Revolutionary Russia: New Approaches to the Russian Revolution of 1917

by Wade; Rex A.

• ISBN13: 9780415307482
• ISBN10: 0415307481
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134397631
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-05-12
• Publisher: Routledge
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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.

Table of Contents

List of maps	vii
Series editor's preface	viii
List of contributors	xi
Acknowledgments	xiv
Glossary	xvi
Note on spelling and dates	xix
Chronology	xx
Introduction	1	(10)
Rex A. Wade
PART I The varieties of social history	11	(62)
Petrograd in 1917: the view from below	13	(20)
Steve A. Smith
Strikes and revolution in Russia, 1917	33	(13)
Diane P. Koenker
William G. Rosenberg
Crime, police, and mob justice in Petrograd during the Russian revolutions of 1917	46	(27)
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
PART II Language and identity	73	(68)
``Democracy'' in the political consciousness of the February revolution	75	(16)
Boris Ivanovich Kolonitskii
The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its language in the village	91	(28)
Orlando Figes
National revolutions and civil war in Russia	119	(22)
Ronald Grigor Suny
PART III Revisiting the Provisional Government and the failure of the moderates	141	(44)
From rhapsody to threnody: Russia's Provisional Government in Socialist-Revolutionary eyes, February--July 1917	143	(16)
Michael S. Melancon
The rise and fall of Smolensk's moderate socialists: the politics of class and the rhetoric of crisis in 1917	159	(26)
Michael C. Hickey
PART IV Rethinking the Bolshevik seizure of power	185	(82)
Lenin, Trotskii and the arts of insurrection: the Congress of Soviets of the Northern Region, 11--13 October 1917	187	(24)
James D. White
``All power to the soviets'': the Bolsheviks take power	211	(32)
Rex A. Wade
The All-Russian Constituent Assembly and the democratic alternative: two views of the problem	243	(24)
Lev Grigor'evich Protasov
Further reading	267	(3)
Index	270