دانلود کتاب Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921

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Contents
Contributors
List of maps
Acknowledgements and note on transliteration and dates
Part I. Introduction
The Revolution and its Historians: The Critical Companion in Context
Content, scope, contributors
Controversy over the revolution
The collapse o£ Marxism-Leninism and the resurgence of the right
The impact of post-modernism
A landmark
Further reading
Interpreting Revolutionary Russia
Imperial Russia and the revolutionary experience
Ideology as explanation and the representation of social identity
Locations of power and the question of the state
The economy as ‘instituted process’
The significations of October
Civil wars and the tragedy of competitive impossibilities
Part II. The Revolution As Event
Russia, Europe and World War I
Further reading
The February Revolution
The impact of World War I
Revolt
Formation of the Petrograd Soviet
Formation of the Duma Committee
The abdication of Nicholas II and end of the counterrevolution
The abdication of Grand Duke Mikhail and the formation of the Provisional Government
Conclusion
Further reading
The April Crisis
Miliukov’s diplomatic note
Social confrontation
The political crisis
Further reading
The Breakdown of the Imperial Army in 1917
The army in the February revolution
The April Crisis and its aftermath at the front
The June offensive
Polarization and radicalization: the Kornilov fiasco
The army in October
Further reading
The October Revolution
Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, April-July
The aftermath of the July Days
Preparations for October
Divisions within the leadership
The Bolsheviks come to power and the Second Congress of Soviets
The consolidation of one-party rule
Further reading
The Civil War
Introduction
The civil war and the democratic anti-Bolsheviks, October 1917 to November 1918
The civil war and the Whites, November 1918 to November 1920
The character of the civil war
Further reading
Foreign Intervention
Western and Soviet historiography
Espionage, propaganda, financial aid, counterpropaganda and covert action, February 1917-July 1918
Military intervention in North Russia, Siberia and South Russia, 1918-1919
Financial and military aid to anti-Bolshevik forces, 1919-1920: Russian propaganda and Western opinion
Impact and legacy of intervention
Further reading
The Tenth Congress of the Communist Party and the Transition to NEP
The party crisis: bureaucratization and disunity
NEP
Further reading
Part III. Actors and the Question of Agency
Chernov
Further reading
Kerensky
Further reading
Lenin
Further reading
Martov
Further reading
Miliukov
Further reading
Nicholas II
Further reading
Spiridonova
Further reading
Trotsky
Further reading
Tsereteli
Further reading
The White Generals
Further reading
Part IV. Parties, Movements, Ideologies
Anarchists
Further reading
The Bolshevik Party
Further reading
The Communist Opposition
Introduction
The issue of coalition, Brest-Litovsk and the Left Communists
The military opposition and the Democratic Centralists
The ‘Workers’ Opposition’ and the trade-union controversy
The Tenth Party Congress and the suppression of the opposition
Background and philosophy of the opposition
The failure of the opposition
Previous and subsequent parallels
Further reading
The Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets)
Further reading
The Mensheviks in 1917
Before the revolution
Rethinking the narrative of 1917
The Mensheviks and the role of the state
From democrats to statists
Further reading
The Socialist-Revolutionary Party (SRs), 1917-1920
Further reading
Part V. Institutions and Institutional Cultures
The Left Socialist Revolutionaries, 1917-1918
Further reading
The Soviet State
Further reading
The Cheka
Further reading
The Constituent Assembly
Further reading
Education, Schools and Student Life
Schools
Higher education
Further reading
Factory Committees
The origins of the factory committees
The first phase of factory committee activity
The radicalization of workers’ control of production
The politics of workers’ control
The relationship of the factory committees to the trade unions
Workers’ militias and Red Guards
The Bolsheviks in power
Further reading
Family, Marriage and Relations Between the Sexes
Bolshevik theory and policy on the family
Marriage and divorce
Relations between the sexes
Further reading
Peasant Armies
Introduction
Peasant armies against the Whites
Peasant armies against the Reds
Further reading
The Press and the Revolution
Further reading
The Provisional Government
Further reading
The Red Army
Early Bolshevik military performance
The origins of the Red Army
The choice of the ‘regular’ army
Civil war
The party and the military
The Red Army overreaches itself
Peace
Further reading
The Russian Orthodox Church
From February to October 1917
The impact of October
The civil war period
Historiography
Further reading
The Soviets
Further reading
Town and City Government
Imperial Russia
Under the Provisional Government
After October
Further reading
The Trade Unions
Trade-union traditions
Trade unions in 1917
Trade unions under Communist rule
Trade unions outside Communist rule
Conclusions
Further reading
The Village Commune and Rural Government
Introduction: the commune and the problem of rural government
Rural government under the old regime
The village revolution o£ 1917
The peasant soviets and the emergence of the Bolshevik dictatorship
The unsolved problem of rural government
Further reading
The White Armies
Introduction
The Volunteer Army and the Armed Forces of South Russia
The Russian Army of General Wrangel
The Russian Army of Admiral Kolchak
The smaller White armies
Conclusion
Further reading
Part VI. Social Groups, Identities, Culture and the Question of Consciousness
The Aristocracy and Gentry
Further reading
Bolshevik Cultural Policy
Further reading
The Cossacks
The Cossack tradition
The Cossack voiska in 1914
The Cossack frontoviki
The struggle for Cossack autonomy
The Cossacks and the Bolshevik regime
Conclusion
Further reading
The Emigration
Exodus
Settling the homeless
Life abroad
Politics
Intellectual and cultural life
Returnism
Further reading
The Intelligentsia
Controversies over definitions
The intelligentsia and the revolution of 1917
Continuities and discontinuities in the intelligentsia tradition
Further reading
The Lower Middle Strata in 1917
Further reading
Officers
Further reading
The Peasantry
Introduction
The peasantry on the eve o£ the revolution
The peasant revolution, 1917-18
The peasantry in the civil war
The peasant Brest-Litovsk
Further reading
War and population displacement
Refugee resettlement and relief
Refugees and the ‘humanitarian narrative’
Refugees and gender
The ‘rights’ of refugees: outsiders or insiders?
Refugees and the construction of ‘national’ identity
Refugees after revolution
Concluding remarks
Further reading
The Role of Ritual and Symbols
Before the revolution
The February revolution
Soviet symbols
Soviet festivals
Further reading
Russian Industrialists and Revolution
The pre-war decades
Industrialists and war
Industrialists and revolution
Industrialists and the Soviet state
Conclusions
Further reading
Soldiers and Sailors
World War and revolution
The civil war
Conclusion
Further reading
Women and the Gender Question
Defining the subject
The situation of women on the eve of the revolution
Women’s participation in the revolution and the civil war
The consequences of the revolution
Future research
Further reading
Workers
Size, composition and the question of the peasant-worker
The question of class rule
Material conditions, wage rates and rationing
The fate of the eight-hour day
Unemployment
‘Workers’ control’
Strikes and the decline in labour discipline
Working-class attitudes towards the new regime
Further reading
Part VII. Economic Issues and Problems of Everyday Life
Grain Monopoly and Agricultural Transformation
Bolshevik axioms
Grain monopoly
The end of the razverstka system
Agricultural policy
Conclusion
Further Reading
Problems Of Social Welfare and Everyday Life
Further reading
War Communism
Ideology
Anti-market approach
The social base of the Communist Party
Communist takeover of the state
Industrial management
Legacies: structures and plans
Coercion
Economic organization
War communism and command economy
Further reading
Part VIII. Nationality and Regional Questions
Nationality Policies
Further reading
The Revolution in the Baltics: Estonia and Latvia
Further reading
The Revolution in Central Asia
The revolution in the Kazakh Steppe
The revolution in Turkestan
The assertion of Soviet control over the Kazakh Steppe and the reconquest of Turkestan
National demarcation and Soviet rule
Further reading
The Jews
The social setting
Political tendencies
Economic circumstances
Official policy
Impact of World War I
The Jewish response to the February revolution
The Jewish response to the October revolution
The Jews in the Ukraine
Jewish cultural life
Summary
Further reading
The Revolution and Civil War in Siberia
Siberia before 1917: from conquest to revolution
Siberia: February 1917-May 1918
The ‘democratic counterrevolution’: May-November 1918
The regime of Kolchak: November 1918-February 1920
Far Eastern finale:
February 1919-October 1922
Conclusion
Further reading
The Revolution in Transcaucasia
Further reading
Ukraine
The February revolution and the Rada
The October revolution and the declaration of independence
The Hetmanate
The Directory and the failure of united Ukraine
Conclusion
Further reading
Glossary and abbreviations
Index of names
Index of subjects