NYU Summer 2017 readings: Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution
Summer 2017 readings: Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution
- required/ + recommended reading
- Lenin readings available in Robert C. Tucker, ed., The Lenin Anthology (Norton, 1977), except (*) on marxists.org
Recommended background readings
+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1977)
+ John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World (1919)
Week 1 | June 19
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution(1905)
- Lenin, On the Two Lines in the Revolution(1915) *
Week 2 | June 26
- Lenin, Lecture on the 1905 Revolution(1917)
- Lenin, Letters from Afar (1917) *
- Lenin, April Theses (1917)
Week 4 | July 10
- Lenin, The Dual Power(1917)
- Lenin, The Enemies of the People (1917)
- Lenin, The Beginning of Bonapartism (1917)
Week 5 | July 17
- Lenin, Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?(1917)
- Lenin, Marxism and Insurrection (1917)
- Lenin, Advice of an Onlooker (1917)
Week 6 | July 24
- Lenin, To the Citizens of Russia!(1917)
- Lenin, Theses on the Constituent Assembly (1917)
- Lenin, The Chief Task of Our Day (1918)
- Lenin, The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government (1918)
Week 7 | July 31
- Lenin, The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky(1918)