Platypus Santa Cruz Marxist Reading Group Summer 2017
Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution
Thursdays, 6:00pm, Kresge Library/Study Center Rm. 348
University of California
1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
• 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)
+ Lenin, "On the Two Lines in the Revolution" (1915)
Week 1 | June 29, 2017
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution (1905)
+ Lenin, "On the Two Lines in the Revolution" (1915)
Week 2 | July 6, 2017
• Lenin, Lecture on the 1905 Revolution (1917)
• Lenin, April Theses (1917)
Week 3 | July 13, 2017
• Lenin, The Dual Power (1917)
• Lenin, The Enemies of the People (1917)
• Lenin, The Beginning of Bonapartism (1917)
Week 4 | July 20, 2017
• Lenin, Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (1917)
• Lenin, Marxism and Insurrection (1917)
• Lenin, Advice of an Onlooker (1917)
Week 5 | July 27, 2017
• 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 6 | August 3, 2017
• Lenin, The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky (1918)
