ABSTRACT

This volume provides the English-speaking reader with little-known perspectives of Central and Eastern European historians on the topic of the Russian Revolution. Whereas research into the Soviet Union’s history has flourished at Western universities, the contribution of Central and Eastern European historians, during the Cold War working in conditions of imposed censorship, to this field of academic research has often been seriously circumscribed. Bringing together perspectives from across Central and Eastern Europe alongside contributions from established scholars from the West, this significant volume casts the year 1917 in a new critical light.

chapter 2|14 pages

“A ravaged century” 1

Did the Russian Revolution define the 20th century?

chapter 3|15 pages

Violence in the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1914–20

A survey of recent historiography

chapter 4|20 pages

From utopia to a lawless state

Russian Marxism and Russian Revolutions as a totalitarian project

chapter 5|22 pages

Loci of political power

The 1917 Russian revolution from regional perspectives

chapter 6|12 pages

The Karaims 1

Political and social activities during the Russian Revolution and civil war

chapter 9|15 pages

“Finexit”

The Russian Revolution and Finnish independence

chapter 10|20 pages

Rebellion

Social conflict in Central and Eastern Europe in 1917–1920

chapter 15|18 pages

Idle memory?

The 1917 anniversary in Russia

chapter 16|22 pages

A quiet jubilee

Practices of the political commemoration of the centenary of the 1917 revolution(s) in Russia 1