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Author:   Carol S. Leonard ,  Daniel Orlovsky ,  Jurej Petrov
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032814537

ISBN 10:   1032814535
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors viii List of Figures xv List of Tables xvii Preface xviii CAROL S. LEONARD AND DANIEL ORLOVSKY I Introduction: Interpreting the Russian Revolution of 1917 1 1 Introduction—Reflections on the Russian Revolution 3 DANIEL ORLOVSKY 2 The Great Russian Revolution, 1917–1922, and Problems of Historical Memory 12 JUREJ PETROV II Selected Western Revisionist Interpretations and Their Critics 17 3 How to End the Revolution: A Problem for Revolutionaries, Their Successors and Historians 19 SHEILA FITZPATRICK 4 More Lessons of October 29 RONALD GRIGOR SUNY 5 Soviet History Framework for Assessing the Russian Revolution 36 ROBERT SERVICE 6 The Politics of National History: Russia’s Ruling Elite and the Centenary of 1917 51 JAMES RYAN III The Major Soviet-era and Post-Soviet Russian Perspectives 73 7 From a National Celebration to an Inconvenient Past: Revolution of 1917 in Commemorative Practices and Policies and Annual Celebrations (1918–2017) 75 VITALIY TIKHONOV 8 Post-Soviet Writing About the October Revolution 97 VLADIMIR P. BULDAKOV 9 Culture in Revolution—Revolution in Culture 109 TATIANA A. FILIPPOVA IV New Approaches: “Leap Not the Landing” 125 10 The Revolution We Have Lost: 1917 as Future Possibility 127 MARK D. STEINBERG 11 Living Politics: The Kollektiv-Model and the Bolshevik Revolution 139 ANDY WILLIMOTT 12 Psychological and Emotional Experience in the Russian Revolution 158 VLADISLAV B. AKSENOV 13 Gender Images in the Russian Revolution: Backward Women and Forward Men in Iconic Perspective, 1919–1923 176 ELIZABETH A. WOOD Strategic Space During the Revolution 191 14 Building Soviet Democracy, Breeding Communist Dictatorship: Rise of the Party-State Apparatus, 1917–1923 193 LARA DOUDS 15 Railroads and Strikes in Russia, 1894–1904: Revolution in Times of Railroad Building 212 CAROL S. LEONARD, ZAFAR NAZAROV, LEONID BORODKIN, ROMAN B. KONCHAKOV AND MARIA KARPENKO Continuum of Crisis 245 16 Governing Revolution in Russia in 1917 and in the 1990s: Comparative Political Economy 247 VLADIMIR MAU AND CAROL S. LEONARD Impact Assessment 265 17 Two Octobers 267 ROBERT A. ROSENSTONE 18 Hitler, Stalin, or Roosevelt? Which Faces of the 1930s Will We See in the 2020s? 283 JACK A. GOLDSTONE Conclusion 295 CAROL S. LEONARD AND DANIEL ORLOVSKY Index 298

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Carol S. Leonard is Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK, and the former Director of the Center for Russian Studies, International Laboratory: Russia’s Historical Legacies and Regional Development at the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow. Daniel Orlovsky is Emeritus Professor of History at Southern Methodist University. Jurej Petrov is Director of the Institute of Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.

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