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DESCRIPTION:THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION  Teacher: Tom Wetzel  Day: Wed  Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM 
  Class Begins Nov. 2nd  next classes Nov. 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, Dec. 7th  
 Location: Downtown Campus- 88 4th St., San Francisco ( across from the  
 Metreon )  Room #: 725  Course Outline:  1. & 2. Background, the revolution 
 of 1905, formation of big city soviets  of 1917, the "dual power" between 
 soviets & provisional government,  emergence of the factory committee 
 movement, the "division of labor" between  economy & polity in the minds of 
 many workers, the Bolshevik taking of  power,  the new structure of Soviet 
 government, Lenin's decree on "worker control",  Marxist argument for 
 central planning, First Trade Union Congress of  January 1918  3. anarchist 
 stance towards the soviets & "power" and governance,  anarcho-syndicalist 
 response to Marxists on central planning,  differences between 
 anarcho-communists & anarcho-syndicalists  4. War Communism & the 
 consequences of the civil war, program  of the Workers Opposition in 1921, 
 Kronstadt rebellion, "proletarianization"  of the managerial regime & 
 forced collectivization under Stalin.  5. The Makhnovist movement in 
 Ukraine, critique of anarchist  disorganization by Makhno &  Arshinov  6. 
 What is the nature of the Soviet system?  State capitalist? Bureaucratic 
 collectivist? Coordinatorist?  Recommended reading:  Sheila Jackson, The 
 Russian Revolution (a short, easy to read history of the  revolution)  
 Peter Rachleff, Soviets and Factory Committees in the Russian Revolution  
 [handout]  (available online)  Maurice Brinton, Bolsheviks & Workers 
 Control (in the anthology For Workers  Power,  also available online)  
 Alexandre Skirda, Nestor Makhno: Anarchy's Cossack  Michael Albert & Robin 
 Hahnel, "The Soviet Experience" in Socialism Today  and Tomorrow  [handout] 
  Ida Mett, The Kronstadt Uprising, 1921  Paul Avrich, Kronstadt 1921\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/31/79683.php
SUMMARY:Free Community Anarchist Class with Tom Wetzel at CCSF
LOCATION:Location: Downtown Campus- 88 4th St., San Francisco ( across from the  
 Metreon )  Room #: 725
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/10/31/79683.php
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