Donald Raleigh. Experiencing Russia’s Civil War.

Contents

Introduction: Experiencing Russia’s Civil War

PART ONE

POLITICS

1 – Revolution on the Volga

2 – Languages of Power: How the Saratov Bolsheviks Imagined Their Enemies

3 – The Rise and Fall of the Saratov “Republic”

4 – Cadres Resolve All: The Communists in Power

5 – Co-optation amid Repression: The Revolutionary Communists and Other Socialist Parties in Saratov Province

PART TWO

SOCIETY AND REVOLUTIONARY CULTURE

6 – A Community in Disarray, a Community in the Making

7 – The Cultural Practices of Provincial Communism

8 – Narratives of Self and Other: Saratov’s Bourgeoisie

9 – Not Seeing Like a State: The Red Guard Assault on Capital

10 – Peasants in a Workers’Revolution

11 – “Given His Class Position, a Worker Can Be Nothing but a Communist”

12 – A Provincial Kronstadt, Another Tambov?

Conclusion