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The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia presents a
unique and timely global history intervention into the
historiography of the Russian Revolution of 1917, marking the
centenary of one of the most significant modern revolutions. It
explores the legacies of the Revolution across the Asian continent
and maritime Southeast Asia, with a broad geographic sweep
including Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China, the Philippines,
Vietnam, Indonesia, and India. It analyses how revolutionary
communism intersected with a variety of Asian contexts, from the
anti-colonial movement and ethnic tensions, to indigenous cultural
frameworks and power structures. In so doing, this volume
privileges Asian actors and perspectives, examining how Asian
communities reinterpreted the Revolution to serve unexpected ends,
including national liberation, regional autonomy, conflict with
Russian imperial hegemony, Islamic practice and cultural nostalgia.
Methodologically, this volume breaks new ground by incorporating
research from a wide range of sources across multiple languages,
many analysed for the first time in English-language scholarship.
This book will be of use to historians of the Russian Revolution,
especially those interested in understanding transnational and
transregional perspectives of its impact in Central Asia and
Southeast Asia, as well as historians of Asia more broadly. It will
also appeal to those interested in the history of Islam.
The Russian Revolution in Asia: From Baku to Batavia presents a
unique and timely global history intervention into the
historiography of the Russian Revolution of 1917, marking the
centenary of one of the most significant modern revolutions. It
explores the legacies of the Revolution across the Asian continent
and maritime Southeast Asia, with a broad geographic sweep
including Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China, the Philippines,
Vietnam, Indonesia, and India. It analyses how revolutionary
communism intersected with a variety of Asian contexts, from the
anti-colonial movement and ethnic tensions, to indigenous cultural
frameworks and power structures. In so doing, this volume
privileges Asian actors and perspectives, examining how Asian
communities reinterpreted the Revolution to serve unexpected ends,
including national liberation, regional autonomy, conflict with
Russian imperial hegemony, Islamic practice and cultural nostalgia.
Methodologically, this volume breaks new ground by incorporating
research from a wide range of sources across multiple languages,
many analysed for the first time in English-language scholarship.
This book will be of use to historians of the Russian Revolution,
especially those interested in understanding transnational and
transregional perspectives of its impact in Central Asia and
Southeast Asia, as well as historians of Asia more broadly. It will
also appeal to those interested in the history of Islam.
Until recently, historians of World War II have mainly studied
Europe during liberation--from the final years of the conflict to
the start of the Cold War--from the perspective of nations, of
political units. A whole historiography has been built on examining
how national elites worked to restore institutions, positions of
power, and infrastructure in order to reestablish central authority
within the postwar territory assigned to each state. But, as this
volume shows, the events of liberation played out not only in
politics, but also in society at local, regional, national, and
international levels. In thirteen incisive essays, the contributors
to "Seeking Peace in the Wake of War" examine European social
life--instances of exchange, the actors involved, and their
motivations--during these years of state emergence and transition.
They postulate that the issue of how peace was conceived of and
constructed in the postwar period should be approached as an
episode of reconfiguration stretching far beyond politics, in which
new arrangements were reached within societies, states, and the
international order.
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