Red Star

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-52
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Djurasovic ◽  
Milan Djurasovic
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Advanced Form ◽  
The Revolution

Alexander Bogdanov's Red Star, published in 1908, was an attempt to reenergize the dejected revolutionaries whose efforts had been crushed during the 1905 Russian Revolution. The protagonist, Leonid, is a Russian revolutionary chosen, in the midst of the revolution, by the Martian expedition to visit their planet and learn about the centuries-old advanced form of communism there. Since the triumph of communism in Russia was the cause to which Leonid had decided to devote his life, he agrees to visit Mars so that he can absorb their ideas and principles.

Writing Women into the Russian Revolution of 1917

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-231
Author(s):  
Adele Lindenmeyr
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract While scholarship on Russian women’s history has flourished in recent decades, the participation of women in the 1917 Revolution continues to be under-researched and poorly understood. This article explores various reasons for the marginalization of women in studies of the revolution. It reviews promising recent research that recovers women’s experiences and voices, including work on women in the wartime labor force and soldiers’ wives, and argues for the usefulness of a feminist and gendered approach to studying 1917.

scholarly journals Dreams of the Russian Revolution in the Utopias of Alexander Chayanov and Andrei Platonov

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-290
Author(s):  
Alexander Nikulin
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

The Russian Revolution is the central theme of both A. Chayanov’s novel The Journey of My Brother Alexei to the Land of Peasant Utopia and A. Platonov’s novel Chevengur. The author of this article compares the chronicles and images of the Revolution in the biographies of Chayanov and Platonov as well as the main characters, genres, plots, and structures of the two utopian novels, and questions the very understanding of the history of the Russian Revolution and the possible alternatives of its development. The article focuses not only on the social-economic structure of utopian Moscow and Chevengur but also on the ethical-aesthetic foundations of both utopias. The author argues that the two utopias reconstruct, describe, and criticize the Revolution from different perspectives and positions. In general, Chayanov adheres to a relativistic and pluralistic perception of the Revolution and history, while Platonov, on the contrary, absolutizes the end of humankind history with the eschatological advent of Communism. In Chayanov‘s utopia, the Russian Revolution is presented as a viable alternative to the humanistic-progressive ideals of the metropolitan elites with the moderate populist-socialist ideas of the February Revolution. In Platonov’s utopia, the Revolution is presented as an alternative to the eschatological-ecological transformation of the world by provincial rebels inspired by the October Revolution. Thus, Chayanov’s liberal-cooperative utopia and Platonov’s anarchist-communist utopia contain both an apologia and a criticism of the Russian Revolution in the insights of its past and future victories and defeats, and opens new horizons for alternative interpretations of the Russian Revolution.

‘The Two Internationals’

2018 ◽  
pp. 10-37
Author(s):  
David Ayers
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
Leonard Woolf ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter outlines the attempts of journalists in the New Age and the New Statesman to understand and evaluate the events of the Russian Revolution as they occurred, with reference to such figures as Alfred Orage and Julius West. It then describes elements of early nationalities discourse in the writings of Leonard Woolf and J.A. Hobson, who debated the potential of a League of Nations as the basis of a postwar peace. These discourses about the Revolution and League would begin to change as the Revolution developed and Woodrow Wilson threw American weight behind the League.

Memory of the Revolution as a trauma inflicted on contemporary social conscience in Russia

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-229
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Conscience ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historic Memory ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractMany painful ideological problems existing in contemporary Russia are determined by the inadequacy of perception of the country's revolutionary past. This misperception stems from both the consequences of the decades-long mythologization of the October Revolution and its leaders and from the more recent attempts to get rid of the dependence on Bolshevik propaganda. Contemporary historic memory in Russia is beset with one major contradiction: the desire to part with the myth, and the inability to do so. Although, traditionally, images of the past are usually adapted in order to suit the needs of modernity, this task has become much easier in contemporary society with its powerful mass media fitted with visual networks. Historic memory, previously shaped by legends, folklore, rites and rituals, now comes under relentless fire from the dilettantes pretending to have discovered some "true" vision of the past, and illustrating this vision by incongruous video footage. As a result, images of the past inevitably lose their former edifying role and become a means of inculcation by propagating political and moral stereotypes advantageous to the authorities. The wave of discussions on the Russian Revolution, which rose in connection with its current anniversary, was yet another indication that today's ideologists, with their inept denunciations, are only aggravating the trauma inflicted on social conscience.

scholarly journals Making Sense of 1917: Towards a Global History of the Russian Revolution

Slavic Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 610-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Rendle
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Global History ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Paris Commune ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
History Of ◽  
Widespread Belief ◽  
The Revolution

It is clear that the global impact of the Russian Revolution over the last century has been immense. What is less clear, however, is the global impactonthe revolution. Historians have appreciated that contemporaries made immediate comparisons with previous revolutions, especially the French Revolution and the Paris Commune, but considerations of broader global influences on the revolution have been rare. This article explores how historians can study these global influences, exploring the circulation of ideas and their influence on people and policies. Whilst not denying the continuing primacy of traditional “internal” factors in explaining the nature and process of the revolution, the article argues that globalizing 1917, as contemporaries did, helps historians to better understand the widespread belief in progress that fueled developments as people sought to create a new country, and to appreciate how people tried to make sense of the tumultuous events of revolution.

scholarly journals The Revolution and the Revolutionaries: A View of the Conservative Publicists of the Church Periodicals of 1905-1907

2019 ◽  
pp. 250-261
Author(s):  
Павел Евгеньевич Липовецкий
Keyword(s):  
Physical Appearance ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Church ◽  
Spiritual State ◽  
The Revolution

В статье раскрывается отношение православных публицистов консервативного направления к событиям Первой русской революции 1905-1907 гг. Анализ понятийного аппарата авторов позволил выявить два важнейших понятия, служивших для выражения отношения к революции: «смута» и «враги». Смута по своей сути отождествлялась авторами материалов с периодом начала XVII в. Вместе с нестабильностью как чертой времени в их глазах важной чертой была и необходимость защищать Родину от угрожавших ей «врагов». В определение последних публицисты вкладывали целый набор черт - от внешнего вида и манеры поведения до оценки их духовного состояния. Вместе с тем «враги» в статьях разделялись на внешних и внутренних в зависимости от происхождения и методов борьбы. The article studies the attitude of orthodox publicists of conservative direction to the events of the first Russian revolution of 1905-1907. The analysis of the authors' conceptual apparatus reveals the two most important concepts used to express their attitude to the revolution: "distemper" and "enemies". The authors of the material identified Troubles in its essence with the time of the beginning of the 17th century. Along with instability as a feature of the times, an important feature in their eyes was the need to defend the homeland from the "enemies" who threatened it. Publicists defined the latter by a whole set of traits ranging from physical appearance and mannerisms to an assessment of their spiritual state. At the same time, the "enemies" in the articles were divided into external and internal, depending on their origins and methods of struggle.

scholarly journals Political Terrorism in the Russian Empire in 1901-1911 and Its Role in the Historical Memory of Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Т. Rocchi
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Socialist Revolution ◽  
Criminal Violence ◽  
Political Terrorism ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The Revolution

The first outbreak of mass political terrorism in the 20th century took place in the Russian Empire, especially in the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907. However, these events have not received proper attention in the historical memory of Russia and Europe and in the history of world terrorism. The author examines the factors enabling the continued existence of a huge “blank spot” in the memory of Russia and the world. The under-evaluation of the significance of terrorism in the first decade of the 20th century is closely connected with the under-evaluation of the First Russian Revolution as an independent revolution. In the Soviet Union, historians emphasized that the Revolution of 1905-1907 was “the dress rehearsal” for the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917. In post-Soviet Russia, many historians and publicists consider the Revolution of 1905-1907 “the dress rehearsal” for the “Golgotha” of 1917. There is a strong tendency to idealize the autocracy and right-wing movements and to demonize socialists and liberals. Many solid monographs and articles about terrorism are now being published in Russia. However, we still do not have exhaustive investigations covering the entire period of terrorism between 1866 (attempted assassination of Tsar Alexander II on April 4, 1866 by the revolutionary D.V. Karakozov) and 1911, examining the ideologies and tactics of different parties and movements, the government’s policies on political crimes, the relationships of society, especially among different political movements, to terrorism, and the differences between terrorism and other types of mass violence such as mass protest movements of different strata of the population and criminal violence. Only through a painstaking and multi-sided analysis of the terrorist phenomenon in the European-wide historical context we can determine the place of terrorism in the historical memory of Russia and Europe.

scholarly journals The Meaning of Memory in Bunin and Hippius

Literatūra ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-53
Author(s):  
Svetozar Poštić
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Spiritual Orientation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Revolution

This paper illustrates the meaning of memory by the fate and change in spiritual orientation of Ivan Bunin and Zinaida Hippius, two prominent literary figures of the late tsarist Russia and interbellum émigré Paris. Most importantly, it examines the post-revolutionary transformation of values and reconciliation with external circumstances and internal afflictions of these two writers. The significance of memory becomes prominent in Bunin after his realization of the tragic and frightening consequences of the revolution, which results in his turn to the past as the source of tranquility and comfort. Hippius’s diaries and poetry, especially after her husband’s death, also show her turn toward eternal values and away from the hitherto paramount terrestrial, fleeting aspirations. The oeuvres of both writers are placed in the context of pre-revolutionary orientation towards the past that is contrary to the modernist shift to the future, which announced and precipitated the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Review of Russian Exhibits and Media Projects on the Centennial of the Russian Revolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Lipilina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract The Russian Revolution of 1917 altered the fate and political landscape not only of Europe, but of the world. The article discusses the many exhibitions in Russia on the centenary of the Russian Revolution in major museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as in other parts of the country. In most exhibitions, poignant questions and conflicting memories put forth by different groups about the same events were strictly avoided, and many curators shied away from offering interpretations or making assessments as much as possible. What the jubilee year has shown is that the causes and consequences of the Revolution will continue to be studied and discussed.

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