Revolution and Counter-Revolution Study Group: Readings Archive
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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the 20th Century
A NY Solidarity Study Group, 2008-2009
1. The 1917 Russian Revolution
Two sessions:
Kevin Murphy, Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory
2. The German Revolution
Session 1:
Chris Harman, The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918-1923, Chapters 1-8.
Optional: Pierre Broue, The German Revolution, 1917-1923, Chapters 1-15.
Session 2:
Chris Harman's The Lost Revolution: Germany 1918-1923, Chapters 9-14.
Optional: Pierre Broue, The German Revolution, 1917-1923, Chapters 16-47.
3. Revolution in China: Legacies of 1927 and 1949
Session 1:
Pierre Rousset, IIRE Notebooks:
Session 2:
Marc Blecher, China Against the Tides, on the Mao period (1949-1978). Download.
Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett, China and Socialism on the post-Mao period (1979-Present) Download.
4. The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
Fernando Claudin, The Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform, Volume I, pp. 126-166 Download.
5. The Popular Front in Europe
Fernando Claudin, The Communist Movement, Volume I, pp. 166-242. Download.
6. The Spanish Civil War
Pierre Broue and Emile Termine, The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain, Part I
For the time-pressed: Andy Durgan, The Spanish Revolution Download.
7. The 1930s Workers’ Movement and the Popular Front in the US
Session 1:
Charlie Post, "The Popular Front in the US: The Only Option?" Download.
J. Stepan-Norris and M. Zeitlin, Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions, Chapters 8 and 9. Download.
Session 2:
Charlie Post's "The Popular Front in the US: The Only Option?"
J. Stepan-Norris and M. Zeitlin, Left Out: Reds and America's Industrial Unions, Conclusion and Epilogue
S. Dollinger and G. Johnson-Dollinger, Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Autoworkers Union, Chapters 1, 2 and 14. Download.
8. The Cuban Revolution
Sam Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered
Download Part I.
Download Part II.
Download Part III.
Excerpt from Joseph Hansen, The Dynamics of the Cuban Revolution: A Marxist Appreciation.
Download Part I.
Download Part II.
9. Post-War France
Session 1 (Class Struggle and Resistance in France, 1940-1947):
Ernest Mandel, The Meaning of the Second World War (excerpts) Download.
Harvey Goldberg lecture
Session 2 (May ’68):
Ian Birchall, “France 1968: All Power to the Imagination!” from Revolutionary Rehearsals (Colin Barker, ed.)
Harvey Goldberg lecture
10. The 1979 Iranian Revolution
Maryam Poya, “Iran 1979” from Revolutionary Rehearsals (Colin Barker, ed.)
11. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Alan Lomax, "The Workers Councils of Greater Budapest," from Socialist Register (1976).
Mike Haynes, "Hungary: Workers councils against Soviet tanks," from International Socialism (2006). Link.
12. The Rise and Fall of Solidarnosc
Colin Barker, “Poland 1980-81: The Self-Limiting Revolution,” from Revolutionary Rehearsals (Colin Barker, ed.)
Daniel Singer, “The Sad Saga of Solidarity.” Whose Millennium?
Download.
13. Chile under Popular Unity
Mike Gonzalez, “Chile 1972-73: The Workers United,” from Revolutionary Rehearsals (Colin Barker, ed.)
Film screening: Battle of Chile, Vol. 3
