{"id":5306,"date":"2017-07-17T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T10:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2017-07-17T20:39:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T20:39:05","slug":"s-a-smith-russia-in-revolution-an-empire-in-crisis-1890-to-1928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=5306","title":{"rendered":"S. A. Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Objavljena je 2017. godine knjiga povjesni\u010dara Stephena A. Smitha (University of Oxford) \u201cRussia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928\u201d, koji \u0107e na skupu &#8220;Socijalizam na klupi&#8221; u Puli (28.IX.2017) odr\u017eati plenarno predavanje &#8220;The Russian Revolution: a Hundred Years On&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia in Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>S. A. Smith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The story of the Russian Revolution &#8211; a century on from 1917<br \/>\n\u2022 An epochal event that transformed the Russian empire and profoundly affected the course of world history in the twentieth century<br \/>\n\u2022 A panoramic account from the last years of the nineteenth century, through revolution and civil war, to the brutal collectivization and industrialization of the late 1920s<br \/>\n\u2022 Reflects on the larger significance of 1917 for the history of the twentieth century &#8211; and what it might mean for us today<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Bolshevik regime, to the end of the 1920s, when Stalin simultaneously unleashed violent collectivization of agriculture and crash industrialization upon Russian society.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on recent archivally-based scholarship, Russia in Revolution pays particular attention to the varying impact of the Revolution on the various groups that made up society: peasants, workers, non-Russian nationalities, the army, women and the family, young people, and the Church.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, it provides a fresh way into the big, perennial questions about the Revolution and its consequences: why did the attempt by the tsarist government to implement political reform after the 1905 Revolution fail; why did the First World War bring about the collapse of the tsarist system; why did the attempt to create a democratic system after the February Revolution of 1917 not get off the ground; why did the Bolsheviks succeed in seizing and holding on to power; why did they come out victorious from a punishing civil war; why did the New Economic Policy they introduced in 1921 fail; and why did Stalin come out on top in the power struggle inside the Bolshevik party after Lenin&#8217;s death in 1924.<\/p>\n<p>A final chapter then reflects on the larger significance of 1917 for the history of the twentieth century &#8211; and, for all its terrible flaws, what the promise of the Revolution might mean for us today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Introduction<br \/>\n1: Roots of Revolution, 1880s- 1905<br \/>\n2: From Reform to War, 1906-17<br \/>\n3: From February to October 1917<br \/>\n4: Civil War and the Foundation of Bolshevik Power<br \/>\n5: War Communism and Popular Revolt<br \/>\n6: NEP: Economy and Society<br \/>\n7: NEP: Society and Culture<br \/>\nEpilogue<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>S. A. Smith, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Professor of History, University of Oxford<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Smith is a historian of modern Russia and China, who was a graduate student at both Moscow State University and at Peking University. He is the author of many books and articles on the Russian and Chinese revolutions, including Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories, 1917-18 (CUP, 1983) and Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative History (CUP, 2008), and is editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism (OUP, 2014). He taught for many years at the University of Essex, where he is an emeritus professor, and then at the European University Institute in Florence, before being elected to a senior research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/russia-in-revolution-9780198734826?cc=hr&amp;lang=en&amp;#\">https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/russia-in-revolution-9780198734826?cc=hr&amp;lang=en&amp;#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. ME\u0110UNARODNI ZNANSTVENI SKUP SOCIJALIZAM NA KLUPI<\/strong><br \/>\nKomunisti i komunisti\u010dke partije: politike, akcije, debate<br \/>\nPULA, 28-30. RUJNA 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SOCIALISM ON THE BENCH<\/strong><br \/>\nCommunists and Communist Parties: Policies, Actions, Debates<br \/>\nPULA, SEPTEMBER 28-30, 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u010cETVRTAK \/ THURSDAY, 28.9.2017.<\/strong><br \/>\nFilozofski fakultet, Mateti\u0107a Ronjgova 1 \/ Faculty of Humanities, Mateti\u0107a Ronjgova 1<\/p>\n<p>Sve\u010dana dvorana Tone Peru\u0161ko, 2. kat \/ Aula magna Tone Peru\u0161ko, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>13.00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PLENARNO PREDAVANJE \/ KEYNOTE LECTURE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen A. Smith, University of Oxford:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Russian Revolution: a Hundred Years On<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unipu.hr\/index.php?id=klupa2017\">http:\/\/www.unipu.hr\/index.php?id=klupa2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Treskanica<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Status, ulog, eksplanacija i perspektiva ili \u00bbDugo dvadeseto stolje\u0107e\u00ab: uz osvrt Sheile Fitzpatrick na najnovije priloge iz sfere Oktobarike<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>09\/05\/2017 Oktobarika<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>U sedmom broju ovogodi\u0161njeg LRB-a Sheila Fitzpatrick recenzirala je pet novih naslova posve\u0107enih Ruskoj revoluciji (\u201cWhat\u2019s Left?\u201d, <em>London Review of Books<\/em>, 7\/39 [2017]: 13-15). Recenzirane su knjige Chinae Mi\u00e9villea (<em>October: The Story of the Russian Revolution<\/em>), Marka D. Steinberga (<em>The Russian Revolution 1905-1921<\/em>), <strong>S. A. Smitha<\/strong> (<em>Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928<\/em>) i Seana McMeekina (<em>The Russian Revolution: A New History<\/em>), uz zbornik radova <em>Historically Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian Revolution<\/em>, urednika Tonyja Brentona.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Na slu\u010daju S. A. Smitha, kojemu je naklonjena, ali na o\u0161tar na\u010din, Fitzpatrick otvara dva pitanja: (1) \u010demu uop\u0107e (bez novih interpretativnih ili istra\u017eiva\u010dkih prinosa i\/ili nadopuna) reizdanja svih tih naslova o Ruskoj revoluciji (i njezina knjiga izlazi ponovno, uz novi predgovor) te (2) nije li Kineska revolucija ona prava (\u201cvelika\u201d) revolucija XX. stolje\u0107a (teza koju kao kinesko-sovjetski komparatist plasira Smith). Ta je teza, uza svu slavu Kineske revolucije, ipak neuvjerljiva. Kao \u0161to je neuvjerljiva autori\u010dina dijagnoza da Ruska revolucija nikad nije imala manjeg odjeka. U devedesetima svakako je. A u kontekstu Fukuyame i Hobsbawma, koje autorica nekako poku\u0161ava pozicionirati za pozadinski tekst svoga teksta, mo\u017eda bismo mogli promisliti i o redefiniranju sintagme \u201ckratkog\u201d u \u201cdugo XX. stolje\u0107e\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oktobarika.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/09\/status-ulog-eksplanacija-i-perspektiva-uz-osvrt-sheile-fitzpatrick-na-najnovije-priloge-iz-sfere-oktobarike\/\">Status, ulog, eksplanacija i perspektiva ili \u00bbDugo dvadeseto stolje\u0107e\u00ab: uz osvrt Sheile Fitzpatrick na najnovije priloge iz sfere&nbsp;Oktobarike<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5306","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\/2017\/07\/9780198734826.jpg?fit=364%2C550&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54174,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54174","url_meta":{"origin":5306,"position":0},"title":"Yanni Kotsonis, &#8220;The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"18. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. 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