the Russian Revolution, Chicago, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972
Yrjö Sirola, “Vaivojen kautta voittoon”, Vapaus, 27. VI. 19
В. А. Быстрянский, Меньшевики и эсеры в русской
Frida Rubiner, “From Menshevism to Communism”, Soviet Russia Pictorial, July, 1923
Getzler, Martov: a political biography of a Russian social democrat
Brovkin, Behind the front lines
Leopold Haimson (ed.), The Mensheviks : from the revolution of 1917 to the Second World War
André Liebich, From the other shore : Russian social democracy after 1921
Brovkin, Mensheviks after October
Smith, Captives of revolution : the socialist revolutionaries and the Bolshevik dictatorship, 1918-1923
*Price, the Webbs & Sirola are good sources. Serge's book is also ok, though he was otherwise a renegade. The book by Быстрянский is also a good source. I also recommend the "Soviet Russia" magazine and the "Soviet Russia pictorial" magazine. All the other sources cited are anti-communist and not recommended, though Koenker and Hatch are less bad.
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This series discusses the Menshevik-SR attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks. This episode discusses who the support base of the Mensheviks and right-SRs were.
Playlist with all episodes in this series:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS62J0PHzUIazpDQSPP4HLJ
Script:
mltheory.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/menshevik-attempt-to-overthrow-bolshevism-ep-9-who-were-the-supporters-of-menshevism
SOURCES:*
Brovkin, "Menshevik comeback"
M. Philips Price, My reminiscences of the Russian revolution
Sidney & Beatrice Webb, Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation, Third ed. in one volume, Longmans, Green and co. 1947
J. Hatch, "Working‐class politics in Moscow during the early NEP: Mensheviks and workers’ organisations, 1921–1922", Soviet Studies Volume 39, 1987 - Issue 4
Orlando Figes, A people's tragedy : the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London : Pimlico, 1997
Communique on trade unions, Soviet Russia, Vol. II New York, February 14, 1920 No. 7
Diane Koenker, “Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War”, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Sep., 1985)
Leonard Schapiro, The origin of the communist autocracy; political opposition in the Soviet state: first phase, 1917-1922
Vikzhedor
encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Vikzhedor
V. Serge, Year one of the Russian Revolution, Chicago, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972
Yrjö Sirola, “Vaivojen kautta voittoon”, Vapaus, 27. VI. 19
В. А. Быстрянский, Меньшевики и эсеры в русской
Frida Rubiner, “From Menshevism to Communism”, Soviet Russia Pictorial, July, 1923
Getzler, Martov: a political biography of a Russian social democrat
Brovkin, Behind the front lines
Leopold Haimson (ed.), The Mensheviks : from the revolution of 1917 to the Second World War
André Liebich, From the other shore : Russian social democracy after 1921
Brovkin, Mensheviks after October
Smith, Captives of revolution : the socialist revolutionaries and the Bolshevik dictatorship, 1918-1923
*Price, the Webbs & Sirola are good sources. Serge's book is also ok, though he was otherwise a renegade. The book by Быстрянский is also a good source. I also recommend the "Soviet Russia" magazine and the "Soviet Russia pictorial" magazine. All the other sources cited are anti-communist and not recommended, though Koenker and Hatch are less bad.
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My discord
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My blog
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