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. With a particular emphasis on historiography, this will be essential reading for an understanding of the driving forces of the revolution, of the role of individuals such as Lenin and Trotsky as well as the broader social and political landscape, and the impact the revolution had on the wider world.
Author(s): Ian D. Thatcher
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 232
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 7
1 Introduction......Page 10
2 Terror in 1905......Page 29
3 Mariya Spiridonova: Russian Martyr and British Heroine? The Portrayal of a Russian Female Terrorist in the British Press......Page 45
4 The First World War and the End of Tsarism......Page 64
5 The October Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, and the End of the Russian Revolution......Page 81
6 Trotsky and the Russian Civil War......Page 95
7 A Bolshevik in Brixton Prison: Fedor Raskol’nikov and the Origins of Anglo-Soviet Relations......Page 114
8 Retrieving the Historical Lenin......Page 139
9 In Lenin’s Shadow: Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Bolshevik Revolution......Page 157
10 Soviet ‘Foreign Policy’ and the Versailles-Washington System......Page 175
11 From ‘State of the Art’ to ‘State Art’: The Rise of Socialist Realism at the Tretyakov Gallery......Page 193
12 Politics Projected into the Past: What Precipitated the 1936 Campaign Against M.N. Pokrovsky?......Page 211
D......Page 224
K......Page 225
O......Page 226
S......Page 227
Z......Page 228
