NYU Summer 2017 readings: Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution

Summer 2017 readings: Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution

• required/ + recommended reading
• Lenin readings available in Robert C. Tucker, ed., The Lenin Anthology (Norton, 1977), except (*) on marxists.org

Recommended background readings

+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1977)
+ John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World (1919)

Week 1 | June 19

• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution(1905)
• Lenin, On the Two Lines in the Revolution(1915) *

Week 2 | June 26

• Lenin, Lecture on the 1905 Revolution(1917)
• Lenin, Letters from Afar (1917) *
• Lenin, April Theses (1917)

Week 4 | July 10

• Lenin, The Dual Power(1917)
• Lenin, The Enemies of the People (1917)
• Lenin, The Beginning of Bonapartism (1917)

Week 5 | July 17

• Lenin, Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power?(1917)
• Lenin, Marxism and Insurrection (1917)
• Lenin, Advice of an Onlooker (1917)

Week 6 | July 24

• Lenin, To the Citizens of Russia!(1917)
• Lenin, Theses on the Constituent Assembly (1917)
• Lenin, The Chief Task of Our Day (1918)
• Lenin, The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government (1918)

Week 7 | July 31

• Lenin, The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky(1918)