Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia

This is a stimulating and highly original collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. The contributors reinterpret key issues and debates, including political, social, cultural and international aspects of the Russian revolution stretching from the late imperial period into the early Soviet state.

'The volume as a whole provides a much welcome revisionist approach to our understanding of revolutionary movements and events in Russia, as well as their broader international context, mainly focusing on the period from 1905 through to the Civil War, but also extending into the Stalin period.' - Melanie Ilic, Europe-Asia Studies

'Ian Thatcher has assembled an impressive collection of highly readable essays in honour of James White.' - Harold Shukman, SEER, The Slavonic and East European Review

Autorentext
DAVID BRANDENBERGER Assistant Professor of History, University of Richmond, USA MARY HANNAH BYERS Exhibitions Manager at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA PAUL DUKES Professor Emeritus of the Department of History, University of Aberdeen, UK ANYA HILLYAR Independent Scholar JOHN KEEP Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada JANE MCDERMID Senior Lecturer in History, University of Southampton, UK CHRISTOPHER READ Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK DAVID SAUNDERS Professor of History, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK JONATHAN D. SMELE Senior Lecturer in History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK GEOFFREY SWAIN Alec Nove Professor, University of Glasgow, UK REX A. WADE Professor of History, George Mason University, USA

Inhalt
Introduction; I.D.Thatcher Terror in 1905; J.Keep Mariya Spiridonova: Russian Martyr and British Heroine? The Portrayal of a Russian Female Terrorist in the British Press; J.McDermid The First World War and the End of Tsarism; D.Saunders The October Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, and the End of the Russian Revolution; R.A.Wade Trotsky and the Russian Civil War; G.Swain A Bolshevik in Brixton Prison: Fedor Raskol'nikov and the Origins of Anglo-Soviet Relations; J.D.Smele Retrieving the Historical Lenin; C.Read In Lenin's Shadow: Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Bolshevik Revolution; J.McDermid & A.Hillyar Soviet 'Foreign Policy' and the Versailles-Washington System; P.Dukes From 'State of the Art' to 'State Art': The Rise of Socialist Realism at the Tretyakov Gallery; M.H.Byers Politics Projected into the Past: What Precipitated the 1936 Campaign Against M. N. Pokrovsky?; D.Brandenberger