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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452339303321

Titolo

The Russian Revolution of 1905 : centenary perspectives / / edited by Jonathan D. Smele and Anthony Heywood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-203-00208-3

1-299-45861-0

1-134-25330-3

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (586 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in modern European history ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

SmeleJon

HeywoodAnthony

Disciplina

947.08/3

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Russia History Revolution, 1905-1907

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First issued in paperback 2012.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on style; 1. Introduction; 2. Psychohistorical approaches to 1905 radicalism; 3. 1905: The view from the provinces; 4. The 1905 Revolution in Russia's Baltic provinces; 5. Finland in 1905: The political and social history of the revolution; 6. Revolution and revolt in the Manchurian armies, as perceived by a future leader of the White movement; 7. Retrospectively revolting: Kazan Tatar 'conspiracies' during the 1905 Revolution

8. Peasant protest and peasant violence in 1905: Voronezh province, Ostrogozhskii uezd9. Jews and revolution in Kharkiv: How one Ukrainian city escaped a pogrom in 1905; 10. Socialists, liberals and the Union of Unions in Kyiv during the 1905 Revolution: An engineer's perspective; 11. Kadet domination of the First Duma and its limits; 12. Lenin and the 1905 Revolution; 13. Leon Trotsky and 1905; 14. The 1905 Revolution on Tyneside; Index

Sommario/riassunto

2005 marks the centenary of Russia's 'first revolution' - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the 'Bloody Sunday' massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept



across the Russian Empire, and it proved a crucial turning point in the demise of the autocracy and the rise of a revolutionary socialism that would shape Russia, Europe and the international system for the rest of the twentieth century.The centenary of the Revolution has prompted scholars to review an