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Creeping Authoritarianism in Higher Education and research in georgia: What A Difference A War Makes? Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Sarah Slye
In September 2023, one of the buildings belonging to the National Historical Archives of Georgia caught fire, destroying many valuable cinematographic and audio materials from Soviet times. The aut...
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its impact on research Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-31 George Gilbert
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Class Elisions: Social Dimensions of Violence and State Building in Europe’s Great War and Revolution Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Yiannis Kokosalakis
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Doing Research During Wartime: A View from the Regions Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Aaron B. Retish
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Legacy of the ‘Archival Revolution’ Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Matthew Rendle
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Dilemmas of Historical Research Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Matthew Rendle, Aaron B. Retish
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Malika Zehni
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Away from Russia? History Writing Before, During, and After the War Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Olena Palko
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Coming to Terms With Russian History Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Alison K. Smith
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Toward a Constitutional Monarchy or a Dictatorship? The Progressive Nationalists, the Far Right, and the Monarchy, July 1914–February 1917 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Mikhail N. Loukianov
The advocates of opposing versions of Russian conservatism during the First World War, Progressive Nationalism and the Far Right, saw the tsar’s figure as a symbolic expression of state power, and ...
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Russian Utopia: A Century of Revolutionary Possibilities Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Ben Phillips
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Theodore R. Weeks
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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Revolutionary, Terrorist, and Muse: Mariia Alekseevna Prokof’eva, 1883–1913 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Ben Phillips
This article uses a variety of published and archival sources to reconstruct the life of Mariia Alekseevna Prokof’eva (1883-1913), a member of the Combat Organization (i.e. terrorist wing) of the R...
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Life and Death in Revolutionary Ukraine: Living Conditions, Violence, and Demographic Catastrophe, 1917–1923 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Christopher Gilley
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 2, 2023)
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The Re-Radicalization of Baku Provincial Workers in 1916 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Soli Shahvar, Anatoly Mishaev
This article studies police reports in Baku province in 1915–16 housed in the State Historical Archive of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The reports written by the detectives of Baku province’s gendarmerie reflect larger trends in Baku’s changing socio-economic and political dynamics during the First World War. The gendarmerie expressed concern that the rising cost of living was hurting the population
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Bab’i Bunty in Semirech’e: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Central Asia during the First World War Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Alexander Morrison
Bab'i bunty – women's riots - were a form of collective action in which women responded to crisis by making conscious and explicit use of their sex to achieve clear political goals. Owing to rapidly rising prices of food and manufactured goods from 1916 onwards the First World War saw widespread bab'i bunty across the Russian empire. In Semirech'e – the only region of Russian Central Asia with a substantial
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Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison, 1884-1906 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Max Hodgson
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2023)
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Krushenie Tsentrosibiri: monografiia Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Michał Patryk Sadłowski
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2023)
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Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Choi Chatterjee
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2023)
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Larry Holmes. Revisiting the Revolution: The Unmaking of Russia's Official History of 1917 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-05-01 William A. Clark
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2023)
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Stalin’s Quest for Gold: The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-05-01 James Allen Nealy Jr.
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2023)
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Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov’s Life and Writings Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Margaret Tejerizo
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 36, No. 1, 2023)
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Failing to Create Revolutionaries: Polish POWs in Soviet Captivity, 1920–21 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Peter Whitewood
This article examines the Bolshevik Party’s efforts to radicalize tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war (POWs) held in makeshift prison camps across Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the Soviet-Polish War of 1919−20. The end goal was to create a new cadre of Polish revolutionaries to agitate for revolutionary change on repatriation. These propaganda efforts were almost entirely undermined by
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The Riga Treaty of 1921 and the Long Archival Negotiation Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Nataliya Borys
This article explores the negotiations for the restitution of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth archives to the Second Polish Republic by the Soviet Union as stipulated in the Riga Treaty of 1921. The Soviet authorities in the 1920s were in a weak position to negotiate advantageous conditions, and agreed to the restitution of all archives, libraries, and art collections looted after 1772, the
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Revisiting the Polish Vector in Soviet History and Politics Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Olena Palko, Peter Whitewood
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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Between Moscow, Warsaw and the Holy See: The Case of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz Amidst the Early Soviet Anti-Catholic Campaign Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Olena Palko
This article offers a micro-history of Soviet anti-religious actions during the mid-1920s through a reconstruction of the investigation of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz and his forced collaboration with the Soviet secret services. In November 1924, Fedukowicz was forced to sign a letter to Pope Pius XI and a year later committed suicide to avoid the humiliation caused by his actions. This article reveals
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The Russian Civil War, 1918–1921. An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army’s Combat Operations Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-11-23 A.V. Ganin
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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Stalindorfs'kyi raion: dokumenty i materialy Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Olena Palko
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Colleen Lucey
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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Novomu cheloveku – novaia smert’? Pokhoronnaia kul’tura rannego SSSR Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Dmitrii Ivanov
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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‘Our Work with the Masses is not Worth a Kopeck … ’: A Document Collection on German and Polish Rural Soviets in Ukraine during the NEP, 1923–1929 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Amber N. Nickell
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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The Path to the Soviet Nation: The Policy of Belarusization Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Olena Palko
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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Colleen Lucey. Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-10-23 LeiAnna X. Hamel
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-10-05 Adrianne K. Jacobs
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 2, 2022)
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Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Christopher Gilley
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2022)
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E. H. Carr’s Revolutionary Personalities Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Timothy K. Blauvelt
Despite his diminished standing as a public intellectual, E. H. Carr (1892–1982) retains a begrudging respect among historians of the Soviet Union and the Russian Revolution. In fact, his nuanced and subjective philosophy of history and commitment to dispassionate empirical research laid a foundation for the revisionist approaches to Soviet history that have since become mainstream in the field. Yet
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Science, State, and Culture: Decorations for the 1967 October Festival Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Evgeniya Yarkova
The October Revolution festival, introduced as a public holiday in Soviet Russia in 1919, was always both a reflection of the contemporary political situation and an instrument to impose necessary ideological concepts. This article focuses on the festival designs completed by the experimental group from Moscow, Dvizhenie, for the fiftieth anniversary. It analyses the focus of state propaganda in 1967
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Stalin, Falsifier in Chief: E. H. Carr and the Perils of Historical Research Introduction Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Ronald Grigor Suny
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2022)
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A Local Face of Revolution: The Confrontation of the Dagestani ‘Ulamā’ over Najm al-Dīn Gotsinsky’s Imamate and the Russian Revolutions of 1917 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Naira Sahakyan
This article investigates debates between religious leaders in Dagestan during the Russian Revolution on the state-building project of imamate. Analysing the attempt of a group of religious leaders led by Najm al-Dīn Gotsinsky to reestablish the Dagestani imamate, the article situates that struggle within the broader context of the Russian Revolution, where the Whiles and the Reds were fighting for
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Why Does President Putin Object to Ukraine? Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-05-16 David Saunders
This article contrasts the picture which President Vladimir Putin paints of Ukraine with the vigour Ukrainians displayed at the time of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–20.
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Lenin150 (Samizdat) Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Christopher Read
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2022)
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‘The Commander-in-Chief’s Parliament’: The Practice of Dual Power in the Petrograd Garrison in 1917 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Konstantin Tarasov
This article examines the functioning of military power in the Petrograd garrison during the revolution of 1917. This problem is viewed as part of a study of the dual power system. Formally, all power over the soldiers in Petrograd belonged to the Commander-in-Chief and the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District. However, the conditions of the revolution created a new contact body between
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Stalin and the Silences of the Official History of His Role in the Prerevolutionary Bolshevik Underground Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-05-06 David Brandenberger
At the height of his cult of personality in 1938, Stalin deleted almost all references to his prerevolutionary career within the Bolshevik underground from the canonical Short Course on party history. Recognizing the challenge that this editing poses to traditional understandings of the personality cult, this article analyzes Stalin’s excisions from this all-important text and then looks to recent
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Boris Mironov’s New Interpretation of the Russian Revolution Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Michael Ellman
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2022)
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Megan Swift. Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading Under Lenin and Stalin Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Frances Saddington
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2022)
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How Russia Learned to Talk: A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860–1930 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Gabriella Safran
Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2022)
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A Useful Enemy: General Nosovich in the ‘Memory Wars’ Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Andrei Ganin
This article analyses the image of General Anatolii Nosovich in the ‘memory wars’ following Russia’s Civil War. Nosovich turned out to be a White agent in the Red Army who opposed the future Soviet leader, Stalin, in Tsaritsyn in the summer of 1918. Yet the image of Nosovich was widely used in the ideological struggle to exalt Stalin. Even after Stalin’s death, his image continued to be used in debates
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Introduction Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Ian D. Thatcher
(2021). Introduction. Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 34, Special Issue in Honour of J. D. Smele, pp. 157-160.
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Jonathan Smele, Admiral Kolchak and the Civil War Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-12-05 Evan Mawdsley
This article discusses the writings of Dr Jonathan D. Smele, in particular his research on the Civil War (or civil wars) fought on the territory of the former Russian Empire. It does this in the context of the development of western historiography since the 1930s. The author of this article worked in the same field for many years and has known Smele since he was a postgraduate at the University of
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Women Workers in Late Imperial Russian Industry: Hiring Policy and Employer Attitudes on the Railways to 1914 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Anthony J. Heywood
By defining ‘worker’ to include low-paid white-collar as well as blue-collar staff, and taking a broad definition of industry, this article reveals whereas factory managers increasingly hired blue-collar women during roughly 1895–1914, the situation with women's employment in the railway industry was very different. Railway policy was to restrict numbers tightly and prioritise literate women in certain
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British Adventurers and Revolutionary Russia’s War over Bessarabia Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Geoffrey Swain
For the first three months of 1918, Soviet Russia and Romania fought a revolutionary war, and yet the two countries were so recently allies in the struggle against the Central Powers. This article explores the question of British support for Romania from Russia as the Bolsheviks took power and efforts to bring this unnecessary – from an Allied perspective – war to an end. Part adventure story, it has
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Leon Trotsky and Soviet Historiography of the Russian Revolution (1918–1931) Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-10-26 James D. White
The article examines the part played by Leon Trotsky in establishing the principles on which Soviet historical writing on the Russian Revolution was carried on, including the practice of making programmatic versions of events universally obligatory. It also investigates the manner in which the respective remits of the two institutions, Istpart and the Institute of Red Professors (IKP), influenced the
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Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-11-09 John Henry
(2021). Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies. Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 34, Special Issue in Honour of J. D. Smele, pp. 308-311.
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Paul Dukes, 1934–2021 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Murray Frame
(2021). Paul Dukes, 1934–2021. Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 34, Special Issue in Honour of J. D. Smele, pp. 312-314.
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Peter Alexander Thompson. The Quest for Freedom. A Life of Alexander Kerensky, the Russian Unicorn Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-10-12 Ian D. Thatcher
(2021). Peter Alexander Thompson. The Quest for Freedom. A Life of Alexander Kerensky, the Russian Unicorn. Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 34, Special Issue in Honour of J. D. Smele, pp. 304-305.
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Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Lara Green
(2021). Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s. Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 34, Special Issue in Honour of J. D. Smele, pp. 297-299.
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An Intellectual Biography of N. A. Rozhkov: Life in a Bell Jar Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Francis King
(2021). An Intellectual Biography of N. A. Rozhkov: Life in a Bell Jar. Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 34, Special Issue in Honour of J. D. Smele, pp. 299-301.
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Great Game Thinking: The British Foreign Office and Revolutionary Russia Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Heather A. Campbell
While the revolution of October 1917 may have ushered a new regime into Moscow, many within the British government continued to view Russia through the lens of the Great Game. For decades, the Great Game had defined relations between the two countries, and while the Anglo-Russian Convention and the Triple Entente had created the illusion of friendship, this was simply a marriage of convenience. Thus
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The State Versus The People: Revolutionary Justice in Russia’s Civil War, 1917-1922 Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Joseph Nicholson
(2021). The State Versus The People: Revolutionary Justice in Russia’s Civil War, 1917-1922. Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 34, Special Issue in Honour of J. D. Smele, pp. 306-308.
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Slukhi, obrazy, emotsii. Massovye nastroeniia rossiian v gody voiny i revoliutsii (1914–1918) Revolutionary Russia Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Iaroslav Golubinov
(2021). Slukhi, obrazy, emotsii. Massovye nastroeniia rossiian v gody voiny i revoliutsii (1914–1918) Revolutionary Russia: Vol. 34, Special Issue in Honour of J. D. Smele, pp. 301-303.