The Russian Revolution of 1917 - memory and legacy
The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis,
2024
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| Schlagworte: | Revolutions |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (323 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in Soviet times. I Introduction: Interpreting the Russian Revolution of 1917 -- 1 Introduction-Reflections on the Russian Revolution -- 2 The Great Russian Revolution, 1917-1922, and Problems of Historical Memory -- II Selected Western Revisionist Interpretations and Their Critics -- 3 How to End the Revolution: A Problem for Revolutionaries, Their Successors and Historians -- 4 More Lessons of October -- 5 Soviet History Framework for Assessing the Russian Revolution -- 6 The Politics of National History: Russia's Ruling Elite and the Centenary of 1917 -- III The Major Soviet-era and Post-Soviet Russian Perspectives -- 7 From a National Celebration to an Inconvenient Past: Revolution of 1917 in Commemorative Practices and Policies and Annual Celebrations (1918-2017) -- 8 Post-Soviet Writing About the October Revolution -- 9 Culture in Revolution-Revolution in Culture -- IV New Approaches: "Leap Not the Landing" -- 10 The Revolution We Have Lost: 1917 as Future Possibility -- 11 Living Politics: The Kollektiv-Model and the Bolshevik Revolution -- 12 Psychological and Emotional Experience in the Russian Revolution -- 13 Gender Images in the Russian Revolution: Backward Women and Forward Men in Iconic Perspective, 1919-1923 -- Strategic Space During the Revolution -- 14 Building Soviet Democracy, Breeding Communist Dictatorship: Rise of the Party-State Apparatus, 1917-1923 -- 15 Railroads and Strikes in Russia, 1894-1904: Revolution in Times of Railroad Building -- Continuum of Crisis -- 16 Governing Revolution in Russia in 1917 and in the 1990s: Comparative Political Economy -- Impact Assessment -- 17 Two Octobers -- 18 Hitler, Stalin, or Roosevelt? Which Faces of the 1930s Will We See in the 2020s? -- Conclusion -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (323 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780429626791 0429626797 9780367146917 0367146916 |