Department of History
Special Subject
The Russian Revolution 1914-1921
HI 317
Module Director: Professor Christopher Read
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Module Director: Professor Christopher Read
Tel. 02476 523308
23308 (internal)
c.j.read@warwick.ac.uk
Room 323
Office hours: Monday 2-15 – 2-45; Friday 12-15 – 12-45
(no office hours in reading weeks i.e. 6 and 16 nor after week 23. Please contact to
make appointments at these times. No appointment needed for regular office hours)
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Course Specification - The Russian Revolution 1914-1921
Please note – in the event of any conflict between the information below and that in
departmental handbooks, the departmental handbooks will prevail.
Aims & Objectives
The module is a 30 CATS Special Subject, accounting for up to one quarter of your third-year
work. Special Subjects involve the intensive study of a tightly focused set of topics or problems
using a large quantity of primary sources. It is, above all, through the Special Subject that you
will acquire hands-on experience of the skills involved in working with primary sources. For this
reason it is encouraged, though not compulsory, that those students intending to write a 30
CATS dissertation in History should do so in conjunction with their Special Subject.
Context: The module offers students an opportunity to explore the history of the Russian
Revolution in great depth. There is no requirement for you to have taken any previous courses
in Russian history or politics and the teaching will not assume that you have done so.
Syllabus: The module covers the political, social, economic and cultural history of the Russian
Revolution examining the impact of war; the February Revolution; the events of 1917; the Civil
War; War Communism ; the uprisings of 1920-1 and concludes with the Tenth Party Congress
and the Kronstadt rebellion. It is divided into two halves - The collapse of the old order; the
emergence of the new Soviet order.
Teaching & Learning: The course is taught in weekly seminars of two hours. Normally all
members of the course take part in the same seminar so size tends to vary up to a maximum of
18 students. The seminars focus on selected English language documentation on which the
course is based. Seminar discussion also covers the main directions of analysis in the abundant
secondary sources on the topic.
Seminar documents are discussed in detail in class and gobbets for the exam paper are
taken from them. The documents include official proclamations; official documents; electoral
statistics; political writings of leading figures in the revolution especially Lenin; extracts from
memoirs; extracts from newspapers; literature. The second and third questions on Paper 1 will
require discussion of the historiography of the revolution.
As a third-year student you are expected to organise your learning more independently
than hitherto, and, for this reason, there are no lectures in the module.
Assessment: All students will be examined on their knowledge and comprehension of the
selected sources and historiography in a compulsory three-hour paper. One question will
request comment on four out of seven short extracts from the course documents. Section A will
consist of questions on primary sources and historiography. Section B will be questions on the
history of the period.
Dissertation: see departmental guidelines for dissertation details.
Please note that extra credit is given for good use and knowledge of documents in all
aspects of course assessment.
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Intended Learning Outcomes
a) the further development of essay-writing and seminar participation skills
b) the development of a deeper understanding of the relationship between primary and
secondary historical sources
c.) the development of a student's ability to assess the importance of, to recognise the
difference between types of and to critically evaluate a wide variety of sources.
d.) to appreciate how analysis of primary sources contributes to historical debate, and
development of a capacity to undertake such analysis.
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developing critical analytical skills based on
introducing students to a wide variety of approaches to the study of the Russian Revolution
conveying basic historical knowledge of the Russian Revolution
utilising interdisciplinary perspectives to deepen historical understanding
providing students with the opportunity to evaluate critically a range of primary sources
including official documents, statistics, writings of leading historical figures and memoirs.
examining a wide range of secondary sources and secondary interpretations of the Russian
Revolution
To enable students to produce written and verbal analyses based on the above
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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - SPECIAL SUBJECT
SEMINAR TOPICS & DOCUMENT LIST
This list details the basic seminar topics for the course and is a complete record of the
documentary materials on which the course is based.
Seminar Documents - i.e. material
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
from which extracts will be taken for the gobbets question.
which will be discussed in detail in classes.
which should be used where appropriate in course and assessed essay work, in
exam answers and, where applicable, in the Dissertation.
Historiographical Material (Seminar Reading)
(i)
(ii)
which will also be discussed in class, though in less detail.
which should be used where appropriate in course and assessed essay work, in
sections A and B of the exam paper, and, where applicable, in the Dissertation.
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AUTUMN TERM
THE FALL OF TSARISM AND THE RISE OF BOLSHEVISM
Introduction and Background Reading:
C. Read
W.H. Chamberlin
E. Acton
Lars I Lih
R. Service (ed.)
Frankel E. Frankel J.
& Knei-Paz B.
J. White
R. Pipes
Holquist, P.
WEEK 1
From Tsar to Soviets
The Russian Revolution vol I
Rethinking the Russian Revolution
"Breakdown and Reconstitution: Thinking about the Russian
Revolution", Problems of Communism March-April 1990
Society and Politics in the Russian
Revolution
Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of
1917
The Russian Revolution: a short history
The Russian Revolution
Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis
1914-1921
INTRODUCTION. TSARIST SOCIETY BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Seminar Questions
How prepared was Russia for war? Why did Russia become involved? What were
the main strengths and weaknesses of Russian society on the eve of war?
Document
P.N. Durnovo
Memorandum to the Tsar
Seminar Reading
I.Thatcher (ed)
Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects
H. Rogger
Russia in the Age of Modernisation
Alternatives to this are:
C. Read
From Tsar to Soviets (chs. I & II)
L. Kochan
Russia in Revolution
You may also like to dip into D.M. Wallace's book Russia which is one of the best
first hand accounts of life in Russia in the early twentieth century by an acute
observer of all aspects of Russian life.
WEEK 2
RUSSIA AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Seminar questions
How did the Russian economy stand up to the pressures of war? What political
impact did war have? What was the importance of the Progressive Bloc? How
competent/incompetent was the Russian military in the war?
Documents
Documents of the August 1915 crisis (Vernadsky & Pushkarev, p.845-847)
Prologue to Revolution: Notes of A.N. Iakhontov on the
Secret Meetings of the Council of Minister, 1915 (ed by Cherniavsky p. 65-84)
Labour unrest 1914-16 (from Golder pp. 186-7)
Secret Police Reports, February-October 1916 (Vernadsky & Pushkarev, p.865
868)
V.I. Lenin
The War and Social Democracy;
Lecture on the 1905 Revolution
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Seminar Reading
N. Stone
M. Florinsky
G. Katkov
M. Ferro
P. Gatrell
P. Gatrell
WEEK 3
The Eastern Front (essential)
The End of the Russian Empire
Russia 1917:The February Revolution (chs.1-8)
The February Revolution (ch. 1)
Russia’s First World War 1914-17: A Social and Economic History
A Whole Empire Walking
THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION
Seminar Questions
Why did Tsarism collapse in February 1917? Was its collapse planned by
opponents or was it spontaneous? What role was played by the military. The
Duma, the Left?
Seminar Reading
G. Katkov
M. Ferro
O. Anweiler
R. Pipes
C. Read
E.N.Burdzhalov
WEEK 4
Russia 1917:The February Revolution (ch 9-16)
The February Revolution (chs 2-6)
The Soviets (ch 2 & 3)
Revolutionary Russia chs by Schapiro & Anweiler)
From Tsar to Soviets (ch. III)
‘Russia’s Second Revolution: The February 1917 uprising in
Petrograd’ in M.Miller The Russian Revolution: Essential
Readings pp. 39-72
THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE PROVISIONAL
GOVERNMENT AND THE SOVIET
Seminar questions
What were the respective roles of the Provisional Government and the Petrograd
Soviet? What were the main political developments in the first months of the
revolution?
Documents
Documents of the February Revolution from Vernadsky & Pushkarev pp.873-884
V.I. Lenin
The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution;
The Dual Power;
WEEK 5
RUSSIAN SOCIETY IN MID 1917
I - The Peasantry
Seminar questions
What role was the peasantry playing in the development of the revolution? What
impact did it have on them and they on it? Is peasant action best described in
terms of them using ‘weapons of the weak’?
Seminar Reading
C. Read
O.Figes
D. Raleigh
J. Keep
G. Gill
R. Service (ed.)
WEEK 6
From Tsar to Soviets (ch. V)
‘The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its language in the
village’ in Wade, R. Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches
pp.91-118 (also in Miller pp.73-103)
Revolution on the Volga: 1917 in Saratov
The Russian Revolution (chs. 5-19)
Peasants and Government in the Russian Revolution
Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution (chapters by
Perrie & Channon)
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WEEK 7
RUSSIAN SOCIETY IN MID 1917
II - Workers & Soldiers
Seminar questions
What role did workers play in the revolution? How did the revolution affect the
lives of ordinary workers? What role did soldiers play in the revolution? Were
soldiers motivated by peasants’, workers’ or their own agenda
Seminar Reading
S. Smith
S. Smith
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WEEK 8
Red Petrograd
‘Petrograd in 1917: the View from Below’ in Wade, R.
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches pp13-32
Moscow Workers in 1917
October 1917 (esp. chs. 4-7)
Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917
D. Koenker
M. Ferro
D. Koenker &
W. Rosenberg (ed.)
D. Koenker &
‘Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917’ in Wade, R.
W. Rosenberg
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches pp.33-45
R. Service (ed.)
Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution chapters by
Service & Mawdsley
C. Read
From Tsar to Soviets (ch. IV & VI)
T. Hasegawa
‘Crime, police and mob justice in Petrograd during
the Russian revolutions of 1917’ in Wade, R.
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches pp.46-72
POLITICAL PARTIES IN 1917
Seminar questions
What constituted a political party in revolutionary conditions? What were the main
features of the outlook and structure of the main parties? Did party divisions
coincide with the main policy divisions in Russia in 1917? What factors
contributed to the success and failure of the main parties?
Seminar Reading
C. Read
R. Service
A. Rabinowitch
W. Rosenberg
Z. Galili
Kolonitskii, B.I.
Melançon, M.S.
Hickey, M.C.
WEEK 9
From Tsar to Soviets (ch. VII, pp.145-169)
The Bolshevik Party in Revolution
Prelude to Revolution
The Liberals in the Russian Revolution
Menshevik Leaders in the Russian Revolution
‘ “Democracy” in the political consciousness of the
February revolution’ , in Wade, R.
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches pp.75-90
‘From rhapsody to threnody: Russia’s Provisional
Government in Socialist-Revolutionary eyes’, in Wade, R.
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches pp143-158
‘The rise and fall of Smolensk’s moderate socialists: the
politics of class and the rhetoric of crisis in 1917’ in Wade R.
Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches pp.159-184
THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION - THE BOLSHEVIK ROUTE TO POWER
Seminar questions
What was Lenin’s role in the seizure of power? Was the October revolution
planned or improvised? Why did the Provisional Government fall so easily? What
role did the popular movement play in the Soviet takeover? What was Lenin’s role
in the seizure of power? Was the October revolution planned or improvised? Why
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did the Provisional Government fall so easily? What role did the popular
movement play in the Soviet takeover?
Documents
V.I. Lenin
Writings of September-October 1917 Between the Two Revolutions
(pp 380-418)
Minutes of the Bolshevik Central Committee Meetings (pp 85-110)
Seminar Reading
A. Rabinowitch
The Bolsheviks Come to Power
(note extract from this in Miller with short bibliography and
brief i.d.’s of participants)
M. Ferro
October 1917 (ch.8)
(R. Daniels Red October is also worth looking at)
C. Read
From Tsar to Soviets (ch. VIII (p. 169-176)
J. White
‘Lenin, Trotskii and the arts of insurrection: the
Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, 11-13 October
1917’ in Wade, R.Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches
pp.187-210
R.Wade
‘ “All Power to the Soviets” the Bolsheviks take power’
in Wade R.Revolutionary Russia:New Approaches pp.211-42
C.Read
Lenin: A Revolutionary Life (Ch 5)
WEEK 10
THE FIRST STEPS - OCTOBER 1917-SPRING 1918
RUSSIA DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF BOLSHEVIK RULE
Seminar reading
How do the various elements in Russian society react to the October Revolution?
By what methods and with what success do the Bolsheviks establish their power?
Was the dissolution of the Constituent assembly important?
Seminar Reading
J. Keep
The Russian Revolution (chs 20-33)
L. Schapiro
The Origin of the Communist Autocracy (chs V-VI)
R. Service
The Bolshevik Party in Revolution (chs 2-3)
Brovkin, Lewin, Rosenberg debate Slavic Review vol 44 pp 213-257 + cross refs
V. Brovkin
The Mensheviks After October
C. Read
From Tsar to Soviets (ch VIII pp 177-91)
L.G.Protasov
‘The All-Russian Constituent Assembly and the
Democratic alternative: two views of the
problem’ in Wade R.Revolutionary Russia:New
Approaches pp.243-6
W.Rosenberg
‘Russian labour and Bolshevik Power: Social Dimensions
Of Protest after October’ in Miller, M The Russian
Revolution: The Essential Readings pp.149-79
Documents
The Second Congress of Soviets (Bunyan & Fisher pp 119-138)
The Election to the Constituent Assembly
V.M. Chernov Russia's one-day Parliament (pp 176-182)
Extraordinary Meeting of Delegates of Factories and Plants in the City of Petrograd
(pp 237-241)
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SPRING TERM
THE BOLSHEVIKS IN POWER: THE FOUNDING OF A NEW ORDER
Introduction & Background Reading:
W.H. Chamberlin
The Russian Revolution vol II
D. Koenker, W. Rosenberg,
Party, State and Society in the Russian Civil War
R. Suny
E. Mawdsley
The Russian Civil War
W. Bruce Lincoln
Red Victory
R. Pipes
The Bolsheviks in Power
WEEK 11
INTRODUCTION: THE CIVIL WAR
Seminar questions
Why did the Civil War break out? Who were the Whites? What were the strengths
and weaknesses of the White movement? Why were the Whites defeated?
WEEK 12
Documents
A. Denikin
Lukomskii
The White Army (pp 26-35)
Memoirs (pp 204-207)
Seminar Reading
W.H. Chamberlin
E. Mawdsley
C. Read
The Russian Revolution vol II
The Russian Civil War
From Tsar to Soviets (191-198)
CRISES OF SPRING & SUMMER 1918
Seminar questions
What was the political significance of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? Why were
oppositions forming in the Bolshevik Party? Why did Lenin turn towards ‘iron
proletarian discipline’? What did he mean by it?
Documents
V.I. Lenin
Seminar Reading
S. Smith
L. Schapiro
R. Service
E.H. Carr
J. Keep
WEEK 13
The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government (pp 645684);
Draft Plan of Scientific and Technical Work
Red Petrograd (ch. 10)
The Origin of the Communist Autocracy (chs V-IV)
The Bolshevik Party in Revolution (ch III)
The Bolshevik Revolution (ch V)
The Russian Revolution (Part IV pp 249-383)
SOVIET CONSOLIDATION - PARTY, STATE
Seminar questions
What developments were occurring within the party in 1918-1919? What
developments were occurring in the state in 1918-19? How was the relationship of
the party to society changing in 1918 and 1919? What relationship was
developing between party and state in 1918-1919?
Seminar Reading
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C. Read
E.H. Carr
L. Schapiro
R. Service
R.V. Daniels
S. Cohen
N.Bukharin
WEEK 14
From Tsar to Soviets (ch IX)
The Bolshevik Revolution (chs 6-9 + Note A)
History of the CPSU (ch 10)
The Bolshevik Party in Revolution (chs 3 & 5)
The Conscience of the Revolution(chs 4 & 5)
Bukharin & the Bolshevik Revolution (ch III)
ABC of Communism (a key source for Weeks 13-18)
THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT I - THE PARTY.
THE STATE
Seminar questions
As for Week 13
Documents
Declaration of Rights of the Working and Exploited People (Akhaphin p76-78)
Resolutions & Decisions of the VIII Party Congress (McNeal pp 54-89)
Resolution & Decisions of the VIII and IX Party Conferences (McNeal pp 99-113)
WEEK 15
SOVIET CONSOLIDATION - SOCIETY, ECONOMY- WAR COMMUNISM
Seminar questions
What was ‘war communism’ and why was it adopted? How successful was ‘war
communism’? What social impact had the revolution had 1918-20? What role was
played by the black market in these years?
Seminar Reading
C. Read
E.H. Carr
A. Nove
S. Malle
O. Figes
M. McAuley
B.E.Clements
S.Fitzpatrick
From Tsar to Soviets (ch. X)
The Bolshevik Revolution (chs 16&17)
An Economic History of the U.S.S.R.(ch 3)
The Economic Organisation of War Communism
Peasant Russia, Civil War
Bread and Justice
‘Bolshevik Women’ in Miller, M The Russian
Revolution: The Essential Readings pp.180-205
‘Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity
In Soviet Russia’ in Miller, M The Russian
Revolution: The Essential Readings pp.206-35
WEEK 16
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WEEK 17
DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT - II THE ECONOMY, SOCIETY
Seminar questions
As for Week 15
Documents
V.I. Lenin
Economics and Politics in the Era of the Dictatorship of the
Proletariat; Integrated Economic Plan
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WEEK 18
EDUCATION, PROPAGANDA, CULTURE: INTELLECTUAL LIFE AND
CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Seminar questions
How important was culture in Lenin’s outlook? What did Lenin mean by culture?
What problems faced the government in developing the education system? What
value do artistic sources have for the historian?
Seminar Reading
S. Fitzpatrick
R. Suny
D. Orlovsky
S. Fitzpatrick
C. Claudin-Urondo
L. Trotsky
C. Read
P. Kenez
S. Fitzpatrick
Figes, O
& Kolonitskii, B
Debate on class, culture and politics in the Early Soviet
Years Slavic Review, p.599-626, vol 47
The Commissariat of Enlightenment
(chs 5 & 6 plus ch 9 pp 236-255)
Lenin and Cultural Revolution
Literature & Revolution (esp chs I-III & VI-VIII)
Culture & Power in Revolutionary Russia (chs 2 & 3)
The Propaganda State
The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary
Russia
Interpreting the Russian Revolution;
The Language and Symbols of 1917
Documents
Degrees on Education; Freedom of Conscience and Monuments (Akhapkin pp 6061, 88-89, 120, 140)
E. Zamyatin
The Church of God & The Cave
Aleksandr Blok
The Twelve
V.I. Lenin
On Proletarian Culture
WEEK 19
1921 - THE END OF THE REVOLUTION?
Seminar questions
What were the causes of the multiple crises of late 1920-21? What response did
the government and party make to the crises? How secure was the Soviet
government in 1921? Does 1921 mark the end of the revolution?
Documents
The Kronstadt Rebellion (Avrich pp 158-168)
V.I. Lenin, Speeches at the Tenth Party Congress (pp 557-561)
X Party Congress in R.McNeal Resolutions and Decisions of the CPSU vol II p119130
Seminar Reading
C. Read
From Tsar to Soviets (chs 6 & 7)
I Getzler
Kronstadt (chs 6 & 7)
O. Radkey
The Unknown Civil War
L. Schapiro
The Origin of the Communist Autocracy (chs XIV-XVIII)
R. Service
The Bolshevik Party in Revolution (chs 6 & 7)
R. Service
Lenin: a political life (vol. 3)
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WEEK 20
OVERVIEW SEMINAR –The historiography of the Russian Revolution
An examination of broad appraisals of the Revolution and an analysis of the main
schools of interpretation. (Preparation for the third question on Paper 1)
Seminar Reading
E. Acton
Rethinking the Russian Revolution
S. Smith
‘Writing the History of the Russian Revolution after the
Fall of Communism’ in Miller, M The Russian Revolution: The
Essential Readings pp.259-81
C.Read
‘Writing the History of the Russian Revolution?’ Studies in
History, Institute of Historical Research website, 1997
(http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/articles/russia.html)
C.Read
‘The Russian Revolution After the Fall of Communism’, review
article, The Historical Journal vol. 40 no.4, pp.1127-1134, 1998.
C.Read
‘In Search of Liberal Tsarism: The Historiography of Autocratic
Decline’ The Historical Journal 45, 1, (2002) (Cambridge)
Holquist, P ‘What is Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution?
State Practices and New Style Politics 1914-21’ in Hoffman, D. and
Kotsonis, Y. Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices
SUMMER TERM
Revision/gobbet preparation seminar(s) will also be arranged.
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PART I
Items in brackets may not be in Warwick library.
obtained from me.
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They can be
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(ii) General
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36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
(v)
Political Memoirs
The Russian Revolution of
1917:contemporary accounts
Moscow, 1911-33
An Ambassador's Memoirs
Story of a Life
Witnesses to the Russian
Revolution
Price, M.P.
My Reminiscences of the Russian
Revolution
Robien, L. de
Diary of a Diplomat in Russia
Rodzianko, M.V.
The Reign of Rasputin
Rosmer, A.
Lenin's Moscow
Serge, V.
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Steinberg, I
Souvenirs d'un Commissar du
Peuple
Sheridan, C.
Russian Portraits
Sukhanov, N.N.
The Russian Revolution (2 vols)
Trotsky, L.
My Life
Vandervelde, E.
Three Aspects of the Russian
Revolution
Williams, A.R.
Through the Russian Revolution
Wilton, R.
Russia's Agony
Wrangel, N.
Memoirs of Baron N. Wrangel
Woytinsky, W.S.
Stormy Passage
Beatty, Bessie
The Red Heart of Russia
Bruce Lockhart, R.B. The Two Revolutions:an eye
witness study of Russia, 1917
Chernova-Kolbasina, O.E. New Horizons:reminiscences
of the Russian Revolution
Ilyin-Zhenevsky, A.F. From the February Revolution to
the October Revolution 1917
Piatnitsky, O.
Memoirs of a Bolshevik
Price, M.P.
War & Revolution in Asiatic
Russia
Liberman, S.I.
Building Lenin's Russia
Anet, C.
Through the Russian Revolution
Morizet, A.
Chez Lenine et Trotski
Gurko, V.I.
Memories and Impressions of War
and Revolutionary Russia
Pitcher H. (ed.)
Witnesses of the Russian
Revolution
Wells H.G.
Russia in the Shadows
Knüfken Hermann
Von Kiel bis Leningrad:
Erinnerung eines revolutioären
Matrösen 1917-1930 mit
Dokumenten, 80 Fotos und
Faksimiles
Accounts by Participants
1. Abramovitch, R.R.
2. Chernov, V.
3. Reed, J.
4. Trotsky, L.
Revolution
5. Shliapnikov, A.G.
6. Raskolnikov, F.
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The Soviet Revolution, 1917-39
The Great Russian Revolution
Ten Days that Shook the World
History of the Russian
On the Eve of 1917
Kronstadt and Petrograd in 1917
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(vi) Biography
1. Cohen, S.
Bukharin and the Bolshevik
Revolution
2. Deutscher, I.
The Prophet Armed:Trotsky,187921
3. Getzler, I.
Martov
4. Haupt,G & Marie J.J. Makers of the Russian Revolution
5. Balabanoff, A.
Impressions of Lenin
6. Deutscher, I.
Lenin's Childhood
7. Deutscher, I.
Not by Politics Alone: the other
Lenin
8. Krupskaya, N.
Memoirs of Lenin
9. Schapiro, L &
Lenin: Man, Theorist and
Reddaway, P.
Leader
10. Shub, D.
Lenin
11. Shukman, H.
Lenin and the Russian Revolution
12. Theen, R.
Lenin
13. Trotsky, L.
On Lenin
14. Ulam, A.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks
15. Valentinov, N.
Early Years of Lenin
16. Valentinov, N.
Encounters with Lenin
17. Zetkin, K.
Reminiscences of Lenin
18. Lunacharsky, A.V.
Revolutionary Silhouettes
19. Deutscher, I.
Stalin
20. Hingley, R.
Joseph Stalin: Man and Legend
21. Souvarine, B.
Stalin
22. Trotsky, L.
Stalin
23. Tucker, R.C.
Stalin as Revolutionary, 18791929
24. Ulam, A.
Stalin
25. Wolfe, B.
Three Who Made a Revolution
26. Wyndham, F.
Trotsky: a documentary biography
27. Enteen, G.M.
The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat:
M.N. Pokrovskii and the Society
of Marxist Historians
28. Howe, I.
Trotsky
29. Knei-Paz, B.
The Social and Political
Thoughts of Leon Trotsky
30. Wistrich, R.
Trotsky
31. Cliff, T.
Lenin (4 vols)
32. Farnsworth, B.
Alexandra Kollontai
33. Pipes, R.
Struve: Liberal on the Right
(vol.2)
34. Porter, C.
Alexandra Kollontai
35. Clements, Barbara C.
Bolshevik Feminist: The Life
of Alexandra Kollontai
36. Service, R.
Lenin: A Political Life (3 vols)
36a Service, R.
Lenin: a biography
37. McNeal, R.
Stalin: Man and Ruler
38. Williams, Beryl
Lenin
39. White, James D.
Lenin:The Practice and Theory of
Revolution
40. Thatcher, I.
Trotsky
41. Weisman, Susan
Victor Serge: The Course is Set
on Hope
42. Sontag, Susan
‘Victor Serge’ Times Literary
Supplement
9/4/04 p.13
43. Read, Christopher
Lenin: a Revolutionary Life
44. Turton, Katy
Forgotten Lives: The Role of
Lenin's Sisters in the Russian
Revolution, 1864-1937
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PART II
The Course of the Revolution
II
The autocracy and the war
(i)
1.
Katkov, G.
et al eds
Stavrou, T.
Russia Enters the Twentieth
Century
Russia under the Last Tsar
3.
Almedingen, M.E.
4.
Badaev, A.E.
5.
6.
War
7.
8.
Florinsky, M.
Golovine, N.N.
An Unbroken Unity: a memoir of
Grand-Duchess Serge of Russia,
1864-1918
The Bolsheviks in the Tsarist
Duma
The End of the Russian Empire
The Russian Army in the World
2.
2a. Gatrell, Peter
9.
Graham, S.
Gronsky, P. &
Astrov, N.
Haimson, L.
10. Hamm, M.F.
11. Kohn, S. &
Meyendorff, A.F.
12. Maklakov, B.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
21a
Russia and the World
The War and the Russian
Government
'The problem of social stability
in pre-revolutionary Russia'
Slavic Review, vol XXIII, pp
619-42 and XXIV pp 1-22
'Liberal politics in wartime
Russia: an analysis of the
Progressive Bloc', Slavic
Review, vol. XXXIII
The Cost of the War to Russia
'On the fall of Tsardom', Slavic
and East European Review, vol 18
pp 73-92
Meyendorff, A.
The Background of the Russian
Revolution
Mossolov, A.A.
At the Court of the Last Tsar Memoirs
Pares, B.
The Fate of the Russian Monarchy
Rivet, C.
Le Dernier Romanoff
Roosa, R.A.
'Russian industrialists and
"state socialism" 1906-17'
Soviet Studies, vol 23, pp. 394417 (see also discussion between
Roosa and J.D. White in Soviet
Studies, vol 24, pp 414-25
Sontag, J.P.
'Tsarist debts and Tsarist
foreign policy', Slavic Review,
vol XXVII,no. 4, pp 529-41
Tuve, J.E.
'Changing directions in RussianAmerican economic
relations,1912-17', Slavic
Review, vol XXXI no. 1, pp 52-70
Wallace, Sir Donald M. Russia
Wolfe, B.
'War comes to Russia' in An
Ideology in Power, pp 95-103
(Cherniavsky, M.
Prologue to Revolution)
22. Yaney, G.L.
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Russia’s First World War 1914-17:
A Social and Economic History
'Some aspects of the Imperial
Russian government on the eve of
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23. Zeman, Z.
24. Stone, N.
25. Solzhenitsyn, A.
26. Pearson, R.
27. Fallows, T.
28. Aleksinskii, G.
29. Siegelbaum, L.H.
30. Gatrell, P.
31. Gatrell,Peter
32. Seregny, Scott
33. Thatcher, Ian D.
34. Thatcher, Ian D.
the first world war', Slavonic
and East European Review, vol
43,pp 68-91
Germany and the Revolution in
Russia 1915-18 (documents
The Eastern Front
August 1914
The Russian Moderates and the
Crisis of Tsarism, 1914-17
'Politics and the war effort in
Russia: the Union of zemstvos
and the organisation of the food
supply 1914-1916', Slavic
Review, vol 37,no. 1
Modern Russia (1914)
Politics of Industrial
Mobilisation in Russia 1914-17
Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia 1900-1914
A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees
in Russia during World War I
‘A Wager on the Peasantry:
Anti-Zemstvo Riots, Adult
Education and the Russian
Village During World War One:
Stavropol’ Province’ Slavonic
and East European Review vol.79
no.1 Jan 2001 pp.90-126
Leon Trotsky and World War One
Late Imperial Russia: Problems
and Prospects
(See also memoirs by Knox, Francis, Buchanan, Broido,
Trotsky, Brusilov, Wrangel, Krasnov, Pautovsky,
Miliukov,
Rodzianko and Paléologue in Part I section (IV) above
and
Price (no. 40)
II
(ii) The February Revolution
1.
Anin, D.S.
2.
Ferro, M
3.
Hasegawa, T.
4.
Hasegawa, T.
5.
Katkov, G.
6.
Kennan, G.
'The February Revolution: was
the collapse inevitable?' Soviet
Studies vol. 18, pp 435-57
The Russian Revolution of
February 1917
'The formation of the militia in
the February Revolution', Slavic
Review, vol. 32, pp 303-23
'The formation of the Petrograd
Soviet: the masses and the elite
in the February Revolution'
(unpublished, I have a copy)
Russia 1917: The February
Revolution
'The Breakdown of the Tsarist
Autocracy' in Pipes,
Revolutionary Russia, pp 1-33
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7.
Wildman, A.K.
8.
Hasegawa, T.
9.
White, J.D.
10. Hasegawa, T.
11. Melancon, M.
12. Reply to Melancon
'The February Revolution in the
Russian Army', Soviet Studies,
vol. 22, pp. 3-23
'Bolsheviks and the formation of
the Petrograd Soviet in the
February revolution',Soviet
Studies vol. 29, no. 1
'The Sormovo-Nikolaev
Zemlyachestva in the February
Revolution',Soviet Studies,
XXX1, no. 4
The February Revolution
'Who Wrote What and When?
Proclamations of the February
Revolution in Petrograd Soviet
Studies XL No. 3 pp 479-522
(J.D. White and D. Longley)
Soviet Studies XL1 No. 4 pp
602-644
(iii)From February to October.
Governments and the Soviets
1.
Anweiler, O.
1a
Kolonitskii,B
2.
3.
Anweiler, O.
Asher, H.
4.
Boyd, J.R.
5.
Collins, D.N.
6.
Elkin, B.
7.
Elkin, B.
8.
Feldman, R.S.
9.
Laue, T. von
10. Morris, L.P.
18
The Provisional
'The political ideology of the
leaders of the Petrograd Soviet
in the Spring of 1917', in
Pipes, Revolutionary Russia, pp
145-163
‘ “Democracy” in the Political
Consciousness of the February
Revolution’, Slavic Review
Vol.57 no.1 Spring 1998
The Soviets
'The Kornilov Affair: a
reinterpretation', Russian
Review vol. 29, pp 286-300
(xerox)
'The origins of Order No. 1'
Soviet Studies, vol. 19 pp 35972
'A note on the numerical
strength of the Red Guards in
October 1917'Soviet Studies, vol
24, pp 270
'Further notes on the policies
of the Kerensky
government',Slavic Review XXV
no. 2 p 323
'The Kerensky government and its
fate', Slavic Review vol XXIII
no 4 p 717
'The Russian General Staff and
the June 1917 offensive', Soviet
Studies, vol 19 pp 520-43
'Westernisation, Revolution and
the search for a basis of
authority in Russia in 1917'
Soviet Studies, vol 19, pp 155180
'The Russians, the allies and
the war, February-July, 1917'
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Slavonic and East European
Review, vol 50 pp 29-48
11. Mosse, W.E.
'Interlude: the Russian
Provisional Government, 1917'
Soviet Studies, no. 15, p 408
12. Mosse, W.E.
Pethybridge and Riha, 'Debate on
Provisional Government', Soviet
Studies, vol 19, pp 100-121
13. Rabinowitch, A.
Prelude to Revolution: the
Petrograd Bolsheviks and the
July 1917 uprising
14. Rosenberg, W.G.
'The Russian Municipal Duma
elections: a preliminary
computation of returns', Soviet
Studies, vol 21, pp 131-63
15. Schapiro, L.
'The Political thought of the
First Provisional Government' in
Pipes, Revolutionary Russia, pp
123-145
16.Strakhovsky, L.I.
'Was there a Kornilov rebellion?
A reappraisal of the evidence',
Slavonic and East European
Review, vol 33, pp 372-396
17. Wade, R.A.
The Russian Search for Peace:
February-October 1917
18. Wade, R.
'Why October? the Russian search
for peace in 1917' Soviet
Studies, vol 20, pp 36-45
19. Warth, R.D.
The Allies and the Russian
Revolution
20. White, J.D.(ed)
'A document on the Kornilov
affair: Ukraintsev's Memoir',
Soviet Studies, vol. 25, pp 28398
21. White, J.D.
'The Kornilov affair - a study
in counter-revolution', Soviet
Studies vol. 20, pp 187-205
22. 'A survey of Russia during the three months of the
revolution (March to May) in
Vulliamy, p 231-270 (I, iii, 21)
23. Nabokov, V.
Vladimir Nabokov and the Russian
Provisional Government
24. Rabinowitch, A.
The Bolsheviks come to Power
25. Woytinsky, W.
'The Gatchina Campaign' (memoir)
Soviet Studies, XXXII, no. 2
26. Ferro, M.
October 1917
27. Johnston, R.H.
Tradition versus Revolution:
Russia and the Balkans in 1917
28. Raleigh, D.J.
'Revolutionary Politics in
Provincial Russia: the Tsaritsyn
'Republic' in 1917' Slavic
Review vol 40
29. Hickey, Michael C.
‘Local Government and State
Authority in the Provinces:
Smolensk, February-June 1917’
Slavic Review vol. 55 note pp
863-881
33.Sarah Badcock
‘ “We’re for the Muzhiks
Party!” Peasant Support for the
Socialist Revolutionary Party
19
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34. Wade, Rex
II
(iv) The October Revolution to Constituent Assembly
1.
2.
Daniels, R.V.
Geyer, B.D.
3.
4.
Melgunov, S.P.
Rabinowitch, A.
5.
Saul, N.W.
6.
Arapkhin, Yu (ed)
7.
Dando, W.A.
8.
Kochan, L.
9.
Radkey, O.H.
10. Keep, J. (ed)
11. Radkey, O.H.
II
20
during 1917’ Europe-Asia Studies
vol.53 no.1 2001 pp.133-150
Revolutionary Russia: New
Approaches
(v)
Red October
'The Bolshevik insurrection in
Petrograd' in Pipes,
Revolutionary Russia, pp 209-228
The Bolshevik Seizure of Power
'The Petrograd garrison and the
Bolshevik seizure of power' in
Revolution and Politics in
Russia, pp 172-191
'Lenin's decision to seize
power: the influence of events
in Finland', Soviet Studies, vol
24, pp 491-505
First Decrees of Soviet Power,
Nov 1917-July 1918
'A map of the election to the
Russian Constituent Assembly of
1917' Slavic Review, vol XXV, p
314
'Kadet policy in 1917 and the
Constituent Assembly', Slavonic
and East European Review, vol
45, pp 183-93
The Election to the Russian
Constituent Assembly of 1917
The Debate on Soviet Power
Russia Goes to the Polls
Consolidation of Bolshevik Power, 1918-21
1.
Abrams, R.
2.
Brinkley, G.C.
3.
Carr, E.H.
4.
Day, R.B.
5.
Dobb, M.
6.
7.
8.
Fainsod, M.
Footman, D.
Kenez, P.
9.
Kenez, P.
'Political recruitment and local
government: the local soviets of
the RSFSR, 1918-21', Soviet
Studies, vol 19, pp 573-600
The Volunteer Army and Allied
Intervention in South Russia,
1917-21
'Origin and status of the
Cheka', Soviet Studies, vol 10,
pp 1-11
Leon Trotsky and the Politics of
Economic Isolation
Soviet Economic Development
since 1917
How Russia is Ruled
The Civil War in Russia
The Civil War in South Russia, 2
vols
'The Relations between the
Volunteer Army and Georgia 191820', Slavonic and East European
Review
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9a
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
26a
27.
28.
29.
30.
Ainsworth, J.
‘Sidney Reilly’s reports From
South Russia’ December 1918March 1919,’ Europe-Asia Studies
Vol 50 no.8 December 1998 pp
1447-1470
Melgunov, S.P.
Red Terror in Russia
Nove, A.
An Economic History of the USSR
Oppenheim, S.A.
'The Supreme Economic Council
1917-21' in Soviet Studies, vol
25, pp 3-27
Schapiro, L.
The Origin of the Communist
Autocracy
Scott, E.J.
'The Cheka', St Antony's Papers,
no. 1, pp 1-23
Solzhenistsyn, A.
The Gulag Archipelago
Trotsky, L.
Terrorism and Communism (also
called The Defence of Terrorism
Leggett, G.H.
'Lenin, Terror and the Political
Police', Survey vol 21 no. 4
(97), pp 157-187
Bradley, J.
The Civil War in Russia
Edmondson, C.M.
'The politics of hunger: the
Soviet response to famine, 1921,
Soviet Studies, vol 29, no. 4
Gerson, L.D.
Secret Police in Lenin's Russia
C. Duval
'Yakov M. Sverdlov and the AllRussian Central Executive
Committee of the Soviet. Oct
1917-July 1918, Soviet Studies,
vol XXX1, no. 1, pp 3-22
Bettelheim, C.
Class Struggles in the U.S.S.R.,
vol 1, 1917-23
Clemens, B.E.
'Kollontai's contribution to the
Worker's Opposition', Russian
History, vol 2, no. 2 pp 191-206
Rigby, T.H.
Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom
1917-22
Leggett. G.
The Cheka
"Russia Labour & Bolshevik Power after October".
Debate between W. Rosenberg, M.
Lewin and V. Brovkin, Slavic
Review, vol 44 no. 2, p 213-257
(Plus references to earlier
articles on this theme by these
scholars)
Swain, G.
‘The Disillusioning of the
Revolution’s Praetorian Guard:
The Latvian Riflemen, SummerAutumn 1918’, Europe-Asia
Studies Vol 51 no.4 June 1999
pp. 667-686
S. Malle
The Economic Organisation of War
Communism
E. Mawdsley
The Russian Civil War
Farber, S.
Before Stalinism: the Rise and
Fall of Soviet Democracy
Koenker, D.,
Party, State and Society in
D. Rosenberg.,
the Russian Civil War
R. Suny
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31. Brovkin, V.
Behind the Front Lines of the
Civil War: Political Parties and
Social Movements 1918-22
32. Mayer, Arno
The Furies: Violence and Terror
in the French and Russian
Revolutions
33.Holquist, Peter
‘Information is the Alpha and
Omega of Our Work: Bolshevik
Surveillance in the Pan-European
Context’ Journal of Modern
History 69 (1997) 415-450
(See also separate sections on non-bolshevik political
movements in Part III below)
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PART III
TOPICS
iii
The Peasantry, 1914-21
(i)
1.
Antsiferov, A.N.
et al
2. Lewin, M.
Power
3. Owen, L.A.
4.
Robinson, G.T.
5.
Shanin, T.
6.
Wolfe, E.R.
7.
Gill, G.
8. Gill, G.
9.
Gill, G.
10. Kingston-Mann, E.
11. Raleigh, D.
12. Figes, O.
13. Pethybridge, R.
14. Figes, O.
15. Channon, J.
16. Moon, David
17.Channon, John
Russian agriculture during the
War
Russian Peasants and Soviet
The Russian Peasant Movement,
1906-17
Rural Russia under the Old
Regime
The Awkward Class: a study of
the Russian Peasant Household
1910-1925
Peasant Wars of the Twentieth
Century
'The Mainsprings of Peasant
Action in 1917', Soviet Studies,
Jan 1978, vol XXX no. 1
Peasants and Government in the
Russian Revolution
'The failure of rural policy in
Russia: February-October 1917',
Slavic Review, vol 37, no. 2,
Jan 1978
Lenin & the Problem of Marxist
Peasant Revolution
Revolution on the Volga
Peasant Russian Civil War
'Social & Political Attitudes of
Peasants in Kursk Guberniia at
the start of N.E.P.' S.E.E.R.
(63), pp. 372-387
'The Village and Volost' Soviet
Elections of 1919', Soviet
Studies, XLI, No. 1 pp 21-45
'From Muzhik to Kolkhoznik:
Some Recent Western and Soviet
Studies of Peasants in Late
Imperial and Early Soviet
Russia'. S.E.E.R. Jan. 1992,
vol. 70 no. 1, pp. 127-139
The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930
: The World the Peasants Made
‘The Bolsheviks and the
Peasantry: the Land Question
during the First Eight Months of
Soviet Rule’ Slavonic and East
European Review 66 (1988) 593624
(ii) Workers, 1914-21
1.
Augustine, W.R.
2.
Avrich, P.
'Russia's railwaymen,July-Oct
1917' Slavic Review, XXIV, p 666
'The Bolshevik Revolution and
workers' control in Russian
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3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
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industry', Slavic Review, vol
XXII, p 47
Bobroff, A.
'The Bolsheviks and working
women', Soviet Studies, vol. 25,
pp 540-67
Dewar, M.
Labour Policy in USSR, 1917-28
Ferro, M.
'The aspirations of Russian
society in Pipes, Revolutionary
Russia, pp 183-208
Kaplan, F.I.
Bolshevik Ideology and the
Ethics of Soviet Labour
Mendel, A.P.
'Peasant and worker on the eve
of the First World War', Slavic
Review, XXIV, p 23
Milligan, S.
'The Petrograd Bolsheviks and
social insurance, 1914-17',
Soviet Studies, vol 20, pp 36974
Narkiewicz, O.
Making of the Soviet State
Apparatus
Pethybridge, R.
Social Prelude to Stalinism
Sorenson, J.B.
Life and Death of Soviet Trade
Unionism
Koenker, D.
'The evolution of Party
consciousness: the case of the
Moscow workers', Soviet Studies,
Jan. 1978, vol XXX, no. 1
Berk, S.M.
'The "class tragedy" of Izhevsk:
working class opposition to
Bolshevism in 1918', Russian
History, vol 2, no. 2, pp 176190
Perrins, M.
'Rabkrin and Workers' Control in
Russia', European Studies
Review, vol 10, no. 2, April
1980
Koenker, D.
Moscow Workers and the 1917
Revolution
Smith, S.A.
Red Petrograd
Mandel, D.
Petrograd Workers and the Fall
of the Old Regime
Bonnell, V.
Roots of Rebellion
Bonnell, V.
The Russian Worker
Johnson, R.E.
Peasant and Proletarian
Sirianni, C.
Workers' Control and Socialist
Democracy: The Soviet Experience
McAuley, M.
Bread and Justice
Brovkin, V.
'Workers' Unrest and the
Bolsheviks' Response' Slavic
Review, vol 49, No. 3, Fall 1990
pp 350-73
Debate on Social Identity (Haimson, Rosenberg,
Rieber) in Slavonic Review, vol
47, No. 1 pp 1-38
Husband, W.B.
'Local Industry in Upheaval: the
Ivanovo-kineshma Textile Strike'
Slavic Review, vol 47, pp 448463
Koenker, D.,
Strikes and Revolution in
Russia,
Rosenberg, W.
1917
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27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
Article by R. Service
in R. Service (ed) Society and Politics in the
Russian Revolution
Philips, L.
Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink
and Worker Culture in St.
Petersburg 1900-1929
Haimson, L.
Russia’s Revolutionary
Experience
Steinberg, Mark
‘Workers on the Cross: religious
Imagination in the Writings of
Russian Workers, 1910-1924’
Russian Review 53 (1994) 213-239
Aves, Jonathan
Workers Against Lenin: Labour
Protest and the Bolshevik
Dictatorship 1920-22 (1996)
Pirani, Simon
The Russian Revolution in
Retreat 1920-24: Soviet Workers
and the New Communist Elite
(iii)The Armed Forces, 1914-21
1. Erickson, J.
1a Sanborn, Joshua
The Soviet High Command
Drafting the Russian
Nation:Military Conscription,
Total War and Mass Politics,
1905-1925
2. Ferro, M.
'The Russian soldier in 1917:
undisciplined, patriotic and
revolutionary', Slavic Review,
vol XXX, pp 483-512
3. Kenez, P.
'Changes in the social
composition of the Officer Corps
during World War I', Russian
Review, vol 31, pp 369-75
(xerox)
4. Kenez, P.
'The Russian Officer Corps
before the revolution: the
military mind', Russian Review,
vol 31, pp 226-36 (xerox)
5. Longley, D.A.
'Officers and men: a study of
the development of political
attitudes among the sailors of
the Baltic Fleet in 1917',
Soviet Studies, vol 25, pp 28-50
6. (White, D.F.
The Growth of the Red Army)
7. 'The October Revolution in the Baltic Fleet: the
Diary of Captain I I Rengarten'
in Vulliamy, p 131-188, (I.iii
21)
8. 'The Diary of General Boldyrev' in Vulliamy, p 189226 (I.iii 21)
9. Jones, David, R.
'The Officers and the October
Revolution', Soviet Studies, vol
XXVIII, no. 2, pp 202-223
10. Saul, N
Sailors in Revolt: The Russian
Baltic Fleet in 1917
11. Maudsley, E.
The Russian Revolution and the
Baltic Fleet
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12. Wildman, A.K.
13. Trotsky, L.
14. Getzler, I.
The End of the Russian Imperial
Army
Military Writings
Kronstadt 1917-21
(See also Golovine in Part II, section (i) and various
memoirs of Knox, Brusilov et al in Part I, section (iv)
(iv) The Provinces
1.
Keep, J.
2.
Meijer, J.
3.
Mosse, W.E.
4.
Snow, R.E.
5.
Smith, C.F.
6.
Kuromiya, H.
7. Raleigh, Donald
8.Retish, Aaron B.
9.Badcock, Sarah
(v)
'October in the Provinces’ in
Pipes, Revolutionary Russia
'Town and Country in the Civil
War' in Pipes, Revolutionary
Russia
'The Revolution in Saratov,
October-November 1917', Slavonic
and East European Review, vol
49, pp 586-602
'The Russian Revolution of 191718 in Transbaikalia', Soviet
Studies, vol 23, pp 201-15
Vladivostock under Red and White
Rule
Freedom and Terror in the Donbas
1870-1990
Experiencing Russia’s Civil War
Russia's Peasants in Revolution
and Civil War: Citizenship,
Identity and the Creation of the
Soviet State 1914-22
Politics and the People in
Revolutionary Russia: A
Provincial History)
Nationalities, 1914-121
(a) General
1.
Pipes, R.
2.
Boersmer, D.
2a. Smith, Jeremy
2b.
Suny, R. and Martin, T (eds)
(b) Ukraine
2c.
3.
26
Adams, A.E.
Davies, N.
The Formation of the Soviet
Union
The Bolsheviks and the National
and Colonial Question
The Bolsheviks and the National Question 191723
A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making
in the Age of Lenin and Stalin
The Bolsheviks in the Ukraine:
the Second Campaign 1918-19
White Eagle, Red Star
Russian Revolution Module Booklet 2010-11
4.
Fedyshyn, O.J.
5.
6.
Reshetar, J.
(Pidhainy, O.S.
6a. Sullivant, R.S.
6b. Hunczak, T. (ed)
6c. Guthier, S.L.
(c) The Baltic States
7. Ezergailis, A.
8.
Rauch, G. von
9.
Senn, A.E.
10. White, J.D.
11. Ezergailis, A.
12. Upton, A.
13. Alapuro, R.
Germany's drive to the East and
the Ukrainian Revolution, 191718
The Ukrainian Revolution
The Formation of the Ukrainian
Republic)
Soviet Politics and the Ukraine
1917-57
The Ukraine, 1917-21
'The Popular Base of Ukrainian
Nationalism in 1917', Slavic
Review, vol 38, no. 1, p 30-47
'1917 in Latvia: the Bolshevik
Year', Canadian Slavic Studies,
no. 3, 1969, pp 646-62 (xerox)
The Baltic States in the Years
of Independence
The Emergence of Modern
Lithuania
'The Revolution in Lithuania
1918-19', Soviet Studies, vol
23, pp 186-200
The 1917 Revolution in Latvia
The Finnish Revolution 1917-1918
State and Revolution in Finland
(d) Transcaucasia
14. Hovannissian, R.
15. Hovannissian, R.
16. (Kazemzadeh, F.
17.
17a
17b
17c
Suny, R.
Lang, D.M.
Kautsky, K.
Arslanian, A.H. &
Nichols, R.L.
17d Suny, R.
Armenia on the road to
independence 1918
The Republic of Armenia, 1918-19
The Struggle for Transcaucasia
1917-21)
The Baku Commune
A Modern History of Georgia
Georgia
'Nationalism and the Russian
Civil War: the case of Volunteer
Army - Armenian relations 19181920' Soviet Studies, XXXI, no.
4
Revenge of the Past
(e) Central Asia
18. Encausse, H.C. d'
19. Massell, G.J.
20. Park, A.G.
21. (Vaidyanath, R.
'Revolution and Civil War in
Central Asia' in E. Allworth
(ed) Central Asia: a Century of
Russian Rule
The Surrogate Proletariat Moslem women and revolutionary
strategies in Soviet Central
Asia, 1919-29
Bolshevism in Turkestan
The Formation of the Soviet
Central Asian Republic: a study
in Soviet nationalities policy
1917-36)
27
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22. Zenkovsky, S.A.
23. Wheeler, G.
24. Pierce, R.A.
(f) Others
25. Gitelman, Z.Y.
26. Schapiro, L.
27. Longworth, P.
28. O’Rourke, Shane
Pan-Turkism and Islam in Russia
The Modern History of Soviet
Central Asia
Russian Central Asia 1867-1917
Jewish Nationality and Soviet
Politics: the Jewish sections of
the CPSU, 1917-30
'The role of the Jews in the
Russian revolutionary movement',
Slavonic and East European
Review, vol 40, pp 148-168
The Cossacks
Warriors and Peasants; The Don
Cossacks in Late-Imperial Russia
(vi) Bolshevism
1.
Ali, J
2.
Banfield, R.
3.
Clemens, B.C.
4.
5.
6.
Dan, F.
Daniels, R.V.
Duval, C.
7.
Elwood, R.C.
8.
Frankel, J.
9. Gorky, M.
10. Hedlin, M.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Lane, D.
Lenin, V.I.
Lenin, V.I.
Longley, D.
15. Luxemburg, R.
16. Rigby, T.H.
17. Schapiro, L.
18. Brinton, M.
19. Kollontai, A.
28
'Aspects of the RKP(B)
Secretariat, March 1919 to April
1922', Soviet Studies, XXVI, pp
396-416
'Lenin's utopianism: State and
Revolution', Slavic Review, XXX,
p 45-56
'Emancipation through communism:
the ideology of A.M. Kollontai',
Slavic Review, XXXII, no. 2, pp
328-8
The Origins of Bolshevism
The Conscience of the Revolution
'The Bolshevik Secretariat and
Yakob Sverdlov: February to
October 1917', Slavonic and East
European Review, vol 51, pp 4757
Russian Social Democracy in the
Underground
'Lenin's doctrinal revolution of
April 1917', Journal of
Contemporary History, 4, 1969,
pp 117-42
Untimely Thoughts
'Zinoviev's revolutionary
tactics in 1917', Slavic Review,
vol XXXIV
The Roots of Russian Communism
What is to be Done
State and Revolution
'Divisions in the Bolshevik
Party in March 1917' Soviet
Studies, vol 24, pp 61-76
Leninism or Marxism?
Communist Party Membership in
the USSR, 1917-67
The Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
The Bolsheviks and Worker's
Control
The Workers' Opposition
Russian Revolution Module Booklet 2010-11
20. (Leonhard, W.
21. Solzhenitsyn, A.
22. Service, R.
Three Faces of Marxism)
Lenin in Zurich
The Bolshevik Party in
Revolution
23. Liebman, M.
Leninism under Lenin
24. Articles by Edmundsen, Hayden and Stites on the
Women's section of the Bolshevik
Party 1917-30 in Russian
History, vol 3, no. 2, pp 123193 and 237-244
25. Starikov, S. &
Philip Mironov and the Russian
Medvedev, R.
Civil War
(See also O.Piatnitsky, Memoirs of a Bolshevik)
26. Sakwa, R.
Soviet Communists in Power
27. Benvenuti, F.
The Bolshevik and the Red Army
28. Nelson, H.W.
Leon Trotsky and the Art of
Insurrection 1905-17
29. Kowalski, R.
The Bolshevik Party in Conflict:
the Left Opposition in 1918
30. Raleigh, Donald J.
‘Languages of Power: How the
Saratov Bolsheviks Imagined
Their Enemies’, Slavic Review
Vol 57 no.2 Summer 1998
31. Thatcher, Ian
Leon Trotsky and World War One
32. Mawdsley E & White J Soviet Elites from Lenin to
Gorbachev: the Central Committee
and its Members
33. Krylova, Anna
‘Beyond the SpontaneityConsciousness Paradigtm: Class
Instinct as a Promising Category
of Historical Analysis’ in
Slavic Review 62, 1, (2003)
pp.1-23
34.Zelnik, R.
‘A Paradigm Lost? A Response to
Anna Krylova’ Slavic Review 62,
1, 24-30
35.Lih, Lars T.
‘How a Founding Document Was
Found, or One Hundred Years of
Lenin’s “What is to be Done?” ‘
Kritika 4, 1 (2003) pp.5-49
37.Haimson, Leopold
‘Lenin’s Revolutionary Career
Revisited: Some Observations on
Recent Discussions’ Kritika 5, 1
(2004)pp.55-80
(Kritika – available at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/kri/
38. Lih, Lars T
Lenin Rediscovered: What is to
be Done? in context
39 White, James D
Lenin rediscovered and Reloaded:
Review Article: Europe-Asia
Studies vol 61 No 3 May 2009 pp
535-544
(vii)Menshevism
1.
Ascher, A.
(See also R.Abramovitch
2.
Haimson, L.
Pavel Axelrod and the
Development of Menshevism
The Soviet Revolution and I.
Getzler, Martov)
'Les mencheviks face à la
révolution d'Octobre: le congrès
extraordinaire du RSDRP,
29
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3.
Wade, R.
4.
Haimson, L. (ed)
5.
Ascher, A.
6.
7.
8.
Roobol, W.H.
Brovkin, V.
Galili, Z.
novembre-décembre 1917', Cahiers
du monde Russe et Sovietique,
vol 14, pp 5-32 (xerox)
'The Triumph of Siberian
Zimmerwaldism, March-May, 1917'
Canadian Slavic Studies, vol. 1,
pp 253-70 (xerox)
The Mensheviks: from the
revolution of 1917 to World War
II
The Mensheviks and the Russian
Revolution (1976)
Tsereteli: a political biography
The Mensheviks after October
Menshevik Leaders in the Russian
Revolution
(viii)Socialist Revolutionaries
1.
Cross, T.B.
2.
Katkov, G.
3.
Keep, J.L.H.
4.
Perrie, M.
5.
Radkey, O.H.
6.
Radkey, O.H.
7.
Singleton, S.
8.
Radkey, O.H.
9. Melancon, M.
'The purposes of revolution:
Chernov and 1917' Russian
Review, vol 26, pp 351-60
(xerox)
'The assassination of Count
Mirbach', St Antony's Papers no.
XII (Soviet Affairs no. 3) pp
53-93
'The Sickle under the Hammer'
(review article), Soviet
Studies, vol 16, pp 63-68
'The social composition and
structure of the S.R. party
before 1917', Soviet Studies,
vol 24, pp 223-50
The Agrarian Foes of Bolshevism,
February-October 1917
The Sickle under the Hammer:
The Russian Socialist
Revolutionaries in the Early
Months of Soviet Rule
'The Tambov Revolt (1920-21)',
Slavic Review September 1966, pp
497-512
The Unknown Civil War in
Russian: a study of the Green
Movement in the Tambov region
1920-21
'Marching Together: Left Bloc
Activities in the Russian
Revolutionary Movement, 1900 to
February 1917; Slavic Review,
vol 49, No. 2 Summer 1990 pp
239-252
(ix) Liberalism
1.
30
Milyukov, P.
Bolshevism: an international
danger
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(x)
2.
(see also Milyukov
Riha, T.
3.
Riha, T.
4.
Rosenberg, W.G.
5.
(Miliukov, P.N.
Political Memoirs)
'1917 - a year of illusions',
Soviet Studies, vol 19, pp 11521
A Russian European: P. Miliukov
in Russian Politics
Liberals in the Russian
Revolution. The Constitutional
Democratic Party, 1917-21
Russia Today and Tomorrow)
Anarchism
1.
Avrich, P.
2.
3.
4.
Avrich, P.
Avrich, P.
(Arshinov, P.
5.
Daniels, R.V.
6.
Footman, D.
7.
Katkov, G.
8.
Mawdsley, E.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
(Voline
(Voline
Goldman, E
Mett, I.
Pollack, E.
Palij, M.
Malet, M.
The Anarchists in the Russian
Revolution
Kronstadt 1921
The Russian Anarchists
History of the Makhnovist
Movement)
'The Kronstadt revolt of 1921: a
study in the dynamics of
revolution', Slavic Review, vol
X
'Nestor Makhno', St Antony's
Papers no. VI Soviet Affairs no.
2) pp 75-128
'The Kronstadt Rising', St
Antony's Papers, no. VI, Soviet
Affairs, no. 2)pp 9-74
'The Baltic Fleet and the
Kronstadt mutiny', Soviet
Studies, vol 24, pp 506-21
The Unknown Revolution)
1917 The Revolution Betrayed)
My Disillusionment in Russia
The Kronstadt Commune
The Kronstadt Rebellion
The anarchism of Nestor Makhno
Nestor Makhno and the Russian
Civil War
(xi) The Whites
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Denikin, A.
Lehovich, D.V.
The White Army
'Denikin's offensive', Russian
Review, no. 32, pp 173-186
(xerox)
Denikin, A.
The Russian Turmoil
Lukomskii, A.
Memoirs of the Russian
Revolution
Hodgson, J.F.
With Denikin's Armies
(see under 'Memoirs' 'Armed Forces', 'Consolidation
of Bolshevik power' for items by
Brinkley, Kenez, Footman,
Wrangel, Krassnoff and others)
(xii) The October Revolution and the World
(a) Communist Internationalism and Soviet Foreign Policy
31
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1.
2.
3.
Borkenau, F.
Braunthal, J.
Degras, J.
4.
Eudin, X. &
Fisher, H.H.
Eudin, X. &
North, R.
Hulse, J.W.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Lazitch, B. &
Drachkovitch, M.
Lindemann, A.S.
9. Slusser, R.M. (ed)
10. Ulam, A.B.
11. White, S.
11a Taracouzio, T.A.
11b Lazitch, B. &
Drachkovitch, M
11c (Lazitch, B. &
Drachkovitch, M
11d Debo, Richard K.
World Communism
History of the International
The Communist International, vol
1
Soviet Russia and the West,
1920-27: a documentary survey
Soviet Russia and the East,
1920-7: a documentary survey
The Forming of the Communist
International
Comintern: historical highlights
The Red Years: European
Socialism versus Bolshevism,
1919-21
A Calendar of Soviet Treaties
Expansion and Coexistence: the
History of Soviet Foreign
Policy, 1917-67
'Communism and the East: the
Baku Congress 1920' Slavic
Review XXXIII, pp 492-514
War and Peace in Soviet
Diplomacy (1940)
Lenin and the Comintern
Biographical Dictionary of the
Comintern)
Revolution and Survival: The
Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia,
1917-18
11e Uldricks, Teddy J.
Diplomacy and Ideology: The
Origins of Soviet Foreign
Relations
11f Rees, Tim and Thorpe, Andrew (eds) International
Communism and the Communist
International 1919-43
(b) Foreign Intervention
12. Bradley, J.
13. Ellis, C.H.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
32
Allied Intervention in Russia
British Intervention in
Transcaspia
Gilbert, M.
Winston S. Churchill,vol IV
1916-22
Kennan, G.
The Decision to Intervene
Kennan, G.
Russia Leaves the War
Lang, D.W.
'British Policy in Transcaucasia
1918-19', in Gorski Viyenats, pp
203-213 (catalogued under R.
Auty)
Lockhart, Sir R.B.
Memoirs of a British Agent
Wheeler-Bennett, J.W The Forgotten Peace: Brest
Litovsk
Thompson, J.M.
Russia, Bolshevism and the
Versailles Peace
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III(xiii) Cultural Life
1.
Bowlt, J.E.
2.
Curtiss, J.S.
3.
Daniels, R.V.
4.
Fitzpatrick, S.
5.
Gray, C.
6.
Leyda, J.
7.
Milner-Gulland, R.
8. Rühle, J.
9. Schnitzer, L.
10. Struve, G.
11. Taylor, R.
11a Pike, C. (ed)
12. Thomson, B.
13. Timasheff, B.S.
14. Trotsky, L.
15. Zatko, J.
15a
Shevzov, Vera
16. (Hackel, S.
17. Williams, R.C.
18. Read, C.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
Babel, I.
Blok, A.
Bulgakov, M.
Pasternak, B.
Sholokhov, M.
Solzhenitsyn, A.
Zamyatin, E.
Zamyatin, E.
Belyi, A.
'Russian art in the 1920s',
Soviet Studies, vol 22, pp 57594
Church and State in Russia,191741
'Intellectuals and the Russian
Revolution', Slavic Review, vol
XX, pp 270-8
The Commissariat of
Enlightenment 1917-21
The Great Experiment: Russian
Art, 1863-1922
Kino: history of Russian and
Soviet film
'Art in revolution - Soviet art
and design since 1917' Soviet
Studies, vol 23, pp 690-2
Literature and Revolution
Cinema in Revolution
Soviet Russian Literature 191750
'A medium for the masses:
agitation in the Soviet Civil
War', Soviet Studies, vol 22, pp
562-74
The Formalists, the Futurists
and the Marxist Critique
The Premature Revolution:
Russian Literature and Society,
1917-46
Religion in Soviet Russia 191742
Literature and Revolution
Descent into Darkness:
Destruction of Roman Catholic
Church in Russia, 1917-23
Russian Orthodoxy on the Eve of
Revolution (Oxford 2004)
The Poet and Revolution:
Aleksandr Blok's 'The Twelve'
London 1975)
Artisis in Revolution: portraits
of the Russian Avant-Garde 19051925
Culture and Power in
Revolutionary Russia: the
Intelligentsia and the
Transition from Tsarism to
Communism
Collected Stories
Selected Poems
The White Guard
Doctor Zhivago
And Quiet Flows the Don
August 1914
The Dragon and Other Stories
We
Petersburg
33
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28. Constantine, M.
29. Blok, A.
30. Fitzpatrick, S.
31. Eklof, B.
32. Yedlin Tovah
33. Morgan, W.John
34. Bonnell, V.
and
Revolutionary Soviet Film
Posters
The Twelve (with Annenkov
illustrations)
The Cultural Front
School and Society in Tsarist
and Soviet Russia
Maxim Gorky: A Political
Biography
Communists in Education and
Culture 1848-1948
Iconography of Power: Soviet
Political Posters under Lenin
Stalin
Thank You Comrade Stalin! Soviet
Popular Culture from Revolution
to Cold War
36.Kiaer,C and Naiman E Everday Life in Early Soviet
Russia
37.Naiman,E
Sex in Public:The Incarnation of
Early Soviet Ideology (1999)
38.Gorsuch, Anne
Youth in Revolutionary Russia:
Enthusiasts, Bohemians and
Delinquents
39.Kelly, Catriona and Shepherd, David Constructing
Russian Culture in an Age of
Revolution 1881-1940 (1998)
40.Stites, Richard
Revolutionary Dreams
41.Rosenberg, William
Bolshevik Visions
42. Gleason, Kenez & Stites
Bolshevik
Culture:Experiment and Order in
the Russian Revolution.
(xiv)Analyses and Appraisals
1. Carr, E.H.
1917: Before and After
2. Deutscher, I.
The Unfinished Revolution
3. Laqueur, W.
The Fate of the Revolution
4. Laue, T.H. von
Why Lenin? Why Stalin?
5. Luxemburg, R.
The Russian Revolution
6. Russell, B.
The Practice and Theory of
Bolshevism
7. Wolfe, B.
An Ideology in Power:
reflections on the Russian
Revolution
8. Acton, E.
Russia
9.Holquist, Peter
‘What is Revolutionary about the
Russian Revolution? State
Practices and New Style Politics
1914-21’ in Hoffman, D. and
Kotsonis, Y. Russian Modernity:
Politics, Knowledge, Practices
35. Brooks, Jeffrey
III
III
34
(xv) Historiography
1. Andreyev, N.
'S.P. Mel'gunov 1879-1956',
Slavonic and East European
Review, vol XXXV, pp 574-8
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2.
Baron, S.H.
3.
Elkin, B.
4.
Heer, N.W.
5.
Keep, J. (ed)
6.
McNeal, R.H.
7.
Szporluk, R.
8.
Warth, R.D.
9.
Wolfe, B.
10. Elwood, R.C.
11. Mazour, A.
12. Getzler, I.
'Plekhanov, Trotsky and the
development of Soviet
historiography', Soviet Studies,
vol 26, pp 380-95
'The Kerensky Government and its
fate', Slavic Review, XXIII, pp
717-36 (see also Vishniak in
Slavic Review, vol XXV, pp 143-9
and Elkin in same volume, pp
323-32
Politics and History in the
Soviet Union
Contemporary History in the
Soviet Mirror
'Soviet historiography on the
October revolution: a review of
forty years', Slavic Review, vol
17, pp 269-81
'Pokrovskii's view of the
Russian Revolution', Slavic
Review, vol XXVI, p 70
'On the historiography of the
Russian Revolution', Slavic
Review, XXVI, p 247
'Leon Trotsky as historian',
Slavic Review, vol XX, p 495
'How complete is Lenin's Polnoe
Sobranie Sochinenii (Complete
works)', Slavic Review, vol 38,
no. 1, pp 97-105
Modern Russian Historiography
'Richard Pipes Revisionist
History of the Russian
Revolution' Slavonic and East
European Review, Jan. 1992 vol.
70, no. 1, pp. 111-126
13. S. Smith
‘Writing the History of the Russian Revolution after the
Fall of Communism’ in Miller, M The Russian Revolution: The
Essential Readings pp.259-81
14. C.Read ‘Writing the History of the Russian Revolution?’ Studies in
History, Institute of Historical Research website, 1997
(http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/articles/russia.html)
15. C.Read ‘The Russian Revolution After the Fall of Communism’, review
article, The Historical Journal vol. 40 no.4, pp.1127-1134,
1998.
16. C.Read ‘In Search of Liberal Tsarism: The Historiography of
Autocratic Decline’ The Historical Journal 45, 1, (2002)
(Cambridge)
17. Holquist, P ‘What is Revolutionary about the Russian Revolution?
State Practices and New Style Politics 1914-21’ in Hoffman,
D. and Kotsonis, Y. Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge,
Practices
18. /Acton, Edward
Rethinking the Russian Revolution.
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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - ESSAY TITLES
Three short essays are required from three different sections.
Deadlines are Week 7, Week 12 and Week 18.
Alternative titles available on request.
SECTION A
1.
Why was the government so opposed to Nicholas's decision to
make himself Commander-in-Chief?
2.
‘Russia’s poor performance in the war arose from
administrative incompetence rather than economic weakness’
Discuss with reference to the period 1914-16.
3.
How spontaneous was the February revolution?
4.
‘The most significant feature of the February Revolution was
the sudden disappearance of autocratic power. Discuss.
5.
Discuss Lenin's role in the July days.
6.
Assess the role of peasants in the revolution from February to
October 1917?
SECTION B
7.
Assess Lenin’s view in October 1917 that the transition to
socialism would be ‘gradual, peaceful and smooth’.
8.
Assess the role of the Soviets in the Russian Revolution
between February and October 1917.
9.
"More peasant than proletarian." Discuss this view of the
urban working-class in Russia in the period from 1905-1917.
10.
Did Kornilov pose a serious threat to the revolution in July-August 1917?
11
‘The establishment of Soviet power in October was more coup d’état than revolution.’
Do you agree?
12.
Assess Alexander Kerensky's contribution to the revolution in
1917
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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - ESSAY TITLES
SECTION C
1.
To what extent did Lenin have a strategy for the transition to
socialism when he took power in October 1917?
2.
Why did Lenin turn to ‘iron proletarian discipline’ in early
1918?
3.
The impact of the war against the Whites on the development
of the Soviet system has been greatly overestimated.’ Discuss.
4.
Why did the principles on which the Red Army was organised
cause controversy within the Bolshevik party?
5.
'The chief advantage of the Reds in the Civil War was that
they had internal lines of communication'. Do you agree?
6.
Why did Lenin become increasingly concerned by the effects of
bureaucratisation and careerism in 1919 and 1920?
SECTION D
7.
Account for the emergence of the Workers’ Opposition?
8.
What was the significance of the Tambov rising of 1920-1?
Why did the government suppress the Kronstadt rebellion?
9.
Assess the significance of the Tenth Party Congress.
10.
How justified were opposition claims that the revolution had
become bureaucratized by 1921?
11.
Did writers and artists make a significant contribution to the
Russian Revolution?
OR
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