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Zusatztext Melissa 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. Informationen zum Autor Melissa K. Stockdale is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, USA. She is the author of Mobilizing the Russian Nation: Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War (2016) and Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880-1918 (1997). She is also the co-editor, along with Murray Frame, Steven Marks and Boris Kolonitskii, of the two-volume Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914-1922 (2014) and Space, Place, and Power in Russia (2010; with Mark Bassin and Christopher Ely).A comprehensive, contextualized Russian Revolution reader centered around major debates in the field. Zusammenfassung Readings on the Russian Revolution 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.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 – ‘Actors, Language, Symbols’, ‘War, Revolution, and the State’, ‘Revolutionary Dreams and Identities’ and ‘Outcomes and Impacts’ – 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. Readings on the Russian Revolution is an essential collection for anyone studying the Russian Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of ContributorsMap: European Russia, 1914Introduction: 100 Years Later, Scholarship on the Russian Revolution after the Cold War, Melissa K. Stockdale Part I. 1917: Languages, Symbols, and Agency Chapter 1. Reflections on the Russian Revolution, Richard PipesExcerpt from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (Knopf, 1995)Chapter 2. Languages of Citizenship, Languages of Class: Workers and the Social Order, Orlando Figes and Boris I. KolonitskiiExcerpt from Interpreting the Russian Revolution (Yale University Press, 1999)Chapter 3.‘Water is Yours, Light is Yours, the Land is Yours, the Wood is Yours’, Sarah BadcockExcerpt from Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History (Cambridge University Press, 2007)Chapter 4.Kerenskii: Popular Brand and Revolutionary Symbol, Boris I. KolonitskiiExcerpt from “Tovarishch Kerenskii”: Antimonarkhicheskaia revoliutsiia I formirovanie kul’ta “vozhdia naroda”[“Comrade Kerenskii”: The Anti-Monarchic Revolution and Formation of the Cult of the “Leader of the People”] (Novoe literaturenoe obozrenie, 2017) Part II. War, Revolution, the State Chapter 5.Rise of the Warlords, Joshua SanbornExcerpt from Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford University Press, 2002)Chapter 6.Psychological Consolidation, Peter HolquistExcerpt from Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914 – 1922 (Harvard University Press, 2002)Chapter 7.Social Disintegration, Igor NarskiiExcerpt from Zhizn’ v katastrofe. Budni naselenie Urala v 1917-1922 gg.(...
