The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 is a new history of Russia's
revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense
of history as it unfolded in their own lives and as they took part
in making history themselves. The major events, trends, and
explanations, reaching from Bloody Sunday in 1905 to the final
shots of the civil war in 1921, are viewed through the doubled
perspective of the professional historian looking backward and the
contemporary journalist reporting and interpreting history as it
happened. The volume then turns toward particular places and
people: city streets, peasant villages, the margins of empire
(Central Asia, Ukraine, the Jewish Pale), women and men, workers
and intellectuals, artists and activists, utopian visionaries, and
discontents of all kinds. We spend time with the famous (Vladimir
Lenin, Lev Trotsky, Alexandra Kollontai, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac
Babel) and with those whose names we don't even know. Key themes
include difference and inequality (social, economic, gendered,
ethnic), power and resistance, violence, and ideas about justice
and freedom. Written especially for students and general readers,
this history relies extensively on contemporary texts and voices in
order to bring the past and its meanings to life. This is a history
about dramatic and uncertain times and especially about the
interpretations, values, emotions, desires, and disappointments
that made history matter to those who lived it.
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