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Ian Schlom's List: Russian Revolution
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Dec 17, 11
Being the history by Trotsky.
Remember to mark which sections I do not have, so if I feel the need, I can read them. -
Oct 25, 11
this is a primary document (?) from the revolution.
It's also in some Slavic language -
Oct 25, 11
you'll need Google Translate because this is in Russian... But it's got a lot of archives.
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Oct 25, 11
recommended to me by the International Institute of Social History.
This website just has a bunch of links that forwards you to different articles on different events & time periods in the Revolution. -
Sep 27, 11
In Calibre as EPUB
There's another copy at Nestormakhno.info
Peter Arshinov writes on the experiences of the anarchists in Russian Revolution. -
Sep 27, 11
EPUB in Calibre.
ditext is the better version because some chapter has the beginning missing in the NestorMakhno.Info version - even though it is copy/pasted from this site... -
Sep 27, 11
In Calibre as EPUB and ODT.
Also printed in whole. -
Dec 17, 11
Speech made at a session of the All Russian Central Executive Committee on September and, 1918.
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Dec 17, 11
Has some good pieces on Lenin. Should be helpful... Of course it's biased because it's written by Trotsky.
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Dec 17, 11
This should prove to be a goldmine of info on how the army was involved in the dictatorship
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Avrich, Paul. The Russian Anarchists. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2005. Print.
Arshinov, Peter. History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918-1921). Trans. Lorraine and Fredy Perlman. Detroit, MI: Black & Red, 1974. eBook.
Goldman, Emma. My Disillusionment in Russia. New York, NY: Double Day, Page & Co., 1923. EPUB. The Anarchist Library.
Goldston, Robert. The Russian Revolution. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1966. Print.
Keep, John L.H. The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization. New York, NY: Norton & Company, 1976. Print.
Kropotkin, Peter. "The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government: Letter to the Workers of Western Europe." Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets. Ed. Roger N Baldwin. New York, NY: Vanguard Press, 1927. EPUB. The Anarchist Library.
Russel, Bertrand. The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism. Great Britain, London: George Allen & Unwin LTD., 1921. EPUB. Project Gutenberg.
Trotsky, Leon. The Russian Revolution. Trans. Max Eastman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959. Print.
Tucker, Robert C. The Lenin Anthology. New York. NY: Norton & Company, 19 75. Print.
Subtelny, Orest. Ukraine: A History. 2nd Ed. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Print.
Voline. The Unknown Revolution 1917-1921. Trans Fredy Perlman and Holley Cantine. New York, NY: Libertarian Book Club, 1954. EPUB. The Anarchist Library.
Wade, Rex A. The Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. Print.
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Dec 18, 11
EPUB of Book 1 is in Calibre. But I'll have to format ODTs of the other 2 Books for making a series of 3 volumes for Calibre.
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Dec 19, 11
A collection of articles on the Russian Revolution and Anarchism. Should be interesting.
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Dec 23, 11
BY HEATHER-NOËL SCHWARTZ
to reformat in an ODT, and then convert into an EPUB in Calibre. -
Dec 24, 11
It's a letter by Lenin to the Party Congress
Has a sequel letter to the Party Congress, "Better Fewer, But Better," following this. Both are in Calibre.
This is a cool primary source on Bolshevik policy regarding its Worker and Peasant Soviets. -
Dec 30, 11
It seems strange to me to dwell on the execution of the Romanov family when there's the slaughter of the Kronstadt Sailors to contend with. Knowing that Nicholas II was slaughtering his people in 1905, it could be argued that the only flaw with the execution of the White figurehead was that it didn't stand trial.
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Dec 30, 11
Summary Note of Goldston Ch.2 “1905: Dress Rehearsal” pgs. 53-76
Russia got into a war with Japan over Russia's expansion into Korea. Russia suffered an embarrassing defeat. The poor were so outraged by the poverty and wage-slavery that they started a general strike. The Social-Democrats were too busy fighting over internal policy to engage the revolution of 1905. Trotsky was able to fight. He urged the strikers to collect arms for a military resistance to the violent repression everyone expected. People were smuggling arms and making bombs for battles. “Mark Twain commented at the time: 'If such a government cannot be overthrown otherwise than by dynamite, then thank God for dynamite.'” (72)
The fractured Social-Democrats, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, disagreed on whether to structure the party democratically as a broad movement, or as a dictatorship with exclusive professional revolutionists. In that state, they couldn't do shit.
A Soviet in St. Petersburg was actually created and the strikers were becoming militant. The “bouregoisie” of Russia was with the strikers and desired a way to supply itself with some power. They demanded a parliament.
Russia was essentially a classic Third World power. Its capital was foreign owned by Western Capitalists, and its “bourgeoisie” was simply the management of the factories. This meant that Russia had a growing proletariat, becoming a significant portion of its population, yet its infrastructure was basically shit.
The Czar was also a little crazy. He was very insecure. The demands of the revolutionaries was met and the Duma was given legislative powers. This was definitely not going to be any substantial power though.
Lenin & Cynical Revolutionism
Lenin was a cynical revolutionary and saw the suffering of the peasantry as a chance for fomenting revolt. He took the opportunity of the suffering peasantry to spread revolutionary ideas, not trying to liberate the peasantry from their misery by showing that the peasantry should liberate themselves from their suffering. Nor either trying to relieve them from their pains.
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