Summer 2017 readings: Lenin and the 1917 Russian Revolution


Chicago

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Wednesdays 6pm

116 S. Michigan Ave., Room 202

Berkeley

Berkeley City College Room 033

Mondays 6:00PM

Last seven weeks beginning June 19th

required / * recommended reading

Lenin readings available in Robert C. Tucker, ed., The Lenin Anthology (Norton, 1977), except (*) on marxists.org

Week 1 | June 14

• 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 21

Lenin, Lecture on the 1905 Revolution (1917)

Lenin, Letters from Afar (1917) *

Lenin, April Theses (1917)

Week 3 | June 28

Lenin, The Dual Power (1917)

Lenin, The Enemies of the People (1917)

Lenin, The Beginning of Bonapartism (1917)

Week 4 | July 5

Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)

Week 5 | July 12

Lenin, Can the Bolsheviks Retain State Power? (1917)

Lenin, Marxism and Insurrection (1917)

Lenin, Advice of an Onlooker (1917)

Week 6 | July 19

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 26

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