https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/a6783fcd-a1a8-436b-b692-905b6678634e This series discusses the Menshevik-SR attempts to overthrow the Bolsheviks with the help of foreign imperialists. This episode discusses the Czechoslovak mutiny, the Volga and Siberia White-SR-Menshevik governments, the so-called 'komuch' (Committee for the constituent assembly). Playlist with all episodes in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vS62J0PHzUIazpDQSPP4HLJ Script: [has some additional sources which weren't shown in the video] https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/menshevik-attempt-to-overthrow-bolshevism-ep-4-komuch-volga-siberia-czechoslovak-mutiny/ SOURCES:* Litvinov, The Bolshevik revolution: its rise and meaning Grazhdanskaia voina na Volge v 1918 g Vera Broido, Lenin and the Mensheviks: The Persecution of Socialists under Bolshevism M. Philips Price, My reminiscences of the Russian revolution W. P. & Zelda K. Coates, Armed Intervention in Russia: 1918-1922 Orlando Figes, A people's tragedy : the Russian Revolution 1891-1924, London : Pimlico, 1997 Orlandlo Figes, Peasant Russia, civil war : the Volga countryside in revolution, 1917-1921 V. Serge, Year one of the Russian Revolution, Chicago, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972 Norman G. O. Pereira, The “democratic counterrevolution” of 1918 in Siberia V. Parfenov, The intervention in Siberia 1918-1922 Scott Smith, Captives of revolution : the socialist revolutionaries and the Bolshevik dictatorship, 1918-1923 John Rickman, An Eye-Wittness From Russia Е. И. Медведев, Гражданская война в Среднем Поволжье Vladimir Brovkin, Behind the front lines David Dallen in Leopold Haimson (ed.), The Mensheviks : from the revolution of 1917 to the Second World War Soviet Russia magazine vol. I-II, V N. G. O. Pereira, "Siberian Atamanshchina: Warlordism in the Russian Civil War", in Brovkin (ed.) The Bolsheviks in Russian society D. Galton and J. L. H. Keep, "Letters from Vladivostok, 1918-1923", The Slavonic and East European Review Vol. 45, No. 105 (Jul., 1967) "The Soviet of the Far East: Verbatim Report of a Conversation with' Gertrude M. Robinson, wife of Krasnochokov, President of the Far Eastern Soviet in Siberia", The Liberator, Issue No. 14, April, 1919 *I can recommend the books by Litvinov, Price, Parfenov and Rickman, as well as the communist magazines “Soviet Russia” and “The liberator”. Medvedev is a Soviet revisionist historian, but his book is also not bad. Serge's book is also not bad, but he is an opportunist. The other sources are all anti-communist and not recommended, though Pereira and Figes are actually quite good on the topic of komuch and the Siberian whites. My patreon https://www.patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik My discord https://discord.gg/88JwkF5UhK My blog https://mltheory.wordpress.com/ My Email thefinnishbolshevik@gmail.com Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:59:17 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/a6783fcd-a1a8-436b-b692-905b6678634e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.