The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution

Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia''s revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first reference point for anyone wishing to learn more about the changes which took place in Russia between 1917 and 1921 and subsequently the 20th century. Split into six sections covering political crises, politicians and parties, social groups, identities, regions and peoples, and civil war, the volume covers the collapse of Tsarism and the February Revolution, the emergence of the Provisional Government, and major historical figures such as Lenin, Kerensky and the Socialist Revolutionary leader Viktor Chernov. It also explores the events surrounding the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the first year of Soviet Government until the Bolshevik dictatorship was established, and the impact on Russia of the subsequent civil war. The focus is broader than these issues of high politics, however, since this handbook also considers events in the provinces as well as revolutionary Petrograd, and examines the social impact of the revolution in terms of class, gender, age and culture.>

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Geoffrey Swain is Alec Nove Professor of Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. Charlotte Alston is Professor in History at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of Russia's Greatest Enemy? Harold Williams and the Russian Revolutions (2007), Piip, Meierovics, Voldermaras: The Baltic States Makers of the Modern World (2010) and Tolstoy and his Disciples: The History of a Radical International Movement (2013).Michael C. Hickey is Professor of History at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the editor of Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution (2011), a 2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and Winner of the 2012 ALA RUSA Outstanding Reference Work Award.

Michael C. Hickey, PhD, is professor of history at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in Bloomsburg, PA.

Boris Kolonitskii is Professor of History at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia and Head Research Fellow at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. He has been a Visiting Professor at University of Illinois, Princeton University and Yale University (all USA), as well as the universities of Tartu (Estonia), Helsinki (Finland) and Tübingen (Germany). He is the co-author, along with Orlando Figes, of Interpreting the Russian Revolution (1999).Franziska Schedewie is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Jena, Germany. She is a co-editor of The Russian Revolution Of 1905 In Transcultural Perspective Identities, Peripheries, And The Flow Of Ideas (2013).

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Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia's revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first reference point for anyone wishing to learn more about the changes which took place in Russia between 1917 and 1921 and subsequently the 20th century. Split into six sections covering political crises, politicians and parties, social groups, identities, regions and peoples, and civil war, the volume covers the collapse of Tsarism and the February Revolution, the emergence of the Provisional Government, and major historical figures such as Lenin, Kerensky and the Socialist Revolutionary leader Viktor Chernov. It also explores the events surrounding the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the first year of Soviet Government until the Bolshevik dictatorship was established, and the impact on Russia of the subsequent civil war. The focus is broader than these issues of high politics, however, since this handbook also considers events in the provinces as well as revolutionary Petrograd, and examines the social impact of the revolution in terms of class, gender, age and culture.