Leon Trotsky, the Cultural Debates, and the Political Struggle in 1923
äºHistorical MaterialismSearch for other papers by Alexander Reznik in
Current site
Google Scholar
Abstract
This article examines interconnections between politics and culture in the early Soviet era, using Leon Trotskyâs activities in the campaign for a new everyday life (novyi byt) in 1923 as a case-study. Traditionally, scholars pay attention primarily to Trotskyâs writings on literature and art. In contrast, this article shows the important role of Trotskyâs brochure âProblems of Everyday Lifeâ in the development of a new field of political communication that became the space for criticism of different political and cultural aspects of Soviet power and Bolshevik rule. Using archival and press sources, it shows how the campaign was spread both from below and above, and what were the reasons for its failure to become an alternative cultural revolution.
Purchase
Buy instant access (PDF download and unlimited online access):
Institutional Login
Log in with Open Athens, Shibboleth, or your institutional credentials
Personal login
Log in with your brill.com account
-
Albert, Gleb J. 2011, ââGerman October is Approachingâ: Internationalism, Activists, and the Soviet State in 1923â, Revolutionary Russia, 24, 2: 111â142.
-
Albert, Gleb J. 2017, Das Charisma der Weltrevolution: Revolutionärer Internationalismus in der frühen Sowjetgesellschaft 1917â1927, Cologne: Böhlau Verlag.
-
[Anonymous] 1924, Materialy po samoobrazovaniyu. Trotsky â Voprosy byta, Baku: n.p.
-
Bernstein, Frances L. 2007, The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses, DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press.
-
Bird, Robert 2018, âCulture as Permanent Revolution: Lev Trotskyâs Literature and Revolutionâ, Studies in East European Thought, 70, 2â3: 181â193.
-
Boym, Svetlana 1994, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
-
Brodyanskyi, Boris 1923a, âGrani Bytaâ, Krasnyi Student, 11â12: 27â28.
-
Brodyanskyi, Boris 1923b, âOt passivnoyi kritiki k aktivnoyi raboteâ, Krasnyi Student, 9â10: 32â33.
-
Broué, Pierre 1988, Trotsky, Paris: Fayard.
-
Carr, Edward Hallett 1954, The Interregnum, Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books.
-
Carr, Edward Hallett 1960, Socialism in One Country, 1924â1926, New York: Macmillan.
-
Daniels, Robert V. 1960, The Conscience of the Revolution: Communist Opposition in Soviet Russia, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
-
David-Fox, Michael 1997, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918â1929, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
-
David-Fox, Michael 1999, âWhat Is Cultural Revolution?â, The Russian Review, 58, 2: 181â201.
-
Demidov, Vadim V. 1997, Politicheskaya borâba i oppozitsiya v bolâshevistskikh organizatsiyakh Sibiri (noyabrâ 1919 g.âdekabrâ 1929 g.), Novosibirsk: Izd-vo Sibirskogo kadrovogo tsentra.
-
Deutscher, Isaac 2003 [1959], The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921â1929, London: Verso.
-
Eltsin, Boris M. (ed.) 1924, Politicheskiy slovarâ. Kratkoe nauchno-poluliarnoe tolkovanie slov, Second Edition, Moscow: Krasnaya Novâ.
-
Felâshtinskyi, Iuriy and Grigoriy Cherniavskyi 2013, Lev Trotskiy. Kniga Tretya. Oppozitsioner. 1923â1929 gg., Moscow: Tsentropoligraf.
-
Fitzpatrick, Sheila 1970, The Commissariat of Enlightenment: Soviet Organization of Education and the Arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917â1921, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-
Fitzpatrick, Sheila 2006, Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
-
Gorsuch, Anne E. 2000, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
-
Grigorov, Grigoryi 2005, Povoroty sudâby i proizvol: Vospominaniya 1905â1927 gody, Moscow: OGI.
-
Guillory, Sean 2014, âProfiles in Exhaustion and Pomposity: The Everyday Life of Komsomol Cadres in the 1920sâ, The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, â 2303, available at: <https://carlbeckpapers.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cbp/article/view/195/205>.
-
Guseinov, Abdusalam A. (ed.) 1989, Partiynaya etika: Dokumenty i materialy diskussii 20-kh godov, Moscow: Politizdat.
-
Halfin, Igal 2007, Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918â1928, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
-
Hicks, Jeremy 2006, âFrom Conduits to Commanders: Shifting Views of Worker Correspondents, 1924â1926â, Revolutionary Russia, 19, 2: 131â149.
-
Highmore, Ben (ed.) 2002, The Everyday Life Reader, London: Routledge.
-
Kiaer, Christina 2005, Imagine no Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism, Cambridge, MA: The MITPress.
-
Kiaer, Christina and Eric Naiman 2006 (eds.), Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
-
Knei-Paz, Baruch 1978, The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-
Lefebvre, Henri 2014, Critique of Everyday Life: The Three-Volume Text, translated by John Moore and Gregory Elliott, London: Verso.
-
Lewin, Moshe 2005, Leninâs Last Struggle, Second Edition, âAnn Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
-
Mally, Lynn 1990, Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
-
Neumann, Matthias 2011, The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917â1932, Abingdon: Routledge.
-
Novikova, Liudmila G. 2013, âRussiaâs Red Revolutionary and White Terror, 1917â1921: A Provincial Perspectiveâ, Europe-Asia Studies, 65, 9: 1755â1770.
-
Pavlov, Valeryi S. 1986, Borâba kommunisticheskoy partii protiv trotskizma po voprosam kulâturnogo stroitelâstva. Kand. diss., Leningrad: Leningradsky pedagogichesky universitet.
-
Pinnow, Kenneth M. 2010, Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921â1929, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
-
Pirani, Simon 2008, The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920â24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite, New York: Routledge.
-
Rendle, Matthew 2013, âDefining the âPoliticalâ Crime: Revolutionary Tribunals in Early Soviet Russiaâ, Europe-Asia Studies, 65, 9: 1771â1788.
-
Retish, Aaron B. 2013, âControlling Revolution: Understandings of Violence through the Rural Soviet Courts, 1917â1923â, Europe-Asia Studies, 65, 9: 1789â1806.
-
Reznik, Aleksandr V. 2018, Trotskyi i tovarishchi: Levaya oppositsiya i politicheskaya kulâltura RKP(b), 1923â1924 gody, Second Edition, Saint Petersburg: Izdatelâstvo Evropeiskogo Universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge.
-
Rigby, T.H. 1981, âEarly Provincial Cliques and the Rise of Stalinâ, Soviet Studies, 33, 1: 3â28.
-
Roberts, John 2006, Philosophizing the Everyday: Revolutionary Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Theory, London: Pluto Press.
-
Rogovin, Vadim Z. 1992, Byla li alâternativa? Trotskizm, vzglyiad cherez gody, Moscow: Terra.
-
Rosenberg, William G. (ed.) 1990, Bolshevik Visions: First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia. Part 1: The Culture of a New Society: Ethics, Gender, the Family, Law, and Problems of Tradition, Second Edition, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
-
Ryan, James 2013, âCleansing NEP Russia: State Violence against the Russian Orthodox Church in 1922â, Europe-Asia Studies, 65, 9: 1807â1826.
-
Service, Robert 2009, Trotsky: A Biography, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
-
Smith, Stephen A. 1983, Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917â1918, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
-
Smith, Stephen A. 1998, âThe Social Meanings of Swearing: Workers and Bad Language in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russiaâ, Past and Present, 160: 167â202.
-
Starks, Tricia 2009, The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
-
Stites, Richard 1989, Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-
Stone, David R. 2006, âShefstvo: Lev Trotsky and the Military Origins of Revolutionary Patronageâ, Revolutionary Russia, 19, 1: 23â36.
-
Tan-Bogoraz, Vladimir G. (ed.) 1924, Staryi i novyi byt, Leningrad: Gosizdat.
-
Thatcher, Ian D. 1994, âTrotsky and Borâbaâ, The Historical Journal, 37, 1: 113â125.
-
Thatcher, Ian D. 2003, Trotsky, London: Routledge.
-
Trotsky, Leon 1973, Problems of Everyday Life, and Other Writings on Culture & Science, translated by G.R. Fidler et al., New York: Monad Press.
-
Trotsky, Lev 1923a, âPismo tov. Trotskogo otdelu rabotnits TSK RKP v denâ torzhestvennogo zasedaniyaâ, Kommunistka, 12: 1.
-
Trotsky, Lev 1923b, Voprosy byta. Epokha âkulturnichestvaâ i ee zadachi, Moscow: Krasnaya novâ.
-
Trotsky, Lev 1923c, Voprosy byta. Epokha âkulturnichestvaâ i ee zadachi, Second Edition, Moscow: Krasnaya novâ.
-
Trotsky, Lev 1924, Voprosy kulturnoi raboty, Moscow: Gosizdat.
-
Trotsky, Lev 1927, Sochineniya. Tom XXI. Kultura Perekhodnogo Perioda, Moscow- Leningrad: n.p.
-
Trotsky, Lev 1991 [1924], Literatura i revolutsiya, Moscow: Politizdat.
-
Turitsyn, Igor V. 1998, Kadrovaya politika RKP(b) i periodicheskaya pechat (1921â1925 gg.), Armavir: AGPI.
-
Vilkova, Valentina P. (ed.) 2004, RKP(b): vnutripartiinaya borâba v dvadtsatye gody: dokumenty i materialy, 1923 g., Moscow: ROSSPEN.
-
V.N. 1923, âVoprosy byta (S chego nachatâ)â, Proletaryi. Yezhemesyachnyi Zhurnal Permskogo Gubkoma, 9â10: 8â11.
-
White, James D. 2013, âAlexander Bogdanovâs Conception of Proletarian Cultureâ, Revolutionary Russia, 26, 1: 52â70.
-
Willimott, Andy 2016, Living the Revolution: Urban Communes and Soviet Socialism, 1917â1932, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-
Wood, Elizabeth A. 2000, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
-
Wood, Elizabeth A. 2005, Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
| å ¨é¨æé´ | è¿å»ä¸å¹´ | è¿å»30天 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| æè¦æµè§æ¬¡æ° | 1765 | 178 | 15 |
| å ¨ææµè§æ¬¡æ° | 213 | 25 | 1 |
| PDFä¸è½½æ¬¡æ° | 429 | 68 | 3 |
Leon Trotsky, the Cultural Debates, and the Political Struggle in 1923
äºHistorical MaterialismSearch for other papers by Alexander Reznik in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
This article examines interconnections between politics and culture in the early Soviet era, using Leon Trotskyâs activities in the campaign for a new everyday life (novyi byt) in 1923 as a case-study. Traditionally, scholars pay attention primarily to Trotskyâs writings on literature and art. In contrast, this article shows the important role of Trotskyâs brochure âProblems of Everyday Lifeâ in the development of a new field of political communication that became the space for criticism of different political and cultural aspects of Soviet power and Bolshevik rule. Using archival and press sources, it shows how the campaign was spread both from below and above, and what were the reasons for its failure to become an alternative cultural revolution.
| å ¨é¨æé´ | è¿å»ä¸å¹´ | è¿å»30天 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| æè¦æµè§æ¬¡æ° | 1765 | 178 | 15 |
| å ¨ææµè§æ¬¡æ° | 213 | 25 | 1 |
| PDFä¸è½½æ¬¡æ° | 429 | 68 | 3 |
