Leftist Reading: Russia in Revolution Part 28

Leftist Reading

Episode 116:

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]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture
Social Order Restored
Designing a Welfare State

[Part 28 - This Week]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture
The Arts and Utopia - 0:22
Family and Gender Relations - 29:47

[Part 29 - 30]
7. The New Economic Policy: Society and Culture

[Part 31?]
Conclusion

Figure 7.2 - 9:47
Liubov’ Popova, ‘Jug on a table’.

Figure 7.3 - 11:03
Vladimir Tatlin and assistant in front of a model of his Monument to the Third International, 1919.

Figure 7.4 - 35:33
A demonstration for women’s liberation in Baku, Azerbaijan, c.1925.

Footnotes:

36) 2:48
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Communist Manifesto’ (1848), <https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf>.

37) 3:44
Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989); Catriona Kelly and David Shepherd, Russian Cultural Studies: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

38) 5:13
Alexander Bogdanov, Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia, trans. Charles Rougle (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984); J. A. E. Curtis, The Englishman from Lebedian: A Life of Evgeny Zamiatin (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2013).

39) 5:54
Lenin, State and Revolution.

40) 6:05
J. Bowlt and O. Matich (eds), Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experiment (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996).

41) 6:33
The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1917–1932 (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1992).

42) 8:04
Mayakovsky, ‘150 million’, in René Fülöp-Miller, The Mind and Face of Bolshevism (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1965), 159.

43) 11:42
E. A. Dobrenko and Marina Balina (eds), The Cambridge Companion to 20th-Century Russian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011); Robert A. Maguire, Red Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920s (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968).

44) 14:42
Richard Taylor, The Politics of the Soviet Cinema, 1917–1929 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979); Peter Kenez, Cinema and Soviet Society, 1917–1953 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

45) 18:45
Lesley Chamberlain, Lenin’s Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia (London: St Martin’s Press, 2007).

46) 19:54
Il’ina, Obshchestvennye organizatsii Rossii, 32, 74.

47) 20:39
T. M. Goriaeva (ed.), Istoriia sovetskoi politicheskoi tsenzury: dokumenty i kommentarii (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1997), 444.

48) 21:29
Goriaeva, Istoriia, 277, 430–2.

49) 22:15
Michael David-Fox, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).

50) 24:35
R. W. Davies and Maureen Perrie, ‘Social Context’, in Davies (ed.), From Tsarism, 36.

51) 26:04
Christopher Read, Culture and Power in Revolutionary Russia (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1990); Fitzpatrick, The Cultural Front.

52) 27:05
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978).

53) 29:58
Goldman, Women, the State and Revolution.

54) 31:01
Barbara A. Engel, Breaking the Ties that Bind: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011), 6.

55) 32:15
K. N. Samoilova, Rabotnitsy v Rossiiskoi revoliutsii (Petrograd: Gosizdat, 1920), 3.

56) 32:33
Chernykh, Stanovlenie Rossii sovetskoi, 179.

57) 33:15
Beatrice Farnsworth, Aleksandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism and the Bolshevik Revolution (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980); Barbara E. Clements, Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979).

58) 36:02
Douglas Northrup, Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004); Marianne Kamp, The New Woman of Uzbekistan (Seattle: Washington University Press, 2006), 162–78. Shoshana Keller, To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet Campaign against Islam in Central Asia, 1917–1941 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001).

59) 37:13
Beatrice Penati, ‘On the Local Origins of the Soviet Attack on the “Religious” Waqf in the Uzbek SSR (1927)’, Acta Slavonica Iaponica, 36 (2015), 39–72.

60) 37:19
Karen Petrone, ‘Masculinity and Heroism in Imperial and Soviet Military-Patriotic Cultures’, in B. E. Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey (eds), Russian Masculinities in History and Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), 172–93.

61) 39:04
Victoria E. Bonnell, ‘The Representation of Women in Early Soviet Political Art’, Russian Review, 50 (1991), 267–88.

62) 42:10
S. G. Strumilin, ‘Biudzhet vremeni rabochikh v 1923–24gg.’, in S. G. Strumilin, Problemy ekonomiki truda (Moscow: Nauka, 1982).

63) 44:09
Golos naroda, 157.

64) 47:52
Frances Bernstein, The Dictatorship of Sex: Gender, Health, and Enlightenment in Revolutionary Russia, 1918–1931 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007).

65) 48:57
Eric Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 92.