ABSTRACT
Steven Marks is to be congratulated on his bold attempt to consider the Russian Revolution’s global legacy today, a worthy successor to his other enlightening broad-brush works. The argument has been put forward that ignorance and misunderstanding of the medieval past has served to legitimise the political, economic, and intellectual regimes of modernity, strategically obliterating the planet Earth itself by the location of the meaning and significance of ‘the global’ narrowly in the history of human connections. Some regions in which the demand for food did not exceed supply survived the crisis relatively unscathed: Mughal India, Tokugawa Japan and the Italian states as well as the Americas, Africa and Australia. The centenary of the war and revolution brought people more on Nicholas II, culminating in July 2018,a hundred years since his execution,but also a vast amount of discussion and publication on the Revolution itself.
