Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932
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Köp båda 2 för 576 krThe Russian Revolution of 1917 has often been presented as a complete break with the past, with everything which had gone before swept away, and all aspects of politics, economy, and society reformed and made new. Recently, however, historians hav...
ric Aunoble, University of Geneva, The International Newsletter of Communist Studies With this book, Andy Willimott enters the small circle of historians devoted to the communal movement in the early USSR.
Mark B. Smith, Slavonic and East European Review original and engaging ... Willimott has got close to his subjects and tells their stories with enthusiasm. He acknowledges that they are only a small part of the history of the Revolution, but he is not troubled by whether their experience is representative, precisely because they offer new stories told from unusual angles that illuminate wider themes. There is much for students and scholars to enjoy and learn from in this important book.
English Historical Review By presenting communards as driven by both revolutionary hope and belief that an interventionist state could create a harmonious, rational, modern world, and by indicating how their ideas for daily life, cultural enlightenment and building the new socialist person persisted into the 1930s, Willimott revises the understanding that their initiatives constituted a fleeting manifestation of utopian visions that was extinguished by rising state socialist construction. That this older interpretation largely held ground since 1989 (when Richard Stites offered the first significant scholarly treatment of urban communes in his Revolutionary Dreams) speaks to the path-breaking nature of this book.
Edward Cohen, Journal of Modern History Willimott's prose, which is consistently inviting, paints a vivid portrait of daily life in urban communes
Comments by the jury of the BASEES Alexander Nove Prize 2016 Andy Willimott takes an almost entirely unknown topic and makes it his own, turning what could have been a traditional 'thesis book' into something of real lasting value. This fine, energetic piece of scholarship offers a genuinely new perspective on the revolutionary developments of the 1920s by making a compelling case for the importance of the much neglected urban commune movement ... Willimott's impressive command of his sources enables him to expand the scope of his conclusions beyond his field of specialism and to make a major contribution to revitalising the study of early Soviet Russia. He is a worthy winner of this year's Nove Prize.
Geoffrey Hosking, University College, London Dr Willimott's book provides a lively insight into the attempts of some young people in early Soviet Russia to live out in practice the proclaimed ideals of the new Communist regime. He describes vividly the hopes inspiring their experiments in collective living, their successes, frustrations and failures, and how ultimately those experiments were integrated into the emerging totalitarian structure of the Stalinist regime.
Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University Living the Revolution is about those youthful citizens of the new Soviet republic -- men and women -- who sought to remake their lives by throwing in their lot w...
Andy Willimott is Lecturer in Modern Russian/Soviet History at the University of Reading. A graduate of the School of History at UEA, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies between 2012 and 2015, he currently lives in London and is a frequent visitor to Moscow and St. Petersburg.