Readings on the Russian Revolution

Melissa K. Stockdale is Brian and Sandra O'Brien Presidential 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), along with Mark Bassin and Christopher Ely.

The concentration on recent studies means the volume remains distinct from existing compilations ... Stockdale’s book, then, could usefully work in tandem with these earlier compilations for readers interested in the longer historiography of the revolution. In that regard, the volume’s essays are welcome introductions to the most influential recent analyses and debates for anyone eager to learn or teach about the Russian Revolution.

• List of ContributorsMap: European Russia, 1914Introduction: 100 Years Later, Scholarship on the Russian Revolution after the Cold War, Melissa K. StockdalePart I. 1917: Languages, Symbols, and AgencyChapter 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 StateChapter 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.(ROSSPEN, 2001) [Life in Catastrophe: The Daily Experience of the Population of the Urals, 1917-1922] Chapter 8. Nationalizing the Revolution, Adeeb KhalidExcerpt from Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR (Cornell University Press, 2015)Part III. Revolutionary Dreams and IdentitiesChapter 9.Bolshevik Ritual Buildings in the 1920s, Richard StitesExcerpt from Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture (Indiana University Press, 1991)Chapter 10. Connecting, Emma Widdis Excerpt from Visions of a New Land: Soviet Film from the Revolution to the Second World War (Yale University Press, 2003)Chapter 11. Daily Life and Gender Transformation, Elizabeth A. WoodExcerpt from The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana University Press, 1997)Chapter 12. Forging the Revolutionary Self, Jochen HellbeckExcerpt from Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin (Harvard University Press, 2006)Part IV. Outcomes and ImpactsChapter 13. Ending the Revolution, Sheila FitzpatrickExcerpt from The Russian Revolution, 3rd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2008)Chapter 14. Telling October, Frederick C. CorneyExcerpt from Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Russian Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2008)Chapter 15. Communism and the New Forms of Dictatorship, Steven G. MarksExcerpt from How Russia Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press, 2003)Chronology of the Revolutionary EraGlossaryFurther ReadingIndex