Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia

IAN D. THATCHER is Reader in Modern European History at Brunel University, UK. He is the author of numerous academic articles and books, including most recently Trotsky (2003) and Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects (2005).

'The volume as a whole provides a much welcome revisionist approach to our understanding of revolutionary movements and events in Russia, as well as their broader international context, mainly focusing on the period from 1905 through to the Civil War, but also extending into the Stalin period.' - Melanie Ilic, Europe-Asia Studies 'Ian Thatcher has assembled an impressive collection of highly readable essays in honour of James White.' - Harold Shukman, SEER, The Slavonic and East European Review

• Introduction; I.D.Thatcher Terror in 1905; J.Keep Mariya Spiridonova: Russian Martyr and British Heroine? The Portrayal of a Russian Female Terrorist in the British Press; J.McDermid The First World War and the End of Tsarism; D.Saunders The October Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, and the End of the Russian Revolution; R.A.Wade Trotsky and the Russian Civil War; G.Swain A Bolshevik in Brixton Prison: Fedor Raskol'nikov and the Origins of Anglo-Soviet Relations; J.D.Smele Retrieving the Historical Lenin; C.Read In Lenin's Shadow: Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Bolshevik Revolution; J.McDermid & A.Hillyar Soviet 'Foreign Policy' and the Versailles-Washington System; P.Dukes From 'State of the Art' to 'State Art': The Rise of Socialist Realism at the Tretyakov Gallery; M.H.Byers Politics Projected into the Past: What Precipitated the 1936 Campaign Against M. N. Pokrovsky?; D.Brandenberger