The Russian Revolution Part 1 (E47)

What paved the course for the 1917 Bolshevik revolution? In this first of two parts, we explore the turmoil of World War I, the Czar’s many ignoble failures, the rise of the Narodniks, and the arrival of Lenin and Trotsky. Your hosts are Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus. Go to patreon.com/superstructure to get a feed with double the episodes for just $5 a month. Episode researched and written by Chris Beausang. Edited by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Green Apple by Amanaz. Follow Super Structure on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/superstructurepodcast/ Superstructurepodcast.com Bibliography Carr, Edward Hallett. The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 - 1923. W.W. Norton & Company, 1985. Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World. Verso, 2018. Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky, The One-Volume Edition. Verso, 2015. ——, Stalin: A Political Biography. Vintage Books, 1960. FitzPatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2008. International Socialist Conference at Zimmerwald, ‘Manifesto’. Marxists.org, 1915. https://www.marxists.org/history/international/social-democracy/zimmerwald/manifesto-1915.htm Kołakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown. W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878 - 1928. Penguin, 2015. Lenin, Vladimir. ‘The Crisis Has Matured’. Marxists.org, 2000. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/oct/20.htm ——. The Tasks of the Russian Social Democrats. Marxists.org, 2008. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1897/dec/31b.htm#fwV02E107 ——. What Is to Be Done? Marxists.org, 2008. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/ Liedman, Sven-Eric. A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx. Verso, 2018. Mandel, Ernest. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx 1843 to Capital. Verso, 2015. Marx, Karl. Capital: Volume I. Penguin, 1990.