Russia in World History

Choi Chatterjee is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939 (2002) and the co-author of Russia in the Long Twentieth Century (2016) and The Twentieth Century: A Retrospective (2002). She is also the co-editor of Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present (2015), The Russian Experience: Americans Encountering the Enigma, 1890 to the Present (2012), and The Wider Arc of Revolution (2019). Chatterjee, a passionate advocate of everyday environmentalism, is the co-creator of the project, https://www.livingbackyardtotable.com/.

This book is hugely ambitious. Chatterjee manages to pull off this remarkable intellectual experiment (and the book is novel enough to be called so) with remarkable lucidity. The book is a masterclass in identifying the base elements of thinking about the big questions - nationalism, ethnicity, race relations, class – as they relate to different countries – continents, even – and distilling these intellectual concerns and concepts down to their shared essence.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Tolstoy and Tagore: Principles of Global Thinking2. Imperial Incarcerations: Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar3. The Empire Vanishes as the Nation Remains: Vasily Klyuchevsky and the G. M. Trevelyan4. Alone and Against Systems Thinking: Emma Goldman and M. N. Roy 5. Capitalism and socialism on the farm: Mukhamet Shayakhmetov and Wangari Maathai6. The Cold War Retold: Zainab Al-Ghazali and Urszula Dudziak7. Whom Does a Woman Speak For in a Post-World? Anna Politkovskaya and Arundhati Roy. Interview with Lisa Kirschenbaum.ConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex