The Russian Revolution

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1 Brock University History 4P38 The Russian Revolution David Schimmelpenninck Office: GL 229 Tel: , ext Overview This seminar studies the collapse of Russia s Romanov dynasty and its replacement by Bolshevism in It is divided into two parts. The first is topical. During these discussions we examine Russia s ancien régime by focusing on major elements of pre-revolutionary society, including the autocracy and nobility, peasants, workers, civil society, the intelligentsia, and Vladimir Lenin. Towards the end of October, we shift over to a chronological approach by considering he major events in Russia between 1905 and Throughout, we pay close attention to differences of opinion between historians.

2 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution 2 Requirements & Grading Prospectus 5% of grade A 1-page statement of intent for the paper to be written during the term. Must consist of 1-2 paragraphs describing your proposal as well as proper citations of at least 5 sources you plan to use. Paper 35% of grade A 15-page research paper on a topic relevant to the course. Oral Book Review 10% of Grade A 20-minute oral review of a book relevant to the course. See list at back. Seminar Preparation 30% of grade You will be expected to lead 1 seminar during the semester. This will entail reading the assigned texts a week in advance, meeting with me and your partner(s) to plan your session, and guiding the discussion. Seminar Participation 20% of grade Attendance at seminars is mandatory. You will be expected to do the required readings before your seminar meeting and to participate in the discussions. Housekeeping I will consider extensions for medical or personal emergencies, but they must be substantiated by the appropriate documentation and will be granted entirely at the instructor s discretion. Emergencies do not include ill-tempered computers, nor the exigencies of other courses, jobs or your love life. Late work handed in without my permission will be penalised by 20% of that assignment s grade for every 24 hours after the time it is due. Plagiarism will not be tolerated and is subject to severe penalties. Brock University s Academic Misconduct Regulations define plagiarism as presenting work done (in whole or in part) by someone else as if it were one s own. Written work must be screened by Turnitin.com). Students must attend every seminar, having read and thought about all assigned texts. You are also required to participate actively in the weekly discussions. Two or more unexcused absences from seminars will jeopardise your grade. To pass the course, you must get a passing average grade and complete all assigned work. All electronic devices, including cell phones, smartphones, laptops, ipods, ipads, etc., must always be turned off and put away during seminars.

3 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution 3 Week 1 - Introduction Film: The End of St Petersburg. Vsevolod Pudovkin, Week 2 - Interpretations S. A. Smith, The Revolutions of 1917, in Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 3 (E)* Alexandr Blok, The Twelve ( Robert Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra. New York: Atheneum, 1967, pp (S)** Edward Acton, Rethinking the Russian Revolution. London: Edward Arnold, 1990, pp (S) Ronald Suny, Revision and Retreat in 1917 in the Historiography of 1917, The Russian Review 53 (April 1994), pp (E) Peter Holquist, Violent Russia, Deadly Marxism? Russia in the Epoch of Violence, , Kritika 4 (Summer 2003), pp (E) Week 3 - Official Russia Hans Rogger, Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution, pp Donald Mackenzie Wallace, Russia, chapt. XXIV, The Imperial Administration (E) B.V. Ananich & R.Sh. Ganelin, Nicholas II, in Donald J. Raleigh, The Emperors and Empresses of Russia. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1996, pp (S) Seymour Becker, Nobility and Privilege in Late Imperial Russia. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 1985, pp (S) Jacob W. Kipp and W. Bruce Lincoln, Autocracy and Reform: Bureaucratic Absolutism and Political Modernisation in Nineteenth Century Russia, Russian History/Histoire Russe 6:1 (1979), 1-21 (S) Richard S. Wortman, Scenarios of Power, vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995, pp (S) Robert F. Byrnes, Russian Conservative Thought before the Revolution, in Theophanis Stavrou, Russia under the Last Tsar. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971, pp (S) * (E) Available on-line via the Gibson Library ** (S) Available on Sakai

4 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution 4 Week 4 - Peasant Russia Rogger, Russia, pp Wallace, Russia XXIX, The Emancipation of the Serfs & XXXI, The Emancipated Peasantry (E) Anton Chekhov, Peasants ( Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, pp (S) Daniel Field, Rebels in the Name of the Tsar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp (S) Michael Confino, Agrarian Crisis, Urbanization, and the Russian Peasants at the End of the Old Regime, 1880s-1920s, in Confino, Russia before the Radiant Future. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011, (S) Christine Worobec, Victims or Actors? Russian Peasant Women and Patriarchy, in Esther Kingston-Mann and Timothy Mixter, Peasant Economy Culture, and Politics of European Russia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991, (S) F Prospectus due at start of seminar Week 5 - The Lower Depths Rogger, Russia, pp Wallace, Russia XXXVI, Industrial Progress and the Proletariat (E) Reginald Zelnik, ed, A Radical Worker in Tsarist Russia: The Autobiography of Semën Ivanovich Kanatchnikov. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986, pp. 1-36, 55-74, , (S) Victoria Bonnell, Roots of Rebellion: Workers Politics and Organizations in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983, pp (S) Jacob Walkin, The Attitude of the Tsarist Government toward the Labor Problem, American Slavic and East European Review 13:2 (Apr. 1954), pp (E) Leopold Haimson, The Problem of Social Stability in Urban Russia, , Slavic Review 23 (1964), pp , and 24 (1965), pp (S)

5 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution 5 Week 6 - Civil Society & Intelligentsia Mark D. Steinberg, Russia s Fin de Siècle in Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 3 (E) Sidney Monas, The Twilit Middle Class of Nineteenth-Century Russia, in Edith Clowes, Samuel Kassow and James West, eds., Between Tsar and People. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991, pp (S) Richard Stites, Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society since Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp (S) Nikolai Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done? Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989, pp , , , , (S) Martin Malia, What Is the Intelligentsia? Daedalus 89 (1960), pp (E) Leonard Schapiro, The Vekhi Group and the Mystique of Revolution, Slavonic and East European Review 34 (1955), pp (E) Anna Geifman, Thou Shalt Kill: Revolutionary Terrorism in Russia, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, pp (S) Week 7 - Lenin Rogger, Russia, pp Leszek Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978, pp , (S) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto ( Vladimir Lenin, What Is to be Done? ( Rosa Luxemburg, Leninism or Marxism? (

6 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution 6 Week 8 - Dress Rehearsal Rogger, Russia, pp Andrei Bely, Petersburg Week 9 Constitutional Autocracy Rogger, Russia, pp Marc Szeftel, The Russian Constitution of April 23, 1906: Political Institutions of the Duma Monarchy. Brussels: Editions de la Librairie encyclopédique, 1976, pp (S) Theodore von Laue, The Chances for Liberal Constitutionalism, Slavic Review 24:1 (1965), (E) George Yaney, The Concept of the Stolypin Land Reform, Slavic Review 23:3 (1964), (E) William Rosenberg, Kadets and the Politics of Ambivalence, Charles Timberlake, ed, Essays on Russian Liberalism. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1972, (S) Michael Melancon, The Ninth Circle: The Lena Goldfields Massacre of 4 April 1912, Slavic Review 53:2 (1994), (E)

7 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution 7 Week 10 - War Mark von Hagen, The First World War in Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 3 (E) D.C.B. Lieven, Russia and the Origins of the First World War. New York: St. Martin s, 1983, pp , (S) Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August. New York: Macmillan, 1964, pp (S) Peter Durnovo, Memorandum, ( Nicholas Golovine, The Russian Army in the First World War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931, pp (S) Mark George, Liberal Opposition in Wartime Russia: A Case Study of the Town and Zemstvo Unions, Slavonic and East European Review 65 (1987), pp (E) Hubertus Jahn, For Tsar and Fatherland? Russian Popular Culture and the First World War, in Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg, Cultures in Flux. Princeton: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp (S) Week 11 - February 1917 Rogger, Russia, pp Eric Lohr, War and Revolution, Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 2 (E) N. N. Sukhanov, The Russian Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984, pp (S) Bernard Pares, Rasputin and the Empress, Foreign Affairs 6:1 (Oct. 1927), pp (E) Lev Trotskii, Five Days, in Trotskii, The Russian Revolution ( Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, The February Revolution. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1981, pp (S) Robert Feldman, The Russian General Staff and the June 1917 Offensive, Soviet Studies 19:4 (Apr 1968), pp (E) Boris Kolonitskii, Antibourgeois Propaganda and Anti- Burzhui Consciousness in 1917, Russian Review 53:2 (Apr. 1994), pp (E) Boris Elkin, The Kerensky Government and its Fate, Slavic Review 23:4 (Dec. 1964), (E)

8 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution 8 Week 12 - October 1917 Rogger, Russia, pp John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World. F Paper due at start of seminar Required Texts Books to buy at the Brock University Bookstore Hans Rogger, Russia in the Age of Modernisation and Revolution London: Longman, John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Andrei Bely, Petersburg. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.

9 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution 9 Books to Review Nicholas Berdyaev, The Origins of Russian Communism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution. New York: Vintage, George Buchanan, My Mission to Russia. New York: Arno Press, Viktor Chernov, The Great Russian Revolution. New York: Russell & Russell, Frederick Corney, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Russian Revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Wayne Dowler, Russia in DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, Beatrice Farnsworth, Alexandra Kollontai: Socialism, Feminism and the Bolshevik Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, William C. Fuller, The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason in Imperial Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, Iurii Got e, Time of Troubles: The Diary of Iurii Vladimirovich Got e. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Peter Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Alexander Kerensky, The Catastrophe: Kerensky's own Story of the Russian Revolution. New York: D. Appleton, Daniel H. Kaiser, The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917: The View from Below. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, George Katkov, Russia 1917, the Kornilov Affair. London: Longman, Diane Koenker, Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Robert K. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra. New York: Atheneum, Roy Medvedev, The October Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, Bernard Pares, The Fall of the Russian Monarchy. London: Cassell, Boris Pasternak, Dr Zhivago. London: Collins, Richard Pipes, A Concise History of the Russian Revolution. New York: Vintage, Alexander Rabinowitch, The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. New York: W. W. Norton, Donald Raleigh, Revolution on the Volga: 1917 in Saratov. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, M. V. Rodzianko, The Reign of Rasputin. Gulf Breeze: Academic International Press, William Rosenberg, Liberals in the Russian Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, P.N. Sobolev, et al, eds., History of the October Revolution. Moscow: Progress Publishers, Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Visions and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Norman Stone, The Eastern Front. London: Penguin, Leon Trotsky, The Russian Revolution. Garden City: Doubleday, Allan Wildman, The End of the Imperial Russian Army. Vol. I. The Old Army and the Soldiers Revolt. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Vladimir Zevin, Lenin. Moscow: Novosti, Nb I will consider other relevant books. Please see me if you have a suggestion.

10 Hist 4P38 The Russian Revolution TIMELINE Old Style New Style 31 Jan 12 Feb New strike wave begins in Petrograd 26 Feb 11 Mar First mutinies in Petrograd garrison 27 Feb 12 Mar Temporary Duma Ctee. & Petrograd Soviet formed 1 Mar 14 Mar Petrograd Soviet issues Order No. 1 2 Mar 15 Mar Nicholas II abdicates, Provisional Government formed 3 Apr 16 Apr Lenin arrives at Finland Station in Petrograd 18 Apr 1 May Miliukov tells Allies that Russia s war aims are unchanged Apr 3-4 May April Days Demonstrations in Petrograd and Moscow against Miliukov s annexationist war aims 5 May 18 May First Coalition Government formed with Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries as Miliukov resigns 30 May-3 Jun June Petrograd factory committees support Bolshevik policies 3-14 June 16 Jun-7 Jul First All-Russian Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets Jun 1-11 Jul Military offensive on Austrian front 3-5 Jul Jul July Days Demonstrations in Petrograd for all power to Soviets 12 Jul 25 Jul Provisional Gov t. re-establishes death penalty in army 18 Jul 31 Jul General Kornilov appointed commander-in-chief 24 Jul 6 Aug Second Coalition Gov t. appointed with Kerensky as PM Aug 8-12 Sep Kornilov revolt 31 Aug 13 Sep Bolsheviks gain majority in Petrograd Soviet 5 Sep 18 Sep Bolsheviks gain majority in Moscow Soviet 23 Sep 6 Oct Trotskii elected chairman of Petrograd Soviet 25 Sep 8 Oct Third Coalition Gov t. formed 10 Oct 23 Oct Bolshevik Central Ctee. approves Lenin s resolution for armed insurrection Oct 6-7 Nov October Revolution Military Revolutionary Ctee. overthrows Provisional Gov t 26 Oct 8 Nov Second Congress of Soviets approves all-bolshevik Council of Peoples Commissars and soviet power Source: Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1990.