The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives

by Heywood; Anthony J.

• ISBN13: 9780415355681
• ISBN10: 0415355680
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

2005 marks the centenary of Russia's first revolution, the Revolution of 1905. Hundreds were killed and injured, when on the 9th January Bloody Sunday Cossacks fired upon workers and their families who were marching peacefully to deliver a petition to Tsar Nicholas II in St Petersburg. This set off a wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies across the Russian Empire. Tsarism survived, but only after having made significant political and social concessions, and allowing the Russian people a dress rehearsal in Lenin's words, for the revolutions of 1917. 1905 proved a crucial turning point in the demise of the autocracy and the rise of a revolutionary socialism that would shape Russia, Europe and the international system for the rest of the twentieth century. The centenary of the Revolution has prompted scholars to review and reassess our understanding of 1905. Recent opportunities to access archives throughout the former Soviet Union are yielding new provincialperspectives, as well as fresh insights into the roles of national and religious minorities and the parts played by individuals, social groups, political parties and institutions. The Russian Revolution of 1905 brings together some of the best of this new research and reassessment. The volume includes thirteen chapters written by leading historians from around the world, together with an introduction from Abraham Ascher.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Note on style	xi
1 Introduction	1	(12)
ABRAHAM ASCHER
2 Psychohistorical approaches to 1905 radicalism	13	(21)
ANNA GEIFMAN
3 1905: the view from the provinces	34	(21)
BERYL WILLIAMS
4 The 1905 Revolution in Russia's Baltic provinces	55	(24)
JAMES D. WHITE
5 Finland in 1905: the political and social history of the revolution	79	(15)
ANTTI KUJALA
6 Revolution and revolt in the Manchurian armies, as perceived by a future leader of the White movement	94	(25)
OLEG AIRAPETOV
7 Retrospectively revolting: Kazan Tatar 'conspiracies' during the 1905 Revolution	119	(18)
CHRISTIAN NOACK
8 Peasant protest and peasant violence in 1905: Voronezh province, Ostrogozhskii uezd	137	(19)
FRANZISKA SCHEDEWIE
9 Jews and revolution in Kharkiv: how one Ukrainian city escaped a pogrom in 1905	156	(21)
MICHAEL F. HAMM
10 Socialists, liberals and the Union of Unions in Kyiv during the 1905 Revolution: an engineer's perspective	177	(19)
ANTHONY HEYWOOD
11 Kadet domination of the First Duma and its limits	196	(22)
SHMUEL GALAI
12 Lenin and the 1905 Revolution	218	(23)
CHRISTOPHER READ
13 Leon Trotsky and 1905	241	(19)
IAN D. THATCHER
14 The 1905 Revolution on Tyneside	260	(19)
DAVID SAUNDERS
Index	279