https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4ac45e39-f7f3-472b-ad63-f06cb4eae8d6 This series discusses the Menshevik-SR attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks. This episode discusses the topics of repression and the "workers' assemblies" movement. Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS62J0PHzUIazpDQSPP4HLJ Script: https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/10/13/menshevik-attempt-to-overthrow-bolshevism-ep-6-the-workers-assemblies-movement-1918-21/ SOURCES:* Bertrand Russell, The practice and theory of Bolshevism E. H. Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923 Vol. 1, Norton, 1985. V. Serge, Year one of the Russian Revolution, Chicago, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972. George Lansbury, What I saw in Russia H. G. Wells, Russia in the shadows George Denicke, in Leopold Haimson (ed.), The Mensheviks : from the revolution of 1917 to the Second World War В. А. Быстрянский, Меньшевики и эсеры в русской The Liberator, Issue No. 16, June, 1919 Brovkin, The Mensheviks after October Vera Broido, Lenin and the Mensheviks: The Persecution of Socialists under Bolshevism Abraham Ascher, The Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution André Liebich, From the other shore: Russian social democracy after 1921 International press correspondence, Vol. 2, No. 50, June 17, 1922 Alexander Rabinowitch, “Early disenchantment with Bolshevik rule: new data from the archives of the extraordinary assembly of delegates from Petrograd factories”, Politics and society under the Bolsheviks: selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. Orlando Figes, A people’s tragedy : the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London : Pimlico, 1997. Sergei Pavliuchenkov, “Protest Movement Against War Communism” in Brovkin (ed.) The Bolsheviks in Russian society William G. Rosenberg, “Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power after October”, Slavic Review Vol. 44, No. 2 (Summer, 1985) Kronstadt Tragedy cited in Kronstadt 1921: Bolshevism vs. Counterrevolution Scott B. Smith, Captives of revolution : the socialist revolutionaries and the Bolshevik dictatorship, 1918-1923 Simon Pirani, “The Moscow workers’ movement in 1921 and the role of non-partyism”, Europe-Asia Studies, Volume 56, 2004 – Issue 1 *I can recommend the books by George Lansbury and Быстрянский, as well as the communist magazines “International press correspondence” and “The liberator”. The other sources are all anti-communist reactionaries, with the small exception of H. G. Wells, who was a liberal. 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 08:55:47 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/4ac45e39-f7f3-472b-ad63-f06cb4eae8d6 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.