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 1Â | 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 2Â | July 6, 2017
• Lenin, Lecture on the 1905 Revolution (1917)
• Lenin, April Theses (1917)
Week 3Â | 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)
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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)
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Podiumsdiskussion mit Stefan Engel (MLPD), Paul Michel (isl) und Felix (IL) zur Frage nach der Notwendigkeit linker Einheit.
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Tobias Schweiger: Rezension zu „Kritik des politischen Engagements“ von Gerhard Scheit
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Since Jeremy Corbyn took leadership of the Labour Party in 2015, he and his party have been the North Star for many on the Left. This reorientation has raised old questions about the Left's relationship to the Labour Party. At the Oxford Radical Forum in March the description for a panel on “Corbyn, Labour and the Radical Left” put forward a number of symptomatic propositions. It registered the fact that “several socialist tendencies which had previously campaigned against the party now committed to supporting it under Corbyn’s leadership” and that Corbyn’s election to leader “was largely viewed as a moment of triumph for the far left.” But what is the Left? And what would mean for it to triumph?
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