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Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide book cover

1st Edition

Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide

Edited By Matthias Neumann, Andy Willimott Copyright 2018
277 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

277 Pages
by Routledge
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 has often been presented as a complete break with the past, with everything which had gone before swept away, and all aspects of politics, economy, and society reformed and made new. Recently, however, historians have increasingly come to question this view, discovering that Tsarist Russia was much more entangled in the processes of modernisation, and that the new... Read more

Crossing the Divide: Tradition, Rupture, and Modernity in Revolutionary Russia



Andy Willimott and Matthias Neumann



Part I – The New State, The Past, and the People





1. The Problem of Persistence



J. Arch Getty





2. How Revolutionary was Revolutionary Justice? Legal Culture in Russia across the Revolutionary Divide



Matthew Rendle





3. 'Taking a Leap across the Tsarist Throne': Revolutionizing the Russian Circus



Miriam Neirick





4. The Communist Youth League and the Construction of Soviet Obshchestvennost'



Matthias Neumann





Part II – The People, the Past, and the New State





5. For the People: The Image of Ukrainian Teachers as Public Servants



Matthew D. Pauly





6. 'The Woman of the Orient is not the Voiceless Slave Anymore' – the Non-Russian Women of Volga-Ural Region and ‘Women’s Question'



Yulia Gradskova





7. Devotion and Revolution: Nursing Values



Susan Grant





8. What did Historians do at the Time of the Great Revolution?



Vera Kaplan





9. Speaking more than Bolshevik: Humour, Subjectivity, and Crosshatching in Stalin's 1930s



Jonathan Waterlow





Epilogue: The Russian Tradition? Discourses of Tradition and Modernity



Peter Waldron



Bibliography



 

Biography

Matthias Neumann is a senior lecturer in History at the University of East Anglia, UK.





Andy Willimott is a lecturer in History at the University of Reading, UK.

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