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The 1905 Russian Revolution
Alexander Shlyapnikovâs Writings
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 367
Editor / Translator:
These translations by Barbara C. Allen of Alexander Shlyapnikovâs memoirs of his childhood and youth and of his history of the 1905 Revolution in Russia illuminate how a working-class provincial youth from a religious dissenter family became a Marxist revolutionary. The book comprises a brief published autobiography, an unpublished memoir of Shlyapnikovâs childhood, a short fictional piece based on his early experience of factory work, a published historical survey of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, and three article-length published memoir-histories about his early activities in the revolutionary underground and his leadership of a revolutionary organisation in the town of Murom.
Barbara C. Allen, Ph.D. (2001), Indiana University Bloomington, is Professor of Russian & Soviet History at La Salle University. She is author of Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885â1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Brill 2015), and the editor/translator of other works.
"With impeccable scholarship and deep knowledge of the subject, Barbara Allen's book restores the words and experience of an heroic and tragic revolutionary, Alexander Shlyapnikov, who in his commitment to workers offered an alternative to the hyperstatist turn of the Bolsheviks to top-down control of the very people who had made the revolution of 1917. The arch of the revolution from mass support for democracy and socialism descended rapidly into one-party rule dismissive of initiatives by workers. Shlyapnikov's vision was grounded in faith in ordinary people learning to govern, but the harsh environment of war, famine, foreign intervention, and choices made by those in power crippled the Workers' Opposition to the road taken by the Communist Party that soon led to the despotism of Stalin. The lessons learned from reading these early writings by a faithful son of the working class belie the easy conclusion that revolutions must lead away from their emancipatory aspirations of the many to the tyranny of a few".
â Ronald Grigor Suny is the author of Stalin: Passage to Revolution and the William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at The University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at The University of Chicago.
â Ronald Grigor Suny is the author of Stalin: Passage to Revolution and the William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History, Emeritus Professor of Political Science at The University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at The University of Chicago.
List of Figures
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
1 Autobiography
2 Memoir of Childhood
â1âIn Doschatoye
â2âIn Murom
â3âSummer in Doschatoye
â4âTo School
â5âIn School, on the Street, and at Home
â6âWinter
â7âSpring
â8âSummer
â9âIn Second Class
â10âOur Street
â11âSummer Holidays
â12âIn Third Grade
â13âTrip to Nizhny [Novgorod] and Sormovo
3 To the Factory (a Short Story)
4 The Revolution of 1905
â1âStruggle for Land and Freedom
â2âEconomic Development after the Emancipation of the Peasants
â3âWorkersâ Situation and Strike Actions
â4âThe Revolutionary Movement and the War with Japan
â5âThe Governmentâs âSpringâ and the Liberals
â6â9 (22) January
â7âFrom the January Days to the RSDRP Third Congress
â8âThe Peasant Movement
â9âFrom the Strikes of 1 May to a General Strike
â10âRevolutionary Movement in October according to Police Reports
â11âFrom October Strike to December Uprising
â12âCounterrevolutionâs Crusade
â13âRevolutionâs Lessons and Perspectives
5 Underground Work in Murom District, 1902â04
6 The Year 1905 in Murom
7 Red Days in the Hinterland (Murom in 1905)
8 Epilogue
Appendix A: Book Review by Alexander Shlyapnikov
Appendix B: Reviews of Alexander Shlyapnikovâs Works
Appendix C: Excerpts from Alexander Shlyapnikovâs Testimony at His 1933 Purge
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
1 Autobiography
2 Memoir of Childhood
â1âIn Doschatoye
â2âIn Murom
â3âSummer in Doschatoye
â4âTo School
â5âIn School, on the Street, and at Home
â6âWinter
â7âSpring
â8âSummer
â9âIn Second Class
â10âOur Street
â11âSummer Holidays
â12âIn Third Grade
â13âTrip to Nizhny [Novgorod] and Sormovo
3 To the Factory (a Short Story)
4 The Revolution of 1905
â1âStruggle for Land and Freedom
â2âEconomic Development after the Emancipation of the Peasants
â3âWorkersâ Situation and Strike Actions
â4âThe Revolutionary Movement and the War with Japan
â5âThe Governmentâs âSpringâ and the Liberals
â6â9 (22) January
â7âFrom the January Days to the RSDRP Third Congress
â8âThe Peasant Movement
â9âFrom the Strikes of 1 May to a General Strike
â10âRevolutionary Movement in October according to Police Reports
â11âFrom October Strike to December Uprising
â12âCounterrevolutionâs Crusade
â13âRevolutionâs Lessons and Perspectives
5 Underground Work in Murom District, 1902â04
6 The Year 1905 in Murom
7 Red Days in the Hinterland (Murom in 1905)
8 Epilogue
Appendix A: Book Review by Alexander Shlyapnikov
Appendix B: Reviews of Alexander Shlyapnikovâs Works
Appendix C: Excerpts from Alexander Shlyapnikovâs Testimony at His 1933 Purge
Bibliography
Index
This book is especially relevant to scholars and students in the social sciences, particularly those interested in labor history, political activism, and social movements in historical context.