Russian Revolution

Sobre individualismo e revolucao social

by Carlo Romani

Published as introduction to Emma GOLDMAN, O individuo, a sociedade e o Estado, e outros ensaios. Sao Paulo: Hedra, 2007.

Presentation to Emma Goldman's essays about anti-Militarism, anti-patriotism, individualism, desmistifying comunism in... more Presentation to Emma Goldman's essays about anti-Militarism, anti-patriotism, individualism, desmistifying comunism in Russia, answering Trotsky

Ein Yankee am Hofe des Zaren: Mark Twain und die Friends of Russian Freedom

by John Andreas Fuchs

In: Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte 2/2011, S. 69-85.

Obraz Rosji w pismach lewicy chorwackiej okresu międzywojennego. Miroslav Krleža i August Cesarec [The Image of Russia in Croatian Left-wing Writings of Interwar Period. Miroslav Krleža and August Cesarec],

by Adam F. Kola

Obraz Rosji w pismach lewicy chorwackiej okresu międzywojennego. Miroslav Krleža i August Cesarec [The Image of Russia in Croatian Left-wing Writings of Interwar Period. Miroslav Krleža and August Cesarec], “Colloquia Balcanica”, vol. 1, ed. J. Sujecka, Semantyka Rosji na Bałkanach [The Semantic of Russia on the Balkans], Warsaw:DiG 2011, pp. 49-172 [PL with ENG summary]

The article’s objective is to present the image of Russia as it is perceived in the writings of Miroslav Krleža and... more The article’s objective is to present the image of Russia as it is perceived in the writings of Miroslav Krleža and August Cesarec, and in their mediation in Croatian left–wing circles. It is also intended to be a contribution to distinguishing two directly related questions: (1) making it possible to draw conclusions concerning the image of Russia in Yugoslavian leftist circles between the two World Wars; (2) adding to the image of Russia issues concerning Croatian culture, including socio–political literature and ideas. [more in attached English summary]

The Russian Revolution: Unity or Destruction

by Leonidas Garcia

My analysis of The Russian Revolution and why the Provisional Government was doomed from its inception

The 1917 Russian Revolution presented the opportunity for the Russian people to overthrow the Old Regime of Tsardom... more The 1917 Russian Revolution presented the opportunity for the Russian people to overthrow the Old Regime of Tsardom and in its place create a democratic Russian government. The period of dual power between the Provisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet led to further uncertainty, which ultimately culminated in the October Revolution and the creation of a new Russian government that would pursue the goal of a democratic state.

The Event - Lenin intro

by Nathan Coombs

The Sources and Risks of Russia’s White Revolution: Why Putin failed and the Russian democrats may too

by Andreas Umland

Geopolitika [Vilnius Centre for Geopolitical Studies], 3 January 2012.

„Zu den deutschen Reaktionen auf die russischen Revolutionen von 1917 – Einblicke in Politik und Presse“

by John Andreas Fuchs

In: Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte 1/2008, S. 29-45

„Die USA und die russischen Revolutionen von 1917 – Reaktionen im Kongreß und in der New York Times“

by John Andreas Fuchs

In: Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte 2/2007, S. 59-84

"Fuchs’ article [...] deals with a topic which is too often neglected – the reception of the revolution of 1917... more "Fuchs’ article [...] deals with a topic which is too often neglected – the reception of the revolution of 1917 in elite circles in the United States. He points to Ambassador Francis’s keenness that the US should take the initiative and be first to recognise the Provisional Government and the exaggerated hopes placed in Russia’s new ‘republic’ (which was not officially proclaimed until September) by American opinion. Jewish hopes also rose. Expatriates were not immune. So excited was the congregation of one New York Russian Orthodox cathedral, that traditional prayers for the Tsar were instantly omitted from the liturgy. Once the Bolsheviks came to power the mood quickly soured and turned to stories of child murder and mass killings for fun. The only feature shared by these accounts is inaccuracy. The US did not really create a lasting impact by first recognition; the republic had little solid foundation; the lot of Jews did improve but not in line with expectations and the atrocity stories were often exaggerated or unsubstantiated. However, Fuchs’ excellent account does remind us that, although they were in conflict, liberal opinion in the US opposed both Tsar and Kaiser. Had the Tsar not been overthrown the chances of the United States joining the war would have been greatly reduced."

Christopher Read, Coventry, West Midlands

Source: Christopher Read über: Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte. Herausgegeben von Nikolaus Lobkowicz, Leonid Luks and Alexei Rybakov. Jg. 11, 2007, H. 2: Schwerpunktthema „Die Russische Revolution“. Böhlau Verlag Köln, Weimar, Wien 2007. ISBN: 978-3-412-21406-7, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. Neue Folge, 57 (2009) H. 4, S. 612-613: http://www.oei-dokumente.de/JGO/Rez/Read_Forum_11_2007_1.html (04.01.2010)

‘Kronstadt Mutiny 1921’

by Christian Garland

‘Kronstadt Mutiny 1921’ pps. 2003-2005 International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-the present ed. Ness, I. (Oxford & New York: Blackwell Publishing) http://www.revolutionprotestencyclopedia.com/public/

The Ominousness of Chekhovian Idyll: The Role of Intertextuality in Stoppard’s "The Coast of Utopia."

by Nina Wieda

Published in _Ot “Igrokov” do “Dostoevsky-trip”: intertekstual’nost’ v russkoi dramaturgii XIX – XX vv_. Izdatel’stvo MGU: Moskva, 2006. 59 – 68.

Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince Vs Passive Revolution

by Peter D. Thomas

Peter Thomas, “Gramsci and the Intellectuals: Modern Prince Vs Passive Revolution”, Marxism and Intellectuals, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2007

A Plague of Discontent: Russian Dystopia and the 1905 Revolution

by Thomas Lecaque

Term Paper for Cole Woodcox, Science Fiction by Gaslight, Spring 2009

"I Must First Take Stock of My Own Self": The Individual and the Not-Mass in Emma Goldman's Anarchism

by Laura Greenwood

MA Thesis, Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics, Trent University, 2011

This thesis, which aims to interrogate Emma Goldman as an innovative anarchist thinker, seeks to illuminate her... more This thesis, which aims to interrogate Emma Goldman as an innovative anarchist thinker, seeks to illuminate her conception of the individual and its implications for radical political organizing by focusing on three texts.  The individual is first described in relation to Goldman's Nietzschean essay “Minorities versus Majorities;” while the essay's title suggests a simple dichotomy, Greimasian semiotics reveals the not-mass as a tactic of individuals' political organizing.  Goldman's notion of the individual is further developed in her autobiography Living My Life; this thesis argues that not only does Goldman constitute herself an anarchistic individual through this text, but also that the text advances a notion of the individual as open, becoming, unfixed, and self-creating.  Finally, Goldman's My Disillusionment in Russia is read as an exploration of the downfalls of mass revolution and the possibility of individuals engaging in not-mass radical politics.

Meyerhold and Stanislavsky at Povarskaia Street: Art, money, politics and the birth of laboratory theatre

by Kathryn Syssoyeva

PhD Thesis, Stanford University Department of Drama and Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2009

This dissertation concerns the founding of the Studio-theatre on Povarskaia Street, in Moscow, Russia 1905, under the... more This dissertation concerns the founding of the Studio-theatre on Povarskaia Street, in Moscow, Russia 1905, under the collaborative direction of Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold; the pivotal role of the Studio-theatre in the artistic careers of Stanislavsky and Meyerhold, and in the Russian theatre from 1905 to the present day; and the Studio-theatre's foundational role as the world's first "theatre laboratory."

V.E. Meyerhold. Nasledie. 1. Avtobiograficheskie materialy. Dokumenty 1896-1903, and: V.E. Meyerhold. Lektsii: 1918-1919, and: V.E. Meyerhold. Nasledie. 2. Tovarischestvo novoi dramy. Sozdanie Studii na Povarskoi. Leto 1903-vesna 1905 (review)

by Kathryn Syssoyeva

TDR: The Drama Review, Volume 54, Number 3, Fall 2010 (T 207), pp. 170-174 (Review)

In lieu of an abstract, a preview of the article.

When I die, everyone will go crawling into the... more In lieu of an abstract, a preview of the article.

When I die, everyone will go crawling into the files-"what secrets are in there?" None. Scraps and hieroglyphs.
-Meyerhold (Sitkovetskaia 2001:42)

O.M. Feldman's three volumes of Meyerhold's papers represent the culmination of 50 years of Meyerhold scholarship: much of it conducted not in print, but behind the scenes, in the reading room of the Russian Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), by an evolving team of scholars who have devoted decades to piecing together the complex history of a creative life that the Stalinist machine had sought to expunge. Though the years since Meyerhold's rehabilitation have seen the publication of numerous books and articles, Feldman's three volumes are the first works that allow the reader to glimpse the full breadth and complexity of Meyerhold's work-and of the fraught artistic life lived through two revolutions, civil war, continual social upheaval, and profound cultural change. The Meyerhold archives are vast. Their holdings are almost an embarrassment of riches, a fact to which Feldman's books bear witness: the three volumes of documents and commentary Feldman has published thus far (some 1,700 pages in all) take us from 1896 to 1905 (with a brief leap forward to 1918, to cover a series of course lectures). Meyerhold died in 1940.

A victim of the Stalinist repression, Meyerhold was assassinated in Lubyanka prison; his archives were classified material until 1955, when the director was officially "rehabilitated." Among the first scholars to set to work on Meyerhold's papers in the post-Stalin era was Alexandr Viliamovich Fevralskii, former literary director of GosTIM (the Meyerhold theatre). In 1968, Fevralskii brought out a two-volume collection of Meyerhold's writings: Stati, pisma, rechi, besedi (Articles, Letters, Speeches, Conversations; Fevralskii and Sitkovetskaiia 1968). It was the beginning of the mission that has since been taken up by O.M. Feldman: to "unlock" the archives by bringing Meyerhold's papers to print. That project would prove long and painstaking, obstructed by missing documentation, unattributed
correspondence, and an official record of Soviet cultural history grossly at variance with reality....

Russian Economists and the Revolution (in Italian)

by Alberto Masoero

Gli economisti russi e la rivoluzione, Rivista storica italiana, 112, 3 (2000).
Commentary on A.Stanziani, L'économie en révolution

«Trotskistskaya oppozitsiya»? Tipy i konfiguratsii Levoĭ oppozitsii 1923 g.

by Alexander V. Reznik

see pp. 87-92

"A Dirty Place for Americans to Be": Images of the Russian Civil War In Siberia From the Robert L. Eichelberger Collection at Duke University Libraries

by Ernest Zitser

The article describes the contents of a substantial and little-known collection of Russian Civil War photographs... more The article describes the contents of a substantial and little-known collection of Russian Civil War photographs currently held at the Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. The images come from the personal archive of General Robert L. Eichelberger (1886–1961), Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations Division, and Chief Intelligence Officer with the American Expeditionary Forces in eastern Siberia, 1918–1920. The article analyzes the scholarly research value of this collection, which has been scanned as part of the Duke University Libraries digital collections project called Americans in the Land of Lenin: Documentary Photographs of Early Soviet Russia.

Anatomia di una crisi. La Rivoluzione russa nello specchio dell'Asia centrale

by Alberto Masoero

Quaderni storici, 119, n.2, 2005, pp.609-622.

The Grass-roots of Russia's Second Revolution (Review Article)

by Andreas Umland

The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol. 15, no. 3 (1999), pp. 114-120.