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Matthew presents on the New Economic Policy and its impact on early Soviet society.  

Bibliography:

Ball, Alan M. Russia’s Last Capitalists: Nepmen 1921-1929. University of California Press, 1990

Bukharin, Nikolai. The Economic Structure of Soviet Russia. 1922. The Marxist Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bukharin/works/1922/03/econstruct.html. Accessed 16 April 2025. 

Brovki, Vladimir. Russia After Lenin 1921-1929. Rutledge, 2005 

Bukharin, Nikolai. Preobrazhensky, Evgenii A. The ABC of Communism. Merlin Press, 2007.

Carr. E.H. A History of Soviet Russia. Macmillan Press Ltd, 1950–1978. Collection of 14 volumes: The Bolshevik Revolution (3 volumes), The Interregnum (1 volume), Socialism in One Country (4 volumes), and The Foundations of a Planned Economy (6 volumes).

Deutscher, Isaac. The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky. Verso, 2015

Lenin, Vladimir Ilych, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Crisis in Our Party. 1904. The Marxist Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/. Accessed 16 April 2025.

Lewin, Moshe. Lenin’s Last Struggle. Pantheon Books, 1968.

Trotsky, Leon. Problems of Everyday Life: Creating the Foundations for a New Society in Revolutionary Russia. Pathfinder Press, 1973.

Trotsky, Leon.  The New Course / The Struggle for the New Course by Max Shachtman. Ann Arbor, 1965.

Russia in the Era of NEP Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture. Edited by Shelia Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch and Richard Stites. Indiana University Press, 1991.

Serge, Victor. From Lenin to Stalin. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Pathfinder Press, 1973

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Matthew provides some insight into the motivations behind a new Soviet history podcast. 

Bibliography:

Buck-Morss, Susan. Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West. The MIT Press, 2002.

Boulgakov, Mikhail. The Master and Margarita. Translated by Hugh Aplin, Alma Classics, 2018.

Carr. E.H. A History of Soviet Russia. Macmillan Press Ltd, 1950–1978. Collection of 14 volumes: The Bolshevik Revolution (3 volumes), The Interregnum (1 volume), Socialism in One Country (4 volumes), and The Foundations of a Planned Economy (6 volumes).

Kreischner, Bert. “Why I am Famous.” Youtube. Uploaded by Bert Kreischner. Accessed 2 April 2025. https://youtu.be/paG1-lPtIXA?si=v2p1mTgQOmfRcBih

Louis, C.K. “The Russian Kid was Sniffing Glue.” Youtube. Uploaded by My Ta. Accessed 2 April 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGZItIBIQQ.

The Death of Stalin. Directed by Armando Iannucci. Gaumont, 2017.

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In the first supplemental episode, Jason presents on the history of the revolutionary tradition in the Russian Empire, covering the Decemberist Coup, the Narodnik movement, the Revolution of 1905, and more. 

Bibliography:

Barer, Schlomo. The Doctors of Revolution: 19th-Century Thinkers Who Changed the World.  Thames and Hudson, 2000.

Battleship Potemkin. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Yavov Bliokh, 1925

Hough, Richard. The Potemkin Mutiny. Heron Books, 1969.

Florinsky, Michael. “Russian Social and Political Thought, 1825-1855.” The Russian Review, vol. 6, no. 2, 1947, pp. 77–85.

Lewak, Adam. “The Polish Rising of 1830.” The Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 9, no. 26, 1930, pp. 350–60.

Mazour, Anatole. The First Russian Revolution: 1825 the Decembrist Movement, its Origins, Development, and Significance. Stanford University Press, 1937. 

McClellan, Woodford. Revolutionary Exiles: The Russians in the First International and the Paris Commune. Frank Cass and Company Ltd, 1979.

Offord, Derek. The Russian Revolutionary Movement in the 1880’s. Cambridge University Press 2010. 

Pushkin, Alexander. Ode to Liberty, 1817. Wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Liberty_(poem) accessed 19 April 2025.

Rogger, Hans. “October 1917 and the Tradition of Revolution.” The Russian Review, vol. 27, no. 4, 1968, pp. 395–413.

Siljak, Ana. Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009.

Stoppard, Tom. The Coast of Utopia. Grove Press, 2007.  Social Protest Violence and Terror in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe. Edited by Wolfgang J Mommsen and Gerhardt Hirschfield . Macmillan Press LTD, 1982.

Trotsky, Leon. Nichol, Luma (introduction). The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects. Red Letter Press, 2010.

Zamoyski, Adam. Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries 1776-1881. Phoenix Press, 2001.

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In the second supplementary episode, Matthew gives a breakneck course on the Russian Revolution and Civil War. 

Bibliography:

Babel, Isaac. Red Cavalry. W.W. Norton and Company, 2003.

Beevor, Anthony. The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. 

Bryant, Louise. Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship. The Journeyman Press, 1982.

Chamberlin, William. The Russian Revolution 1917-1921: From the Overthrow of the Czar to the Assumption of Power by the Bolsheviks, Vol. I & II. Grosset & Dunlap, 1965.

Duncan, Mike. Revolutions. Season 10, Hosted by Mike Duncan. Spotify, 20 May 2019 - 25 December 2022.

Figes, Orlando. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution from 1891-1924. Penguin Books, 1998. 

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. The Russian Revolution. Oxford University Press, 2017. 

Lincoln, W. Bruce. Red Victory. Simon and Schuster, 1989

Miéville, China. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. Verso, 2017.

Pasternack, Boris. Doctor Zhivago. Translated by Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage Books, 2011.

Rabinowitch, Alexander. Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising. Indiana University Press, 1991.

Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. Pluto Press, 2017.

Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Indiana University Press, 2007.

Reds. Directed by Warren Beatty. Paramount Pictures, 1980. 

Reed, John. Ten Days that Shook the World. Introduction by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Serge, Victor. Year One of the Russian Revolution, Haymarket Books, 2017.

Sholokhov, Mikhail. And Quiet Flows the Don. Translated by Stephen Gary. Penguin, 2017.

Trotsky, Leon. Lessons of October, 1924, The Marxist Internet Archive,  https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/lessons/index.htm, accessed 2 April 2025.

Trotsky, Leon. A History of the Russian Revolution. Haymarket Books, 2008.

Williams, Albert Rhys. Through the Russian Revolution. Boni and Liveright, 1921.

“The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” Petrograd 1917. Directed by Simon Wincer. American Broadcasting Company, 1993

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Jason and Matthew present on the founding documents of the Soviet Union. 

Bibliography:

Carr. E.H. A History of Soviet Russia. Macmillan Press Ltd, 1950–1978. Collection of 14 volumes: The Bolshevik Revolution (3 volumes), The Interregnum (1 volume), Socialism in One Country (4 volumes), and The Foundations of a Planned Economy (6 volumes).

Chamberlin, William. The Russian Revolution 1917-1921: From the Overthrow of the Czar to the Assumption of Power by the Bolsheviks, Vol. I & II. Grosset & Dunlap, 1965.

“Constitution of the R.S.F.S.R.” 1918. The Marxist Internet Archivehttps://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/government/constitution/1918/. Accessed 2 April 2025. 

“Constitution of the USSR.” 1924. Seventeen Moments in Soviet History https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1924-2/union-treaty/union-treaty-texts/first-union-constitution/. Accessed 2 April 2025.

“Declaration of the First Constitution.” 1924. Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. https://soviethistory.msu.edu/1924-2/union-treaty/union-treaty-texts/declaration-of-the-first-constitution/. Accessed 2 April 2025.

Tomba, Massimiliano. “Politics beyond the State: The 1918 Soviet Constitution” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, vol. 24, issue 4, 2017, pp 505-515.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilych. On the National Question. 1901-1922.  The Marxist Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/subject/nation/index.htm, accessed 2 April 2025.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilych. The Questions of Nationalities and Autonomisation. 1922. The Marxist Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/autonomy.htm. Accessed 2 April 2025.

Party State and Society in the Civil War. Edited by Diane P. Koenker, William G. Rosenberg and Ronald Grigor Suny. Indiana University Press, 1989. 

Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich. Declaration of the Formation of the U.S.S.R. 1922. The Marxist Internet Archive. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1922/12/30.htm Accessed 2 April 2025. 

Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich. Marxism and the National Question. 1913. The Marxist Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1913/03a.ht. Accessed 2 April 2025. 

Steinberg, Ian. In the Workshop of the Revolution.1953. Transcribed by Curtis Price Rinehardt & Company. The Marxist Internet Archive https://www.marxists.org/archive/steinberg/1953/workshop/index.htm. Accessed 2 April 2025.

Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States.Oxford University Press, 1998.

“The Russian Soviet Constitution” American Political Science Review. Vol XIII, Issue 2, pp. 293-297, 1919.

Trotsky, Leon. THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SITUATION OF THE SOVIET POWER IN SPRING OF 1918. 1918. The Marxist Internet Archive, https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1918/military/ch07.htm. Accessed 2 April 2025.