The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 (Oxford Histories)
by Mark D. Steinberg
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This is a new history of Russia's revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense of history as it unfolded in their own lives and as they took part in making history themselves. The major events, trends, and explanations, reaching from Bloody Sunday in 1905 to the final shots of the civil war in 1921, are viewed through the doubled perspective of the professional historian looking backward and the contemporary journalist reporting and interpreting history as it happened. show more The volume then turns toward particular places and people: city streets, peasant villages, the margins of empire (Central Asia, Ukraine, the Jewish Pale), women and men, workers and intellectuals, artists and activists, utopian visionaries, and discontents of all kinds. We spend time with the famous (Vladimir Lenin, Lev Trotsky, Alexandra Kollontai, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel) and with those whose names we don't even know. Key themes include difference and inequality (social, economic, gendered, ethnic), power and resistance, violence, and ideas about justice and freedom. show lessTags
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Indeed a book with "something fresh to say" about this decades plus span of Russian upheaval. Using contemporary journalists reporting in an opening salvo, followed by the insights from people on the margins of the empire (the Pale of settlement, Central Asia) Steinberg adds an insightful new angle of study into this complicated time. The focus on a cast of characters at once rather well known (Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel, Lev Trotsky) and almost wholly unfamiliar (Alexandra Kollontai, Volodymyr Vynnycheko, Matmud Khoja Behbudi) lend this tome a depth and freshness that almost begs to be revisited. I suspect this offering is all but unique in the English language. Ranks with the works of Jonathan Smele. A Truly a welcome addition show more to any library of Revolutionary history. show less
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Mark D. Steinberg is associate professor of history and director of the Russian and East European Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 947.084 — History & geography History of Europe Eastern European Counties and Russia Russian & Slavic History by Period 1855- 1917-1953 ; Communist period
- LCC
- DK263 .S83 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics History House of Romanov, 1613-1917
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- Languages
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