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The Revolution and Civil War in Russia: Contemporary Historiography (in Russian)

Michael

Революция и Гражданская война в России: современная историография (обложка)The collection was published in 2018 and became a kind of extension for Revolutions of 1917 in Russia; it contains materials both on historiography of the 1917 revolutions and of the Civil War.  Special attention is paid to the new approaches in historiography, discussions among historians about the sources, chronological framework, and significance of those events for the further development of the country.

Contents:

  • Preface
  • O. S. Porshneva, ed., 1917 god v Rossii: Sotsialisticheskaia ideia, revoliutsionnaia mifologiia i praktika [1917 in Russia: Socialist idea, revolutionary mythology and practice] (Abstract)
  • M. Aust, Russische Revolution: Vom Zarenreich zum Sowjetimperium [Russian revolution: From the tsarism to the Soviet empire] (Abstract)
  • Iu. Kantor, ed., 1917: Vokrug Zimnego [1917: Around the Winter Palace] (Abstract)
  • O. Figes, ‘The “Harmless Drunk”: Lenin and the October Insurrection’ (Abstract)
  • K. B. Nazarenko, Baltiiskii flot v revoliutsii, 1917–1918 gg. [The Baltic Fleet in the revolution, 1917–1918] (Abstract)
  • T. Brenton, ‘The Short Life and Early Death of Russian Democracy: The Duma and the Constituent Assembly’ (Abstract)
  • J. Horne and R. Herwarth, eds., Voina vo vremia mira: Voenizirovannye konflikty posle Pervoi mirovoi voiny, 1917–1923 [War in the time of peace: Military conflicts after World War I, 1917–1923] (Abstract)
  • J. Smele, The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars: Ten Years that Shook the World (Abstract)
  • A. Graziosi, Istoriia SSSR [The history of the USSR] (Abstract)
  • I. S. Rat’kovskii, Khronika krasnogo terrora VChK: Karaiushchii mech revoliutsii [The chronicle of the red terror of the VChK: The punishing sword of the revolution] (Abstract)
  • V. P. Liubin, ‘Grazhdanskaia voina i krasnyi terror v Krymu’ [The Civil War and the red terror in the Crimea]
  • M. M. Mints, ‘Spetssluzhby v Grazhdanskoi voine’ [Intelligence agencies in the Civil War] (Review essay)
  • D. Lieven, ‘Foreign Intervention: The Long View’ (Abstract)
  • V. S. Konovalov, ‘Pretendenty na liderstvo: Bol’shevistskie vozhdi v Grazhdanskoi voine’ [The candidates for the leadership: Bolshevik leaders in the Civil War] (Review essay)
  • V. S. Konovalov, ‘Problemy upravleniia territoriiami vo vremia Grazhdanskoi voiny’ [Territorial administration problems during the Civil War] (Review essay)
  • L. Novikova, Provintsial’naia ‘kontrrevoliutsiia’: Beloe dvizhenie i Grazhdanskaia voina na russkom Severe [Provincial ‘counterrevolution’: White movement and the Civil War in the Russian North] (Abstract)
  • V. G. Kokoulin, Belaia Sibir’: Bor’ba politicheskikh partii i grupp (noiabr’ 1918—dekabr’ 1919 g.) [White Siberia: The struggle between political parties and groupings (November 1918—December 1919)] (Abstract)
  • A. B. Retish, Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914–1922 (Abstract)
  • E. Landis, ‘The Fate of the Soviet Countryside’ (Abstract)
  • A. V. Posadskii, Zelenoe dvizhenie v Grazhdanskoi voine v Rossii: Krest’ianskii front mezhdu krasnymi i belymi, 1918–1922 gg. [Green movement in the Civil War in Russia: Peasant front between the Reds and the Whites, 1918–1922] (Abstract)
  • O. V. Babenko, ‘Russkaia revoliutsiia i Grazhdanskaia voina glazami deiatelei kul’tury’ [The Russian revolution and the Civil War through the eyes of cultural figures]
  • A. N. Eremeeva, ‘Nakhodias’ po usloviiam vremeni v provintsii…’: Praktiki vyzhyvaniia rossiiskikh uchenykh v gody Grazhdanskoi voiny [‘While being in the province under present conditions…’: Survival practices of the Russian scientists in the years of the Civil War] (Abstract)
  • T. I. Troshina, ‘Internirovannaia Krasnaia armiia’ v Germanii v 1920–1921 godakh: Ob odnom poluzabytom epizode Grazhdanskoi voiny [‘The interned Red Army’ in Germany in the 1920–1921: On one half-forgotten episode of the Civil War] (Abstract)
  • R. Sakwa, ‘The Rise of Leninism: The Death of Political Pluralism in the Post-Revolutionary Bolshevik Party’ (Abstract)
  • V. Dönninghaus, ‘Nemetskie sektsii RKP(b): Nesostoiavshiisia avangard “mirovoi revoliutsii” (1918–1921 gg.)’ [German sections of the RKP(b): A failed would-be vanguard of the ‘world revolution’, 1918–1921]
  • T. M. Fadeeva, ‘Stoletniaia godovshchina russkoi revoliutsii’ [The centenary of the Russian revolution] (Review essay)
  • V. I. Goldin, Grazhdanskaia voina v Rossii skvoz’ prizmu let: Istoriograficheskie protsessy [The Civil War in Russia through the prism of years: Historiographical developments] (Abstract)
  • Grazhdanskaia voina v Rossii 1917–1921 gg.: Istoricheskaia pamiat’ i problemy memorializatsii ‘krasnogo’ i ‘belogo’ dvizheniia [The Civil War in Russia, 1917–1921: Historical memory and the problems of memorialization of the Red and White movements] (Abstract)
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Revolutions of 1917 in Russia: Contemporary Historiography (in Russian)

Michael

Революции 1917 года в России: современная историография (обложка)A collection of reviews and library-research papers published in 2017 for the centenary of the Russian 1917 revolutions.  Its materials address the works of Russian and foreign scholars that deal with the 1917 events, including their broader historical background.  Considerable attention is paid to the military-political, social and cultural aspects of the revolutionary period which are examined in the context of the collapse of empires.  Special emphasis is placed on the literature containing the most significant changes in research evaluation of the 1914–21 global crisis.

Contents:

  • Preface
  • V. M. Shevyrin, ‘Politicheskie protsessy v Rossii v preddverii revoliustii 1917 goda’ [Political processes in Russia on the eve of the 1917 revolution] (Review essay)
  • V. M. Shevyrin and I. K. Bogomolov, ‘Ekonomicheskoe polozhenie Rossii nakanune revoliutsii 1917 goda’ [Economical situation in Russia on the eve of the 1917 revolution] (Review essay)
  • D. Lieven, The End of Tsarist Russia: March to World War I and Revolution (Abstract)
  • J. Sanborn, Inperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (Abstract)
  • E. Lohr, V. Tolz, A. Semyonov, and M. von Hagen, eds., The Empire and Nationalism at War (Abstract)
  • L. Riga, The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire (Abstract)
  • V. M. Shevyrin, ‘Kontseptsiia russkoi revoliutsii v trudakh V. P. Buldakova’ [Conception of the Russian revolution in the works by V. P. Buldakov] (Review essay)
  • E. Cinnella, 1917: La Russia verso l’abisso [1917: Russia on the way into the abyss] (Abstract)
  • M. D. Steinberg, The Russian Revolution, 1905–1921 (Abstract)
  • D. P. Koenker and W. G. Rosenberg, Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (Abstract)
  • S. V. Bespalov and O. L. Aleksandri, ‘Obrazy rossiiskoi vlasti epokhi voin i revoliutsii v trudakh B. I. Kolonitskogo’ [Images of the Russian power in the period of wars and revolutions in the works by B. I. Kolonitskii] (Review essay)
  • A. N. Medushevskii, Politicheskaia istoriia russkoi revoliutsii: normy, instituty, formy sotsial’noi mobilizatsii v XX veke [Political history of the Russian revolution: norms, institutions, forms of the social mobilization in the twentieth century] (Abstract)
  • B. D. Palmer and J. Sangster, ‘The Distinctive Heritage of 1917: Resuscitating Revolution’s longue durée’ (Abstract)
  • E. Acton, V. Cherniaev, and W. Rosenberg, eds., Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914–1921 (Abstract)
  • Iu. V. Dunaeva, ‘Publikatsii zhurnala “Kritika” v preddverii stoletiia revoliutsii 1917 goda’ [Publications in Kritika on the eve of the centenary of the 1917 revolutions] (Review essay)

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Russia in the First World War: New Lines of Research (in Russian)

Michael

A collection of reviews and library-research papers prepared in 2013 in collaboration with Irina Glebova and Olga Bolshakova for the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.  Its materials examine new interpretations and approaches of Russian and foreign historians to the study of World War I and Russia’s role in it.  Special attention is paid to the current lines of research, including the history of empires, new cultural history, the study of memory about World War I.

Due to various reasons, the volume was not printed, its electronic version was posted on the website of our institute: https://legacy.inion.ru/files/File/Russia_in_WW1_SOR_Preprint.pdf

Contents:

  • ‘O iubileinykh perspektivakh i nastoiashchem izdanii’ [The perspectives of the centenary and current volume]
  • I. I. Glebova, ‘V poiskakh utrachennoi voiny: O Pervoi mirovoi v rossiiskoi istorii i pamiati (Predislovie)’ [In search of the lost war: The First World War in Russian history and memory (Preface)]
  • J. Winter, A. Prost, The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Abstract)
  • V. M. Shevyrin, ‘Rossiia v Pervoi mirovoi voine (Noveishaia otechestvennaia istoriografiia)’ [Russia in the First World War (Recent Russian historiography)] (Review article)
  • Pervaia mirovaia voina: Vzgliad spustia stoletie: Doklady i vystupleniia uchastnikov mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii ‘Pervaia mirovaia voina i sovremennyi mir’ [The First World War: A view from a century later: Proceedings of the international conference ‘The First World War and the modern world’] (Abstract)
  • P. Gatrell, Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History (Abstract)
  • P. Holquist, Making War, Forging Revolution: Russia’s Continuum of Crisis, 1914–1921 (Abstract)
  • M. M. Mints, ‘Vostochnaia Evropa v Pervoi mirovoi voine: Stolknovenie i raspad trekh imperii’ [Eastern Europe in the First World War: The clash and collapse of three empires] (Review article)
  • M. A. Reynolds, Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1908–1918 (Abstract)
  • J. Sanborn, ‘The Genesis of Russian Warlordism: Violence and Governance During the First World War and the Civil War’ (Abstract)
  • M. M. Mints, ‘Obraz vraga v soznanii russkikh i nemtsev v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny’ [The image of the enemy in Russian and German thought during the First World War] (Review essay)
  • V. M. Shevyrin, ‘“Vnutrennii vrag” v Rossii v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny’ [‘The enemy from within’ in Russia during the First World War] (Review essay)
  • B. I. Kolonitskii, ‘Tragicheskaia erotika’: Obrazy imperatorskoi sem’i v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny [The images of the imperial family during the First World War] (Abstract)
  • A. J. Cohen, Imagining the Unimaginable: World War, Modern Art, and the Politics of Public Culture in Russia, 1914–1917 (Abstract)
  • O. V. Bolshakova, ‘Pervaia mirovaia voina v sovremennoi angloiazychnoi istoriografii Rossii: Gendernyi aspekt’ [The First World War in modern anglophone historiography of Russia: Gender dimension] (Review article)
  • O. S. Nagornaia, ‘Drugoi voennyi opyt’: Rossiiskie voennoplennye Pervoi mirovoi voiny v Germanii (1914–1922) (Abstract)
  • O. V. Babenko, ‘Deiatel’nost’ pol’skikh gumanitarnykh organizatsii na zemliakh Rossiiskoi imperii v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny’ [The activity of the Polish humanitarian organisations in the Russian Empire during the First World War] (Review essay)
  • A. Sumpf, ‘Une société amputée: Les retours des invalides russes de la Grande Guerre, 1914–1929’ [An amputated society: The homecoming of the Russian invalids of the Great War, 1914–1929] (Abstract)
  • K. Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory (Abstract)

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Rebel movement in the North Caucasus in the first half of the 20th century

Michael

M. M. Mints, “Povstancheskoe dvizhenie na Severnom Kavkaze v pervoi polovine XX veka”, Sotsial’nye i gumanitarnye nauki: Otechestvennaia i zarubezhnaia literatura: Referativnyi zhurnal. Seriia 5, Istoriia, no. 2 (2018): 109–117.

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A review of two monographs and an article published in 2016 that deal with the history of the conflicts between the population of the North Caucasus and the Russian government (imperial, later Soviet) during the first half of the twentieth century.

Bibliography on World War I

Michael

In the fall of 2014 we finished our bibliographical database on history of Russia in World War I, it didn’t function for a while after the fire, but they have just restored it from a backup.  It’s available at http://www.inion.ru/I_publ.html and contains information about books and articles from the library of our institute, that is, about almost everything published in Russia and also about some foreign publications.  We’ll probably be able later to add information about books available at some other major libraries as well.  The interface is only in Russian, but it’s quite simple.  Search by author, title, annotation and keywords is available, there’s also a subject directory.  Each reference in the search results has a list of tags, each of them is a link to the list of corresponding references.  My role was mainly the communication to the programmers.

Web-conference “Russia in the First World War: New trends and research directions”

Michael

Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, German Historical Institute in Moscow and Centre for French and Russian studies in Moscow are going to organize an international web-conference “Russia in the First World War: New trends and research directions” in August–October.  The main goal of the conference is to discuss the modern approaches to the history of Russia’s participation in World War I, new viewpoints and interpretations, new research directions and their perspectives.  The official announcement can be seen here (in Russian) 🙂

A new section on history of the First World War has appeared on the website of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences

Michael

A new section on history of the First World War has appeared on the website of our institute: http://www.inion.ru/ww1 (in Russian). Now it contains preprints of a collection of abstracts and reviews Russia in the First World War: New Directions of Research and of a bibliographical index of literature of 1991–2011, that were prepared by a group of our researchers (including me ;-)) for a grant of the Russian Humanitarian Research Foundation, and also some abstracts that were published in recent years and were not in an open access in the Internet until now. I hope we’ll add some more information next year 🙂

A collection of reviews and library-research papers, “Fatherland War of 1812 in Modern Historiography”, has been published

Michael

A new collection of reviews and library-research papers, Fatherland War of 1812 in Modern Historiography (in Russian), prepared by our Department, has been published. You can buy it, for example, here: http://www.ani-books.ru/vcd-40-1-2478/goodsinfo.html (70 rubles).

I am going to post it here as soon as possible, my own materials are already posted.

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