The Russian Revolution As a Tourist Attraction
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2017.183
Abstract: Looking at Soviet guidebooks from the 1920s to the 1960s, this essay argues that 1905 and 1917 revolutionary places as “tourist attractions” were mostly tangential to the tourist experience, although one could argue that the… read more here.
Keywords: revolution tourist; tourist; revolution; russian revolution ... See more keywords
Celebrating Red October: A Story of the Ten Anniversaries of the Russian Revolution, 1927–2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00806765.2018.1447820
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay seeks to shed light on how the constantly evolving Soviet system shaped and reshaped the myth of Red October and how post-Soviet ruling elites treated the memory surrounding the 1917 Russian Revolution… read more here.
Keywords: october story; celebrating red; russian revolution; october ... See more keywords
Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: mob justice and police in Petrograd
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DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2018.1513981
Abstract: balanced in its conclusions. It is a significant contribution to the literature, and suggests ways in which we can re-think legality in the Russian Empire: a useful final chapter places the case into the wider… read more here.
Keywords: revolution mob; crime punishment; mob justice; justice police ... See more keywords
Lessons from the Russian Revolution and Its Fallout: An Epistemological Approach*
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DOI: 10.1080/08854300.2018.1427934
Abstract: Articulating the past historically does not mean recognizing it “the way it really was”. It means appropriating a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger. ... The danger threatens both the content… read more here.
Keywords: lessons russian; danger; fallout epistemological; epistemological approach ... See more keywords
Nikolai Berdyaev on the “Spirits of the Russian Revolution”
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DOI: 10.1080/10611967.2017.1370297
Abstract: This article analyzes Nikolai Berdyaev’s (1874–1948) ideas concerning the spiritual origins of the 1917 Russian revolution. The philosopher believed that its sources were “demons” living in the Russian national spirit, discovered and awakened in the… read more here.
Keywords: nikolai berdyaev; spirits russian; berdyaev; russian revolution ... See more keywords
1917–2017: The Geopolitical Legacy of the Russian Revolution
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DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2017.1308107
Abstract: ABSTRACT The essays collected in this forum discuss the geopolitical legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, one of the most momentous political events of the twentieth century. From a range of different academic disciplines… read more here.
Keywords: revolution 1917; russian revolution; legacy russian; geopolitical legacy ... See more keywords
‘The Russian Revolution has not yet taken place’: British views of the Soviet economy between the nineteen-fifties and nineteen-seventies
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DOI: 10.1111/1468-2281.12282
Abstract: This article examines British officials' and ministers' attitudes towards the Soviet Union's economy in the post-Second World War era. In the nineteen-fifties and early nineteen-sixties, public and some expert commentary posited Soviet economic ‘success’ based… read more here.
Keywords: taken place; revolution yet; nineteen fifties; yet taken ... See more keywords