Utopia''s Discontents - Russian Emigres and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s

Utopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents a taste of their anticipated utopian future.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Abbreviations


• Explanatory Note


• Introduction: From the Café Landolt


• Part I: Making Utopia Concrete


• Chapter 1: The Other Communards


• Chapter 2: Living the Revolution


• Chapter 3: Jewish Workers Meet the Russian Revolution


• Part II: Europe's Russian Moment


• Chapter 4: Entangled Emancipations


• Chapter 5: Émigré Dystopias


• Part III: Revolutionary Repercussions


• Chapter 6: "The Party of Extreme Opposition"


• Chapter 7: Ou-topos?


• Chapter 8: Revolution from Abroad


• Epilogue: Émigré Clans


• Notes


• Select Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Faith Hillis is Associate Professor of Russian History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Children of Rus': Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Nation.

Summary

Utopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents a taste of their anticipated utopian future.

Additional text

This ground-breaking book rethinks the history of Russia's revolutionaries through their lives in exile communities. Place mattered in their story: for inspiration, for encounters, for everyday radical practices. The book is a rich history of ideas—freedom, equality, community, and justice, and socialism—but as everyday practices rather than dreamy abstractions. Not least, this is magisterial research, written in an accessible and compelling manner.

Product details

• Authors: Faith Hillis, Faith (Associate Professor of History Hillis, Hillis Faith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2021
• EAN: 9780190066338
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006633-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Russia, European History, RELIGION / Judaism / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Russian Revolution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Jewish Studies, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1910 to c 1919, Asian History, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions