https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/0a3749e4-2b2a-41c9-8739-2cf054259d47 This series discusses the Menshevik-SR attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks. This episode discusses the topic "were the Soviets destroyed?" and who really wanted to destroy them. Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS62J0PHzUIazpDQSPP4HLJ Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/11/10/menshevik-attempt-to-overthrow-bolshevism-ep-7-were-the-soviets-destroyed-who-wanted-to-destroy-them/ SOURCES:* The Soviet Peasantry: An Outline History (1917-1970) Kunal Chattopadhyay, “Revolutionary Democracy in 1917 and the Bolsheviks”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, No. 44 (November 4, 2017) Oskar Anweiler, The soviets : the Russian workers, peasants, and soldiers councils, 1905-1921 Orlando Figes, A people’s tragedy : the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London : Pimlico, 1997 N. Sukhanov, The Russian revolution 1917: eyewitness account, vol. 1 Eroshkin, The Soviets in Russia M. Philips Price, “The Truth About Soviet Russia” (third installment), Soviet Russia, Vol. I New York, August 16, 1919 No. 11 M. Philips Price, “The Truth About Soviet Russia” (first installment), Soviet Russia, Vol. I New York, August 2, 1919 No. 9 “Bolshevismin Leveneminen”, Tie vapauteen, N:o 2/1919 Alexander Rabinowitch, “The Evolution of Local Soviets in Petrograd, November 1917-June 1918 Brovkin, The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Wars Leopold Haimson (ed.), The Mensheviks : from the revolution of 1917 to the Second World War Israel Getzler, Martov: a political biography of a Russian social democrat Lenin, The proletarian revolution and the renegade Kautsky Brovkin, The Mensheviks after October *”The Soviet Peasantry” is a brezhnevite revisionist book, not terrible, but has obvious issues. The writings of Price are quite good. All the other sources (besides Lenin of course) are anti-communist and I don’t recommend them. My patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik My discord https://discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK My blog https://mltheory.wordpress.com/ My Email thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:03:41 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/0a3749e4-2b2a-41c9-8739-2cf054259d47 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.