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Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:06 pm

Coming soon and looking to be very interesting . . .

http://www.casematepublishing.co.uk/ind ... lenin.html

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Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:18 pm

ERISS wrote:I often refer to this Trotsky writings, mainly this excerpt [that I edited a little to be more readable], when I say that he saw the stalinism in leninism, 31 years after Bakunin already did saw it in marxism:

Leon Trotsky
Our Political Tasks
(1904) . . .

Bottom of: http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1904/tasks/ch03.htm


I don't wish to enter into a discussion about this in the Bibliographic thread but just to say that the erroneous idea that "What is to be Done?" proves that Leninism inevitably led to Stalinism is dealt with in detail (demolished actually) in Marcel Liebman's "Leninism under Lenin" in the section dealing with Bolshevism in the 1905 revolution (pp 29-53).

http://www.merlinpress.co.uk/acatalog/L ... LENIN.html

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Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:33 pm

Nikolai Sukhanov's memoirs "The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record". He was a Social Revolutionary who joined the Mensheviks in 1917 and he provided a very honest account of the revolutionary period.

WH Chamberlin's two volumes of the "Russian Revolution" (1935) are still worth reading. He was in Russia at the time of the revolution as a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor. Excellent stuff.

Two books by Arthur Ransome "Six Weeks in Russia, 1919" and "The Crisis in Russia 1920" are also interesting.

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Re: Russian Civil War bibliography

Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:44 pm

stockwellpete wrote:Nikolai Sukhanov's memoirs "The Russian Revolution 1917: A Personal Record". He was a Social Revolutionary who joined the Mensheviks in 1917 and he provided a very honest account of the revolutionary period.

WH Chamberlin's two volumes of the "Russian Revolution" (1935) are still worth reading. He was in Russia at the time of the revolution as a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor. Excellent stuff.

Two books by Arthur Ransome "Six Weeks in Russia, 1919" and "The Crisis in Russia 1920" are also interesting.


Thanks for the recommendations stockwell, really enjoying them. Keep them coming.

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Re: Russian Civil War bibliography

Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:47 am

This looks good. An account of the life of a Bolshevik oppositionist who eventually perished in Stalin's purges.

http://socialistreview.org.uk/417/alexa ... -bolshevik

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Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:52 am

And I found this at the back of my cupboard the other day - "Lenin: The Novel" by Alan Brian, which was written in 1987. First class novel if I recall correctly and candidate to be read again this centenary year! :D

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Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:16 am

Three books that celebrate the centenary of the Russian Revolution on October 25 . . ,

China Mieville: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, 2017
Tariq Ali: The Dilemmas of Lenin, 2017
Neil Faulkner: A People's History of the Russian Revolution, 2017

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Re: Russian Civil War bibliography

Tue Oct 17, 2017 3:08 pm

And more related books from this year:

Engelstein, Russia in Flames.

Brenton (editor), Was revolution inevitable?

McMeekin, The Russian Revolution.

Service. The last of the Tsars.

Buttar. Splintered empires. The 4th book of an Osprey series on the Eastern front.

Figes. A People's Tragedy centenary edition. Reedition of the same 90s book, just with a new introduction.

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Sat May 05, 2018 9:42 am

Also revised and enlarged for the centenary.

This is considered, I believe, the best reference on this particular topic:

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917. The End of the Tsarist Regime and the Birth of Dual Power


https://brill.com/abstract/title/21379


Includes one of the best maps of Petrograd in 1917

https://books.google.es/books?id=xDE9Dw ... &q&f=false

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Re: Russian Civil War bibliography

Sun May 06, 2018 12:31 pm

Or this, if you want to keep it:
https://books.google.es/books/content?i ... SAA&w=1280
I don't add the caption, for this link should already not be very legal (the Nikel' is good).

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Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:22 pm

Also republished with a new introduction.

The Bolsheviks Come to Power. The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd.
by Alexander Rabinowitch.


https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/99 ... e-to-power

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Wed Jul 03, 2019 5:06 pm

Book in french about Marusia Nikiforova here:
http://mutineseditions.free.fr/index.html
http://mutineseditions.free.fr/images/couvnikiforova.jpg
(too big picture of the book cover, so I don't use the Img flag)

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Wed Jan 12, 2022 8:23 pm

J Smele recent article, Could the AntiBolsheviks have won the Russian Revolutions and Civil Wars?

https://moodle2.uni-potsdam.de/pluginfi ... %20War.pdf


E Mawdesley comments on The Russian Civil War books, Jonathan Smele, Admiral Kolchak and the Civil War.

https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/257273/1/257273.pdf

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Wed Jan 12, 2022 9:36 pm

Nikel wrote:E Mawdesley comments on The Russian Civil War books, Jonathan Smele, Admiral Kolchak and the Civil War.

https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/257273/1/257273.pdf


Interesting article. Mawdsley wrote a well-known book on the Russian Civil War, so it is interesting to read one expert review the work of another. With lots of footnotes!

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Re: Russian Civil War bibliography

Thu Jan 13, 2022 2:23 pm

Indeed :D

When RuS and RuS Gold were released there was only one book in english, Mawdsley's book.

Later appeared Smele's.

And there will be a third, or at least appears as planned in Slavica site:

https://slavica.indiana.edu/series/Russ ... War_Series


G Swain has also answered to Smele article and the pdf is available in the University of Glasgow:

http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/199038/7/199038.pdf

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Sun Jan 23, 2022 4:19 pm

Smele is good about his speciality, Koltchak, but is old about Denikin's army.

The goal of Denikin was Moscow, and if its left and right sides had stalled, they had kept their role of protecting the advancing center. Smele says the center had stopped for theirs sides, then retreat for that, despite Denikin was confident on having Christmas 1919 at Moscow, and even the commies told he didn't succeed for Denikin had a bad REAR (sure not telling how).
Politically, none says Denikin had retreated BECAUSE makhnovists went taking back his rear, and Smele repeat the joint Red and White propagandas against those independant makhnovists paesants.
If, as said, Denikin had retreated in good order for Red army advance, then, no, makhnovists wouldn't take their country back, for white army retreat then red army advance: makhnovists took back their lands BEFORE Denikin retreated, not after. The retreat of Denikin was because he had no longer supply, then the Red army followed them harshly.

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