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)