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Informationen zum Autor Matthias Neumann is a senior lecturer in History at the University of East Anglia, UK. Andy Willimott is a senior lecturer in History at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Klappentext This book presents new research findings on different aspects of Russian society, both showing how there was much reform before 1917, and much continuity afterwards. It also show that the new regime established in the 1920s was based on a mixture of new Soviet thinking and ideas developed before 1917 by a variety of non-Bolshevik movements. Zusammenfassung This book presents new research findings on different aspects of Russian society, both showing how there was much reform before 1917, and much continuity afterwards. It also show that the new regime established in the 1920s was based on a mixture of new Soviet thinking and ideas developed before 1917 by a variety of non-Bolshevik movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Crossing the Divide: Tradition, Rupture, and Modernity in Revolutionary Russia Andy Willimott and Matthias Neumann Part I – The New State, The Past, and the People 1. The Problem of Persistence J. Arch Getty 2. How Revolutionary was Revolutionary Justice? Legal Culture in Russia across the Revolutionary Divide Matthew Rendle 3. 'Taking a Leap across the Tsarist Throne': Revolutionizing the Russian Circus Miriam Neirick 4. The Communist Youth League and the Construction of Soviet Obshchestvennost' Matthias Neumann Part II – The People, the Past, and the New State 5. For the People: The Image of Ukrainian Teachers as Public Servants Matthew D. Pauly 6. 'The Woman of the Orient is not the Voiceless Slave Anymore' – the Non-Russian Women of Volga-Ural Region and ‘Women’s Question' Yulia Gradskova 7. Devotion and Revolution: Nursing Values Susan Grant 8. What did Historians do at the Time of the Great Revolution? Vera Kaplan 9. Speaking more than Bolshevik: Humour, Subjectivity, and Crosshatching in Stalin's 1930s Jonathan Waterlow Epilogue: The Russian Tradition? Discourses of Tradition and Modernity Peter Waldron Bibliography ...
