1st Edition
The Russian Revolution of 1917 - Memory and Legacy
List of Contributors viii
List of Figures xv
List of Tables xvii
Preface xviii
CAROL S. LEONARD AND DANIEL ORLOVSKY
I
Introduction: Interpreting the Russian Revolution of 1917 1
1 Introduction—Reflections on the Russian Revolution 3
DANIEL ORLOVSKY
2 The Great Russian Revolution, 1917–1922, and Problems of Historical Memory 12
JUREJ PETROV
II
Selected Western Revisionist Interpretations and Their Critics 17
3 How to End the Revolution: A Problem for Revolutionaries, Their Successors and Historians 19
SHEILA FITZPATRICK
4 More Lessons of October 29
RONALD GRIGOR SUNY
5 Soviet History Framework for Assessing the Russian Revolution 36
ROBERT SERVICE
6 The Politics of National History: Russia’s Ruling Elite and the Centenary of 1917 51
JAMES RYAN
III
The Major Soviet-era and Post-Soviet Russian Perspectives 73
7 From a National Celebration to an Inconvenient Past: Revolution of 1917 in Commemorative Practices and Policies and Annual Celebrations (1918–2017) 75
VITALIY TIKHONOV
8 Post-Soviet Writing About the October Revolution 97
VLADIMIR P. BULDAKOV
9 Culture in Revolution—Revolution in Culture 109
TATIANA A. FILIPPOVA
IV
New Approaches: “Leap Not the Landing” 125
10 The Revolution We Have Lost: 1917 as Future Possibility 127
MARK D. STEINBERG
11 Living Politics: The Kollektiv-Model and the Bolshevik Revolution 139
ANDY WILLIMOTT
12 Psychological and Emotional Experience in the Russian Revolution 158
VLADISLAV B. AKSENOV
13 Gender Images in the Russian Revolution: Backward Women and Forward Men in Iconic Perspective, 1919–1923 176
ELIZABETH A. WOOD
Strategic Space During the Revolution 191
14 Building Soviet Democracy, Breeding Communist Dictatorship: Rise of the Party-State Apparatus, 1917–1923 193
LARA DOUDS
15 Railroads and Strikes in Russia, 1894–1904: Revolution in Times of Railroad Building 212
CAROL S. LEONARD, ZAFAR NAZAROV, LEONID BORODKIN, ROMAN B. KONCHAKOV AND MARIA KARPENKO
Continuum of Crisis 245
16 Governing Revolution in Russia in 1917 and in the 1990s: Comparative Political Economy 247
VLADIMIR MAU AND CAROL S. LEONARD
Impact Assessment 265
17 Two Octobers 267
ROBERT A. ROSENSTONE
18 Hitler, Stalin, or Roosevelt? Which Faces of the 1930s Will We See in the 2020s? 283
JACK A. GOLDSTONE
Conclusion 295
CAROL S. LEONARD AND DANIEL ORLOVSKY
Index 298
Biography
Carol S. Leonard is Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK, and the former Director of the Center for Russian Studies, International Laboratory: Russia’s Historical Legacies and Regional Development at the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow.
Daniel Orlovsky is Emeritus Professor of History at Southern Methodist University.
Jurej Petrov is Director of the Institute of Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
