Circles of the Russian Revolution: Internal and International Consequences of the Year 1917 in Russia

by Lukasz Adamski (Editor), Bartlomiej Gajos (Editor)

Overview

This volume provides the English-speaking reader with little-known perspectives of Central and Eastern European historians on the topic of the Russian Revolution. Whereas research into the Soviet Union’s history has flourished at Western universities, the contribution of Central and Eastern European historians, during the Cold War working in conditions of imposed censorship, to this field of academic research has often been seriously circumscribed. Bringing together perspectives from across Central and Eastern Europe alongside contributions from established scholars from the West, this significant volume casts the year 1917 in a new critical light.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138385122
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/06/2019
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Łukasz Adamski is a historian (PhD) and foreign policy expert, and also an author/editor of academic works devoted to Polish political thought, the history of Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Russian relations. He is currently deputy director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding since 2016 (a public institution, established by an act of the Polish parliament).

Bartłomiej Gajos is a historian, research fellow at the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding and at the Institute of History (Polish Academy of Sciences). He specializes in the history of the Russian revolution and politics of memory.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

1. Introduction

by Łukasz Adamski, Bartłomiej Gajos

2. "A ravaged century": Did the Russian revolution define the 1900s?

by Marek Kornat

3. Violence in the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1914-2: A Survey of Recent Historiography

by Steve S. Smith

4. From utopia to a lawless state: Russian Marxism and Russian revolutions as a totalitarian project

by Adam Bosiacki

5. Loci of political power: The 1917 Russian Revolution from regional perspectives

by Sarah Badcock

6. The Karaim: Political and social activities during the Russian revolution and civil war

by Petr Kaleta

7. The 1917 Russian Revolution and Belarusian National Movement

by Alaksandar Smaliańczuk

8. Great Britain and the 1917 revolution in Ukraine

by Jan Jacek Bruski

9. "Finexit" – The Russian Revolution and Finnish Independence

by Kari Alenius

10. Rebellion: Social conflict in Central and Eastern Europe in 1917–1920

by Włodzimierz Borodziej, Maciej Górny

11. Poland and the influence of the Revolution on the French and Western Political and Military Circles (1917-1921)

by Frederic Dessberg

12. The Consequences of the Russian Revolution on the Polish Question from the Western Point of View

by Isabelle Davion

13. Austria-Hungary and the Russian Revolution

by Lothar Höbelt

14. Great Britain and the Russian Revolution of 1917

by Jewgienij Siergiejew

15. Idle memory? The 1917 Anniversary in Russia

by Boris Kołonicki, Maria Mackiewicz

16. A quiet jubilee: Practices of the Political Commemoration of the Centenary of the 1917 Revolution(s) in Russia

by Olga Malinowa

17. (R)evolutionary memory in Tambov (1991–2017)

by Bartłomiej Gajos

Index