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Subject(s)

• Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917-1921—Historiography [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Politics and government—1917-1936—Historiography [Browse]
• Soviet Union—History—Revolution, 1917-1921—Influence [Browse]

Editor

• Leonard, Carol S. (Carol Scott), 1945- [Browse]
• Orlovsky, Daniel, 1947- [Browse]
• Petrov, Jurej [Browse]

Series

• BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies [More in this series]
• Basees/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies

Summary note

"The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in Soviet times. This book, which brings together a range of leading historians of the Russian Revolution - from both Russia and the West, and both younger and older historians - explores the changes in the way in which the October 1917 Revolution is commemorated, and also examines fundamental questions about what the Russian Revolution - indeed what any revolution - was anyway. Among issues covered are how Soviet and Western historians diverged in their early assessments of what the Revolution achieved, how the period studied by historians has recently extended both much earlier before 1917 and much later afterwards, and how views of the Revolution within the Soviet Union changed over time from acceptance of the official Communist Party interpretation to more independent viewpoints. Overall, the book provides a major reassessment of one of the twentieth century's most important events"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Introduction: Interpreting the Russian Revolution of 1917
• II. Selected Western Revisionist Interpretations and their Critics
• "How to End the Revolution: A problem for revolutionaries, their successors and historians" / Sheila Fitzpatrick
• "Lessons of October" (previously published) / Ronald Suny
• "Soviet History Framework for Assessing the Russian Revolution" (previously published) / Robert Service
• "The Politics of National History: Russia's Ruling Elite and the Centenary of 1917" / James Ryan
• III. The Major Soviet-era and Post-Soviet Russian Perspectives
• "Soviet historiography of the Revolution of 1917: Between historical politics and scholarly research" / Vitaly Tikhonov
• "Post-Soviet Writing about the October Revolution" / Vladimir Prokhorovich Buldakov
• "Culture in Revolution
• Revolution in Culture" / Tatiana Filippova
• IV. New Approaches "The Leap Not the Landing"
• "The Revolution We have Lost: 1917 as Future Possibility" / Mark Steinberg
• "Perestroika byta and the Urban Communes: From the floors of the old house a new way of life will arise" /Andy Willlimott
• "Psychological and Emotional Experience in the Russian Revolution" / Vladislav Aksenov
• "Gender Images in the Russian Revolution: Backward Women and Forward Men in Iconic Perspective, 1919-1923"
• Strategic Space During the Revolution
• "Government in revolution: Power, ideology and practice across 1917" / Lara Douds
• "Railroads and Strikes in Russia (1894-1904): Railroad building in times of Revolution" / Carol Leonard, Leonid Borodkin, Roman Konchakov, Maria Karpenko and Zafar Nazarov
• Continuum of Crisis
• "Revolutions and Times of Crisis" / Vladimir Mau and Carol Leonard
• Impact Assessment
• "Two Octobers" / Robert A Rosenstone
• "Hitler, Stalin, or Roosevelt? Which Faces of the 1930s will we see in the 2020s?"/ Jack Goldstone.

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ISBN

• 9780367146917 ((hardback))
• 0367146916
• 9781032814537 ((paperback))
• 1032814535

LCCN

2024016694

OCLC

1420442204

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