Russian Revolutions of 1917

Kari Aga Myklebost is Professor of History and Barents Chair in Russian Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has published articles and book chapters on various aspects of the historical relations between Norway and Russia throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the northernmost regions of the two states. Her works include studies in diplomatic and economic relations, scientific relations in polar research, and state policy towards northern minority groups. She is currently working on a biography of Olaf Broch, Norway’s first professor of Slavonic Studies and a topical figure in Norwegian-Russian relations during the first half of the twentieth century.Jens Petter Nielsen is Professor of History at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies, and Theology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has published extensively on Soviet history and historiography, as well as on Russian-Norwegian relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lately, he has edited Sblizhenie: Rossiia i Norvegiia v 1814–1917 godakh (Getting closer: Norway and Russia 1814-1917) (Moscow: Ves’ Mir publishing house, 2017).Andrei Rogatchevski is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Among his latest co-edited volumes/thematic clusters are “Filming the Strugatskiis,” Science Fiction Film and Television 8, no. 2 (2015), “Russophone Periodicals in Israel,” Stanford Slavic Studies 47 (2016), “Madness and Literature,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 80 (2017), and “Russian Space: Concepts, Practices, Representations,” Nordlit 39 (2017).

“Taken together, this study of the ‘northern dimension’ of the Russian Revolution provides some interesting insights. On a practical level, scholars who do not command Scandinavian languages will find it useful to read overviews of national historiographic discussions on the topic, and can gain an understanding of how the Russian Revolution affected that region. On a larger interpretative scale, this volume confirms the recent historiographical trend that shifts attention from the grand ideas and major political events of the Russian Revolution to its different regional contexts and particular local circumstances.”—L. G. Novikova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Slavonic and East European Review

• Cover Picture: An Explanatory NoteAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsA Note on TransliterationIntroductionKari Aga Myklebost, Jens Petter Nielsen and Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT, The Arctic University of NorwayPart One: The Northern Impact1. The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the North: Contemporary Approaches and UnderstandingVladislav I. Goldin, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk2. The Russian Revolution in Sweden: Some Genetic and Genealogical PerspectivesKlas-Gøran Karlsson, University of Lund, Sweden3. The Idea of a Liberal Russia: The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Norwegian Slavist Olaf BrochKari Aga Myklebost UiT, The Arctic University of Norway4. Arkhangelsk Province and Northern Norway in 1917–1920: Foreign Property and Capital after the October Revolution of 1917Tatiana Troshina and Ekaterina Kotlova, Northern (Arctic) Federal University,5. Russian Emigration to Norway after the Russian Revolution and Civil WarVictoria Tevlina, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway6. Soviet Diplomacy in Norway and Sweden in the Interwar Years: The Role of Alexandra KollontaiÅsmund Egge, University of Oslo7. Apprentices of the World Revolution: Norwegian Communists at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMZ) and the International Lenin School, 1926–1937Ole Martin Rønning, The Norwegian Labor Movement Archives and Library, Oslo8. The Impact of the October Revolution on the North-Norwegian Labor MovementHallvard Tjelmeland, UiT, The Arctic University of NorwayPart Two: Beyond9. Avant-garde Artists vs. Reindeer Herders: The Kazym Rebellion in Aleksei Fedorchenko's Angels of the Revolution (2014)Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway10. 1917: The Evolution of Russian Émigré Views to the RevolutionCatherine Andreyev, University of Oxford11. Russian Revolutions Exhibited: Behind the ScenesEkaterina Rogatchevskaia, The British Library12. The Revolution of 1917 and the Kremlin's Policy of RemembranceJens Petter Nielsen, UiT. The Arctic University of NorwayIndex of Names