Lenin

Order Description The core required book: Lenin, V.I. and Slavoj Zizek (ed.), 2011. Revolution at the Gates. New York: Verso, 2nd ed. (earlier editions are fine too). External reading materials that it is suggested to be at the paper: Readings: [Internet] If you have never read The Communist Manifesto, you should acquaint yourself: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm,especially Parts I and IV; Browse Lenin, What Is to Be Done?, Preface, Part II, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/index/witbd. Readings: [Packet] Kimmel, “What is a Revolution?”; Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution; Goldstone, “An Analytic Framework”; Baudrillard, “The Silent Majority”, Berkman, “Why Revolution.” Readings: [Text] Zizek, introduction and Lenin (in Zizek), ch. 5-8. [Internet] It is strongly recommended that you take a look at Zizek in action at some point during the course. Readings: [Text] Lenin, review ch. 2, 12; [Packet] Polanyi, “History in the Gear of Social Change”; [Internet] Browse Luxemburg, “The Problem of Dictatorship,” https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1918/russian-revolution/ch06.htm; Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution (Preface), https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/rppr.htm; Trotsky, ch. 10, https://www.marxists,org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/pr10.htm; Recommended but not required: Bernstein, “On the Russian and German Revolutions,” https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1922/xx/rusgerrev.htm.; Kautsky, “Terrorism and Communism,” https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1919/terrcomm/ch08.htm;