Title: Reinterpreting revolutionary Russia : essays in honour of James D. White /
Authors: White, James D., 1941-; Thatcher, Ian D.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Soviet Union History; Soviet Union History; Russia History
Abstract: "Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia is a collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. Each chapter reinterprets key issues and debates, including political, social, cultural and international aspects of the Russian revolution stretching from the late imperial period to the early Soviet state. Specific issues such as that of terrorism in the Russian liberation movement are discussed, as well as studies of the broader historiography, discussing why the Revolution happened and when it ended. Importantly, there are reassessments of the role of key individuals, rescuing Lenin, Trotsky and Krupskaya from mythology.
Contents: Terror in 1905 / John Keep -- Mariya Spiridonova: Russian martyr and British heroine? The Portrayal of a Russian female terrorist in the British press / Jane McDermid -- The first World War and the end of Tsarism / David Saunders -- The October revolution, the constituent assembly, and the end of the Russian revolution / Rex A. Wade -- Trotsky and the Russian Civil War / Geoffrey Swain -- A Bolshevik in Brixton prison: Fedor Raskol'nikov and the origins of Anglo-Soviet relations / Jonathan D. Smele -- Retrieving the historical Lenin / Christopher Read -- In Lenin's shadow: Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Bolshevik Revolution / Jane McDermid and Anya Hillyar -- Soviet 'foreign policy' and the Versailles-Washington system / Paul Dukes -- From 'state of the art' to 'state art': the rise of socialist realism at the Tretyakov Gallery / Mary Hannah Byers -- Politics projected into the past: what precipitated the 1936 campaign against M.N. Pokrovsky? / David Brandenberger.