The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution

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Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia’s revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first reference point for anyone wishing to learn more about the changes which took place in Russia between 1917 and 1921 and subsequently the 20th century. Split into six sections covering political crises, politicians and parties, social groups, identities, regions and peoples, and civil war, the volume covers the collapse of Tsarism and the February Revolution, the emergence of the Provisional Government, and major historical figures such as Lenin, Kerensky and the Socialist Revolutionary leader Viktor Chernov. It also explores the events surrounding the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the first year of Soviet Government until the Bolshevik dictatorship was established, and the impact on Russia of the subsequent civil war. The focus is broader than these issues of high politics, however, since this handbook also considers events in the provinces as well as revolutionary Petrograd, and examines the social impact of the revolution in terms of class, gender, age and culture. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Part I Political Crises 1 Public organizations and the Duma crisis Peter Waldron, University of East Anglia 2 The February Revolution: Above and below Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California, Santa Barbara 3 Liberalism and the rule of law Ian D. Thatcher, University of Ulster 4 Wartime logistics and the Provisional Government Anthony J. Heywood, University of Aberdeen 5 The October Revolution: Soviet power and socialist government Sally A. Boniece, Frostburg University 6 The early Soviet government, 1917–23 Lara Douds, University of Northumbria Part II Politicians and Parties 7 Alexander Kerensky and the Kerenshchina Boris Kolonitskii, European University at St Petersburg, St Petersburg
Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences 8 Dreaming about Democratic Russia: Viktor Chernov in 1917 Hannu Immonen, Research Fellow Emeritus at the Academy of Finland 9 Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917 Barbara C. Allen, La Salle University Barbara C. Allen, La Salle University 10 Non-Bolshevik internationalists in war and revolution Lutz Häfner, University of Bielefeld 11 The anarchists: ‘Manual workers of the revolution’ and the beginning of the Civil War Dmitrii Ivanov, European University at St Petersburg Part III Social Groups 12 Working for a workers’ constitution Nikolai Mikhailov, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 13 Peasants in the Russian Revolution: Adaption, anxiety, action Peter Fraunholtz, Northeastern University 14 Soldiers: The democratization and disintegration of the army Konstantin A. Tarasov, High School of Economics, St Petersburg,
Research fellow of the St Petersburg Institute of History of the
Russian
Academy of Sciences 15 The lower middle strata and revolution Daniel Orlovsky, Southern Methodist University 16 The ‘revolution from above’: Tsarist elites and the revolutionary process Matthew Rendle, University of Exeter Part IV Identities 17 Russia’s revolutions in 1917: What’s gender got to do with it? Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Brandeis University 18 Masculinity in 1917 Siobhán Hearne, University of Durham 19 Childhood and youth in the Russian Revolution Elizabeth White, University of the West of England, Bristol 20 Culture and revolution: Destruction, creation and preservation in the decade after the revolution Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal, University of Heidelberg Part V Regions and Peoples 21 The revolution and the provincial press Franziska Schedewie and Dennis Dierks, University of Jena 22 The revolution in Smolensk province Michael C. Hickey, Bloomsburg University 23 1917 on the Volga Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham 24 The Ukrainian revolution in 1917: Successful failure Nataliya Kibita, University of Edinburgh 25 Revolution in Turkestan, 1916–20 Gero Fedtke, University of Jena Part VI Civil War 26 The Civil War: An overview Evan Mawdsley, University of Glasgow 27 The Red home front: Building the early Soviet order, 1918–21 Murray Frame, University of Dundee 28 The White home front Nikolaus Katzer, German Historical Institute, Moscow 29 The Bolsheviks and world revolution Geoffrey Swain, University of Glasgow 30 Epilogue: The revolution in 1921 Charlotte Alston, Northumbria University Notes Select English Language Bibliography Index