[1] September 17 — REVOLUTION AS APOTHEOSIS?
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Everyone reads:
P. Sorokin, "War and the militarization of society," Artel'noe delo no. 1-4 (1922): 3-10. (Russian original)
Nikolai Berdiaev, "Spirits of the Russian Revolution" (1918). [Russian text]
Read any two of these short texts:
Vladimir Steklov, "Introduction," Free Association for the Development and Dissemination of the Positive Sciences (1917), 11-14. (Russian source)Letter from V. Lenin to M. Gorky, 15 September 1919. (Russian)
Daniil Pasmanik, ""Приятие революции"," Революционные годы в Крыму (1926), 30-35.
Oleksandr Shulgin, "Трагедіє російського інтелігента," Нова Рада no. 70 (1918), p. 2. [at libraria.ua]
Further resources:
Michael David-Fox, "The Soviet order between exceptionalism and shared modernity," in Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union (2015). [access via JSTOR]
Stephen Kotkin, "1991 and the Russian Revolution: Sources, conceptual categories, analytical frameworks," J. Mod. Hist. 70 (1998): 384-425.
Peter Holquist, "'Information is the alpha and omega of our work': Bolshevik surveillance in its pan-European context," J. Mod. Hist. 69 (1997): 415-450.
Kendall E. Bailes, "Natural scientists and the Soviet system," in Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History, eds. D. P. Koenker, W. G. Rosenberg, R. G. Suny (1989), 267-295.
Kendall E. Bailes, Science the Russian Culture in an Age of Revolutions: V. I. Vernadsky and his Scientific School (1990).
Jane Burbank, Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922 (1986).
Stuart Finkel, On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere (2008). -