Revolutionary Russia : new approaches / edited by Rex A. Wade.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wade, Rex A.

Series:

Rewriting histories.

Rewriting histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes. Together, the chapters in this volume form a coherent representation of both the events and the theories and debates that relate to them.

Contents:

Front Cover; Revolutionary Russia; Copyright Page; Contents; List of maps; Series editor's preface; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Note on spelling and dates; Chronology; Introduction: Rex A. Wade; Part I: The varieties of social history; 1. Petrograd in 1917: the view from below: Steve A.Smith; 2. Strikes and revolution in Russia, 1917: Diane P. Koenker and William G. Rosenberg; 3. Crime, police, and mob justice in Petrograd during the Russian revolutions of 1917: Tsuyoshi Hasegawa; Part II:Language and identity

4. "Democracy" in the political consciousness of the February revolution: Boris Ivanovich Kolonitskii5. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its language in the village: Orlando Figes; 6. National revolutions and civil war in Russia: Ronald Grigor Suny; Part III: Revisiting the Provisional Government and the failure of themoderates; 7. From rhapsody to threnody: Russia's Provisional Government in Socialist-Revolutionary eyes, February-July 1917: Michael S. Melancon; 8.The rise and fall of Smolensk's moderate socialists: the politics of class and the rhetoric of crisis in 1917: Michael C. Hickey

Part IV: Rethinking the Bolshevik seizure of power9.Lenin, Trotskii and the arts of insurrection: the Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, 11-13 October 1917: James D. White; 10. "All power to the soviets": the Bolsheviks take power: Rex A. Wade; 11. The All-Russian Constituent Assembly and the democratic alternative: two views of the problem: Lev Grigor'evichProtasov; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-269) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-02530-1

1-134-39763-1

0-415-30748-1

0-203-63571-X

1-134-39764-X

1-283-96373-6

9780203635711

OCLC:

475909642