Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Ian D. Thatcher

   Pages 1-19

3. Terror in 1905

   • John Keep

   Pages 20-35

4. Mariya Spiridonova: Russian Martyr and British Heroine? The Portrayal of a Russian Female Terrorist in the British Press

   • Jane McDermid

   Pages 36-54

5. The First World War and the End of Tsarism

   • David Saunders

   Pages 55-71

6. The October Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, and the End of the Russian Revolution

   • Rex A. Wade

   Pages 72-85

7. Trotsky and the Russian Civil War

   • Geoffrey Swain

   Pages 86-104

8. A Bolshevik in Brixton Prison: Fedor Raskol’nikov and the Origins of Anglo-Soviet Relations

   • Jonathan D. Smele

   Pages 105-129

9. Retrieving the Historical Lenin

   • Christopher Read

   Pages 130-147

10. In Lenin’s Shadow: Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Bolshevik Revolution

    • Jane McDermid, Anya Hillyar

    Pages 148-165

11. Soviet ‘Foreign Policy’ and the Versailles-Washington System

    • Paul Dukes

    Pages 166-183

12. From ‘State of the Art’ to ‘State Art’: The Rise of Socialist Realism at the Tretyakov Gallery

    • Mary Hannah Byers

    Pages 184-201

13. Politics Projected into the Past: What Precipitated the 1936 Campaign Against M.N. Pokrovsky?

    • David Brandenberger

    Pages 202-214

14. Back Matter

    Pages 215-219

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This is a stimulating and highly original collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. The contributors reinterpret key issues and debates, including political, social, cultural and international aspects of the Russian revolution stretching from the late imperial period into the early Soviet state.

• civil war
• revolution
• Russia
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

'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

• Brunel University, UK

  Ian D. Thatcher

DAVID BRANDENBERGER Assistant Professor of History, University of Richmond, USA MARY HANNAH BYERS Exhibitions Manager at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, USA PAUL DUKES Professor Emeritus of the Department of History, University of Aberdeen, UK ANYA HILLYAR Independent Scholar JOHN KEEP Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Canada JANE MCDERMID Senior Lecturer in History, University of Southampton, UK CHRISTOPHER READ Professor of History, University of Warwick, UK DAVID SAUNDERS Professor of History, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK JONATHAN D. SMELE Senior Lecturer in History, Queen Mary, University of London, UK GEOFFREY SWAIN Alec Nove Professor, University of Glasgow, UK REX A. WADE Professor of History, George Mason University, USA

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