10.43- The Coup of 1907

Wherein we ask the eternal question: Was it really a coup?

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[Shane Doherty]

Charles X is smiling at this episode.

[Joe Snider]

You mentioning "local book store" in your bit about the book really made me thing. I stopped, and didn't order it from amazon (...besides the audio book.) and am now looking for a local bookstore to purchase the book from. :)

[Airlangga Julio]

You said bookshop.com, I look it up and the domain is not there. But there's bookshop.org, it's the same right?

[Mike Pomerantz]

Someone on Reddit pointed this out:

"Duncan is incorrect about the Bolsheviks in the Duma elections of 1907. They actively participated, won 3 of the 6 RSDLP seats. Lenin explained the elections were an important tool for popularizing the revolutionary Bolshevik program with the workers, as opposed to the Mensheviks (called "Liquidators") who favored a more symbolic, less aggressive approach."

Someone else provided some primary sources:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1906/jan/00.htm

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1906/may/10.htm

https://resistantstrain.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/battle-no-6.pdf

It's probably just nitpicking, but what is the point of talking about Lenin if you're not going to nitpick? People have been debating his legacy for a century, and they won't stop any time soon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionsPodcast/comments/l46mvt/the_coup_of_1907/

[John Hughes]

In Anne Applebaum's "Gulag" she discusses the 'stolypinki' which were the prisoner transport rail cars, allegedly introduced by Stolypin.

[Francesco Stolfi]

Actually, the first document posted confirms what Duncan said, i.e. that Lenin and the Bolsheviks declared that they would boycott the Duma elections of 1907

[NWGinGirl]

Chortling - absolutely enjoying this series - but the comments are epic too.
But the whole thing about the Bolsheviks DECLARING they will not participate, but some of them participating - and then explaining why it was important to participate. Way to stay #OnBrand.
And I am certain a new faction was founded in the Bolsheviks because of this - the non-runners, the runners - and then sub-sub factions of those who lost and won.

[Jeremy]

https://bookshop.org/books/hero-of-two-worlds-the-marquis-de-lafayette-and-the-age-of-revolution/9781541730335