ABSTRACT
Revolution', it has been all but forgotten, was originally an astronomical term, denoting the revolving motion of the planets. The fundamental semantic shift between pre-modern and modern conceptions of 'revolution' was very much linked to the experience of the French and American Revolution. With many early modernity school scholars coming out of Columbia University in the 1990s, overtly crediting the influence Stephen Kotkin as they did so, the emerging fault lines of Soviet historiography in the West took on an institutional dimension. Some urban communes established rather grand sounding 'committees' to monitor and manage certain everyday tasks, including 'housekeeping' and 'hygiene committees'. One way or another, the latest scholarly trends in the field of Russian and Soviet history are bound by a growing desire to eschew binary conceptions and entrenched interpretive frameworks. Exploring various contours of the Russian Revolution in a non-binary, chronologically expansive manner, they seek to further facilitate new insights in the field.
