{"title":"Between Moscow, Warsaw and the Holy See: The Case of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz Amidst the Early Soviet Anti-Catholic Campaign","authors":"Olena Palko","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2136353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2136353","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a micro-history of Soviet anti-religious actions during the mid-1920s through a reconstruction of the investigation of Father Andrzej Fedukowicz and his forced collaboration with the Soviet secret services. In November 1924, Fedukowicz was forced to sign a letter to Pope Pius XI and a year later committed suicide to avoid the humiliation caused by his actions. This article reveals how elaborate the Soviet secret services’ techniques for dealing with uncontrolled religious allegiances had become during the seemingly religiously tolerant NEP era which replaced the overly repressive measures of the Civil War period. It aims to challenge the conventional impression of powerful and effective Soviet secret services. Detailed analysis of the process of fabrication used by the secret services shows how often the rudimentary methods of the secret police could easily threaten the success of the entire operation. In this regard, the limited results the secret services had achieved by relying on individual assets led to toughening of mass repression and a more aggressive anti-religious campaign after 1929.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"225 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46649861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sebastian Swanson, Venkatesh Sivaraman, Gevorg Grigoryan, Amy E Keating
{"title":"Tertiary motifs as building blocks for the design of protein-binding peptides.","authors":"Sebastian Swanson, Venkatesh Sivaraman, Gevorg Grigoryan, Amy E Keating","doi":"10.1002/pro.4322","DOIUrl":"10.1002/pro.4322","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite advances in protein engineering, the de novo design of small proteins or peptides that bind to a desired target remains a difficult task. Most computational methods search for binder structures in a library of candidate scaffolds, which can lead to designs with poor target complementarity and low success rates. Instead of choosing from pre-defined scaffolds, we propose that custom peptide structures can be constructed to complement a target surface. Our method mines tertiary motifs (TERMs) from known structures to identify surface-complementing fragments or \"seeds.\" We combine seeds that satisfy geometric overlap criteria to generate peptide backbones and score the backbones to identify the most likely binding structures. We found that TERM-based seeds can describe known binding structures with high resolution: the vast majority of peptide binders from 486 peptide-protein complexes can be covered by seeds generated from single-chain structures. Furthermore, we demonstrate that known peptide structures can be reconstructed with high accuracy from peptide-covering seeds. As a proof of concept, we used our method to design 100 peptide binders of TRAF6, seven of which were predicted by Rosetta to form higher-quality interfaces than a native binder. The designed peptides interact with distinct sites on TRAF6, including the native peptide-binding site. These results demonstrate that known peptide-binding structures can be constructed from TERMs in single-chain structures and suggest that TERM information can be applied to efficiently design novel target-complementing binders.</p>","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"32 1","pages":"e4322"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9088223/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91055465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Russia Learned to Talk: A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860–1930","authors":"Gabriella Safran","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2068796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2068796","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Revolutionary Russia (Vol. 35, No. 1, 2022)","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"96 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138507140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Does President Putin Object to Ukraine?","authors":"D. Saunders","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2075144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2075144","url":null,"abstract":"This article contrasts the picture which President Vladimir Putin paints of Ukraine with the vigour Ukrainians displayed at the time of the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–20.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45371043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Megan Swift. Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading Under Lenin and Stalin","authors":"F. Saddington","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2068789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2068789","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"171 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45257809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Boris Mironov’s New Interpretation of the Russian Revolution","authors":"M. Ellman","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2068768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2068768","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019 Boris Mironov published a book in St Petersburg that aimed to replace the plethora of interpretations of the Russian Revolution, and the Communist interpretation of the history of Imperial Russia, with alternative interpretations based on the modernization theory derived from Max Weber and developed by Talcott Parsons. They were combined with extensive statistical data to provide an all-embracing understanding of Russian developments from the 1860s to the present day. This article offers an evaluation of these new interpretations. integrating developments social use of newly uncovered data sources (e.g. anthropometric keenness to replace Marxism-Leninism by a quite different understanding of Russian history; optimistic evaluation of socio-econ-omic and political developments under late Tsarism. highly in Russia","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"153 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42417376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism","authors":"Ian Rapley","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2068773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2068773","url":null,"abstract":"poem composed for pre-schoolers. However, the overall methodology of the book is strong and applied consistently, which makes the argument convincing. The book will appeal to a wide range of scholars from different backgrounds. The visual and literary analysis will be of interest to art historians, literary scholars and researchers with a specialist interest in Soviet children’s books. The broader discussion of Soviet cultural policy will appeal to those with an interest in early Soviet history, who wish to enrich their understanding of the era further by exploring an intriguing aspect of literary and artistic production.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"173 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44526829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The Commander-in-Chief’s Parliament’: The Practice of Dual Power in the Petrograd Garrison in 1917","authors":"K. Tarasov","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2071755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2071755","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the functioning of military power in the Petrograd garrison during the revolution of 1917. This problem is viewed as part of a study of the dual power system. Formally, all power over the soldiers in Petrograd belonged to the Commander-in-Chief and the headquarters of the Petrograd Military District. However, the conditions of the revolution created a new contact body between the Commander and the Petrograd Soviet called the Commander's Council. This body solved a wide range of issues, but mainly controlled the withdrawal of military units from the city. The history of the Council demonstrates the periodisation of dual power from February to October. At the beginning, mistrust, then cooperation, then an attempt by the military command to take all power into their own hands, and, finally, the struggle of the Soviet for complete control over the garrison, which ended with the October uprising. The article concludes that dual power in this period of political instability reduced distrust in the decisions of the military authorities. However, it took an effort on both sides to keep the system in balance; attempts to assume complete power led to an open struggle.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"94 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41579160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crisis and Pragmatism: The Evolution of the Soviet Procurement Apparatus in Civil War-era Penza, 1919–1920","authors":"Peter Fraunholtz","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2065735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2065735","url":null,"abstract":"The twin challenges of grain procurement and military threat from the White armies in 1919 and 1920 and how they were handled by provincial soviet officials are essential to understanding the survival and nature of Soviet Russia. The purpose of this article is to use a local study to examine in detail how the 1919-20 Soviet procurement campaigns were conducted in the localities. The focus here is Penza, a central ‘producing' province, located on the eastern edge of the central Black Earth region yet at a distance from the Volga and outlying provinces where ferocity, loyalty to the revolution, and personal power prevailed in procurement and government control was weak. The Bolsheviks routinely concentrated armed force and capable personnel in one crisis area after another for short-term military or procurement purposes. Yet, this study finds that for Penza resources such as armed food brigades and rank-and-file communists became scarce as these were mobilized for work in newly occupied regions where procurement burdens became more significant. Procurement officials in Penza faced the necessity of near constant pragmatic adjustments in their engagement with their subordinates as well as peasant producers as circumstances and access to resources changed frequently. By tracing the local apparatus's history, a clearer picture emerges of the obstacles and adjustments involved in administering the Soviet grain monopoly behind the lines of the Civil War. In this way, we add to our knowledge of the challenges that shaped the Bolsheviks' efforts to resolve the grain crisis and survive the Civil War.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"110 - 130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44134702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}