Ending the Russian Revolution: Reflections on Soviet History and its Interpreters

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHEILA FITZPATRICK
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Soviet History

This lecture presents the text of the speech about the ending of the Russian Revolution delivered by the author at the 2008 Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture held at the British Academy. It addresses the problems for historians in determining the meaning and moral of a revolution. The lecture analogizes the French and Russian Revolution and suggests that the Russian Revolution and its historiography has always been to some extent in the shadow of the French.

PECULIARITIES, TYPOLOGY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS AND THE CIVIL WAR IN THE WORKS OF A.V. SHUBIN

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-114
Author(s):  
Valeriy Ljubin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
World History ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
State University ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The review analyzes the approaches of the well-known Russian historian A.V. Shubin to the coverage of the typology of revolutions and the features and chronology of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-1922. Alexander Vladlenovich Shubin is Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at Russian State University for the Humanities, author of more than 20 monographs and about 200 scientific publications on the problems of Soviet history and history of leftist ideas and movements.

The Genealogy of the “Leader of the People”: Images of Leaders and the Political Language of the Russian Revolution of 1917

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 149-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Ivanovich Kolonitskii
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Language ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
The People ◽  
Negative Publicity

Boris Kolonitskii continues his studies of the cult of Alexander Kerensky in 1917 and the larger issues of the vocabulary used to describe leaders and the nature of cults and their relationship to authoritarianism in Russian and Soviet history. He reviews the linguistic fields surrounding such revolutionary figures as Miliukov, Rodzianko, Chernov, Plekhanov and Lenin and shows how politicians may become hostages of their own rhetoric. Hero image terminology can sanctify the leader. But even negative publicity or criticism can lead to the strengthening of the cult image. The construction of cults is subject to reversals and shifting creativity. Cults have pre- histories and are vital to our understanding of 20th century politics.

The Prosecution of Soviet History: A Critique of Richard Pipes' The Russian Revolution

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kenez ◽  
Richard Pipe ◽  
Richard Pipes
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Soviet History

Economic Views of L. Trotsky

2004 ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
M. Voeikov ◽  
S. Dzarasov
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Russian History ◽  
History Of

The paper written in the light of 125th birth anniversary of L. Trotsky analyzes the life and ideas of one of the most prominent figures in the Russian history of the 20th century. He was one of the leaders of the Russian revolution in its Bolshevik period, worked with V. Lenin and played a significant role in the Civil War. Rejected by the party bureaucracy L. Trotsky led uncompromising struggle against Stalinism, defending his own understanding of the revolutionary ideals. The authors try to explain these events in historical perspective, avoiding biases of both Stalinism and anticommunism.

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