Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution: Fighting Words

by Michael C. Hickey

Overview

This new collection of documents helps students understand the complex texture of Russian public rhetoric and popular debate during World War I and the 1917 Revolution.

How better to understand history than through the words of those who lived it? Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution: Fighting Words presents documents that underscore the extraordinary richness of public discussion about key events and issues during the 1917 Russian Revolution, one of the pivotal events in modern history. Carefully edited and annotated, the documents help clarify the issues while revealing the broad range of ways in which Russians understood the events unfolding around them.

Focusing on public rhetoric and debate in Russia from the outbreak of World War I in 1914 through the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918, the documents present the views not only of key political figures, but also of ordinary men and women—mothers, soldiers, factory workers, peasants, students, businesspeople, and educated professionals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313385230
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/21/2010
Series:	Fighting Words
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	616
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Michael C. Hickey, PhD, is professor of history at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in Bloomsburg, PA.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Part 1 The Context of World War I 1

Chapter 1 The War and Political Elites 19

Chapter 2 The War and Ordinary People 43

Part 2 February-July 1917 63

Chapter 3 Responses to the February Revolution 83

Chapter 4 What the Revolution Means to Me, Part I: Soldiers, Workers, Professionals, Industrialists, and Students 117

Chapter 5 What the Revolution Means to Me, Part II: Clergy, Peasants, Aristocratic Landowners, Women, and National and Religious Minorities 147

Chapter 6 Flash Points of Conflict: The April Crisis 117

Chapter 7 Flash Points of Conflict: The June Offensive and the July Days 225

Part 3 July-October 1917 263

Chapter 8 Two Provincial Stories 277

Chapter 9 Perceptions of Crisis in Summer and Early Fall 303

Chapter 10 Flash Points of Conflict: The Kornilov Rebellion 341

Chapter 11 Electoral Politics: Campaigns for Local Dumas and the Constituent Assembly 371

Chapter 12 The Soviets and the Constitution of State Power in September and October 405

Part 4 The First Months of Soviet Rule, October I917-January 1918 447

Chapter 13 Flash Points of Conflict: the October Revolution and Creation of a Bolshevik Government 461

Chapter 14 Flash Points of Conflict: the Constituent Assembly 497

End Matter 529

Editorial Reviews

This volume is an amazing collection of more than 200 primary source documents from the period of the Russian Revolution, all translated into English and placed in historical context. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended.” —Choice

“Michael Hickey's new book is the most substantial attempt thus far to convey the rich range of views that existed during Russia's turbulent revolutionary period. It should be an essential part of any student module on the subject and many of the sources will force specialists to rethink their views on particular groups and episodes.” —Revolutionary Russia

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