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Politics and people revolutionary russia

By Sarah Badcock

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521876230, 9780521876230, 9780511355653
Open Library ID
OL22762648M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1915556 bytes)
Series
New Studies in European History
Pages
282\282
Topic
History
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34
Исторические дисциплины;История России;Новейшая ис

Description

After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917, Russia was subject to an eight-month experiment in democracy. Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of the experiences and motivations of ordinary men and women, urban and rural, military and civilian.Using previously neglected documents from regional archives, she offers a newhistory of the revolution as experienced in the two Volga provinces ofNizhegorod and Kazan. She exposes the confusions and contradictions between political elites and ordinary people and emphasises the role of the latter as political actors. By looking beyond Petersburg and Moscow, she shows how local concerns, conditions and interests were foremost in shaping how the revolution was received and understood. She also reveals the ways in which the small group of intellectuals who dominated the high political scene of 1917 had their political alternatives circumscribed by the desires and demands of ordinary people.

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