1905 Revolution

[BOZG]

I'm looking for some good sources on the 1905 Revolution in Russia. I need both standard histories of it, outline the events and developments of the Revolution and if possible, political critiques of it by the likes of Lenin, Trotsky, filthy anarchists :P and other revolutionaries.

[Monty Cantsin]

Leon Trotsky’s 1905 -

http://www.marx.org/archive/trotsky/works/1905/index.htm

thats the only one i've looked at but i'll be interested in what you and other find.

[Hampton]

1905-1907 (http://www.stel.ru/museum/first_russian_revolution_1905.htm)

Timeline (http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/readyref/blrrevstimeline3.htm)

More Stuff (http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/rev1905.html)

www.sozialistische-klassiker.org/Lenin/Lene16.html+1905+russian+revolution+lenin+opinion&hl=en]Lenin: (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Y1hfjDehopoJ:[url) ON THE TWO LINES IN THE REVOLUTION[/url]

[Blackguard]

try looking up for a book called A history of Russia: peoples, legends, events, forces by Evtuhov/Goldfrank/Hughes/Stites

[Maynard]

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/jan/09.htm is a lecture by Lenin on it

The Revolution of 1905: Russia in Disarray and Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored both by Abraham Ascher are books on it.

[BOZG]

Blackguard and Maynard,
Thanks but you're a bit late, I've already done my lectures on it :P

[Monty Cantsin]

How'd it go?

[BOZG]

Not too bad, I left a few bits and pieces but they were discussed later. Probably better off actually as it gave a bit of room for discussion.

I had to give the same topic to different meetings so they were both quite similar. I was hoping to revamp it a bit the second time around but I had the flu so I was in no mood for re-writing anything.

[Spartakist]

I think you should check Rosa Luxemburg's text: The Mass Strike (http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/index.htm). She was the first to point out that the Revolution was carried spontaneously:


For the first time in the history of the class struggle it has achieved a grandiose realisation of the idea of the mass strike and–as we shall discuss later–has even matured the general strike and thereby opened a new epoch in the development of the labour movement.

[BOZG]

Thanks. I have to do another speech on it in Glasgow in a few weeks.