Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire

Informationen zum Autor Liliana Riga is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in political science from Columbia University and a PhD in sociology from McGill University. She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and has taught sociology at McGill University, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Edinburgh. Her work has appeared in, among other publications, the American Journal of Sociology, Sociology, Nations and Nationalism and Comparative Studies in Society and History. An article drawn from material from this book appeared in the American Journal of Sociology and was awarded Honorable Mention in 2009 for Best Article in Comparative Historical Sociology by the American Sociological Association. Klappentext This book offers a new interpretation of the Russian Revolution, finding that nearly two-thirds of the Bolsheviks were ethnic minorities. Zusammenfassung This book offers a new interpretation of the leadership of one of the twentieth century's most important events! the Russian Revolution. It offers a collective biography of the Bolsheviks! finding that nearly two-thirds were ethnic minorities from across the multiethnic Russian Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Identity and Empire: 1. Reconceptualizing Bolshevism; 2. Social identities and imperial rule; Part II. Imperial Strategies and Routes to Radicalism in Contexts: 3. The Jewish Bolsheviks; 4. The Polish and Lithuanian Bolsheviks; 5. The Ukranian Bolsheviks; 6. The Latvian Bolsheviks; 7. The South Caucasian Bolsheviks; 8. The Russian Bolsheviks.

Product details

• Authors: Liliana Riga, Liliana (University of Edinburgh) Riga, Riga Liliana
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107014220
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01422-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Russia, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Russian Revolution, Politics & government, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1910 to c 1919, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), 1917–1923 (Russian Revolutionary period), HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General