{"id":22796,"date":"2020-09-24T21:09:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=22796"},"modified":"2020-09-24T21:10:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T21:10:44","slug":"readings-on-the-russian-revolution-debates-aspirations-outcomes-edited-by-melissa-k-stockdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=22796","title":{"rendered":"Readings on the Russian Revolution: Debates, Aspirations, Outcomes. Edited by Melissa K. Stockdale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Readings on the Russian Revolution<\/em> brings together 15 important post-Cold War writings on the history of the Russian Revolution. It is structured in such a way as to highlight key debates in the field and contrasting methodological approaches to the Revolution in order to help readers better understand the issues and interpretative fault lines that exist in this contested area of history.<br><br>The book opens with an original introduction which provides essential background and vital context for the pieces that follow. The volume is then structured around four parts \u2013 &#8216;Actors, Language, Symbols&#8217;, &#8216;War, Revolution, and the State&#8217;, &#8216;Revolutionary Dreams and Identities&#8217; and &#8216;Outcomes and Impacts&#8217; \u2013 that explore the beginnings, events and outcomes of the Russian Revolution, as well as examinations of central figures, critical topics and major historiographical battlegrounds. Melissa Stockdale also provides translations of two crucial Russian-language works, published here in English for the first time, and includes useful pedagogical features such as a glossary, chronology, and thematic bibliography to further aid study.<br><br><em>Readings on the Russian Revolution<\/em> is an essential collection for anyone studying the Russian Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>List of Contributors<br>Map: European Russia, 1914<br>Introduction: 100 Years Later, Scholarship on the Russian Revolution after the Cold War, Melissa K. Stockdale<br><strong>Part I. 1917: Languages, Symbols, and Agency<\/strong><br>Chapter 1. Reflections on the Russian Revolution, Richard Pipes<br>Excerpt from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (Knopf, 1995)<br>Chapter 2. Languages of Citizenship, Languages of Class: Workers and the Social Order, Orlando Figes and Boris I. Kolonitskii<br>Excerpt from Interpreting the Russian Revolution (Yale University Press, 1999)<br>Chapter 3.&#8217;Water is Yours, Light is Yours, the Land is Yours, the Wood is Yours&#8217;, Sarah Badcock<br>Excerpt from Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (Cambridge University Press, 2007)<br>Chapter 4.Kerenskii: Popular Brand and Revolutionary Symbol, Boris I. Kolonitskii<br>Excerpt from \u201cTovarishch Kerenskii\u201d: Antimonarkhicheskaia revoliutsiia I formirovanie kul&#8217;ta \u201cvozhdia naroda\u201d[\u201cComrade Kerenskii\u201d: The Anti-Monarchic Revolution and Formation of the Cult of the \u201cLeader of the People\u201d] (Novoe literaturenoe obozrenie, 2017)<br><strong>Part II. War, Revolution, the State<\/strong><br>Chapter 5.Rise of the Warlords, Joshua Sanborn<br>Excerpt from Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford University Press, 2002)<br>Chapter 6.Psychological Consolidation, Peter Holquist<br>Excerpt from Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia&#8217;s Continuum of Crisis, 1914 \u2013 1922 (Harvard University Press, 2002)<br>Chapter 7.Social Disintegration, Igor Narskii<br>Excerpt from Zhizn&#8217; v katastrofe. Budni naselenie Urala v 1917-1922 gg.(ROSSPEN, 2001) [Life in Catastrophe: The Daily Experience of the Population of the Urals, 1917-1922]<br>Chapter 8. Nationalizing the Revolution, Adeeb Khalid<br>Excerpt from Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Cornell University Press, 2015)<br><strong>Part III. Revolutionary Dreams and Identities<\/strong><br>Chapter 9.Bolshevik Ritual Buildings in the 1920s, Richard Stites<br>Excerpt from Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1991)<br>Chapter 10. Connecting, Emma Widdis<br>Excerpt from Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War (Yale University Press, 2003)<br>Chapter 11. Daily Life and Gender Transformation, Elizabeth A. Wood<br>Excerpt from The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana University Press, 1997)<br>Chapter 12. Forging the Revolutionary Self, Jochen Hellbeck<br>Excerpt from Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Harvard University Press, 2006)<br><strong>Part IV. Outcomes and Impacts<\/strong><br>Chapter 13. Ending the Revolution, Sheila Fitzpatrick<br>Excerpt from The Russian Revolution, 3rd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2008)<br>Chapter 14. Telling October, Frederick C. Corney<br>Excerpt from Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Russian Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2008)<br>Chapter 15. Communism and the New Forms of Dictatorship, Steven G. Marks<br>Excerpt from How Russia Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2003)<br>Chronology of the Revolutionary Era<br>Glossary<br>Further Reading<br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis cleverly chosen selection of recent scholarship on the Russian Revolution will provide college students with a comprehensive sense of the different perspectives on the Revolution that have emerged since the opening of the Soviet archives. It provides an excellent introduction to innovative research on topics such as the non-Russian minorities, war and violence, language and culture.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 <strong>Stephen Smith<\/strong>, Professor of History, University of Oxford, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA hundred years after Red October, scholars continue to debate the meaning of those revolutionary events. Melissa Stockdale has assembled here some of the last thirty years&#8217; most dynamic work on the subject-a diverse collection of key articles from across the political spectrum.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 <strong>David Brandenberger<\/strong>, Professor of History and Global Studies, University of Richmond, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMelissa Stockdale has performed an enormous service for students and teachers of the Russian Revolution. These selected readings will orient students through the key themes and interpretative controversies that have characterized scholarship on the Revolution since the collapse of the USSR. Framed by a clear and insightful introduction, this will quickly become a required text.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 <strong>James Ryan<\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Cardiff University, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Melissa K. Stockdale<\/strong> is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, USA. She is the author of <em>Mobilizing the Russian Nation: Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War <\/em>(2016) and <em>Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880-1918<\/em> (1997). She is also the co-editor, along with Murray Frame, Steven Marks and Boris Kolonitskii, of the two-volume <em>Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-1922<\/em> (2014) and <em>Space, Place, and Power in Russia <\/em>(2010; with Mark Bassin and Christopher Ely).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 03-09-2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edition: 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extent: 288<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/readings-on-the-russian-revolution-9781350037427\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/readings-on-the-russian-revolution-9781350037427\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/The-Russian-Revolution.jpg?fit=420%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52516,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52516","url_meta":{"origin":22796,"position":0},"title":"Marko Grde\u0161i\u0107, Mislav \u017ditko, \u201eSocialist Economics in Yugoslavia: A Critical History\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"17. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s. 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