{"title":"Stalin and the Silences of the Official History of His Role in the Prerevolutionary Bolshevik Underground","authors":"D. Brandenberger","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2066056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2066056","url":null,"abstract":"At the height of his cult of personality in 1938, Stalin deleted almost all references to his prerevolutionary career within the Bolshevik underground from the canonical Short Course on party history. Recognizing the challenge that this editing poses to traditional understandings of the personality cult, this article analyzes Stalin’s excisions from this all-important text and then looks to recent research by Ronald Grigor Suny, Stephen Kotkin, Erik van Ree, Ol’ga Edel’man and others in order to explain the peculiar nature of this official historical narrative.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"15 - 31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46245589","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":"Science, State, and Culture: Decorations for the 1967 October Festival","authors":"Evgeniya Yarkova","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2080169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2080169","url":null,"abstract":"The October Revolution festival, introduced as a public holiday in Soviet Russia in 1919, was always both a reflection of the contemporary political situation and an instrument to impose necessary ideological concepts. This article focuses on the festival designs completed by the experimental group from Moscow, Dvizhenie, for the fiftieth anniversary. It analyses the focus of state propaganda in 1967, which was centred on placing space exploration and technological advancement within the perspective of the entire history of revolutionary commemorations, and explores the state of freedom of expression and the nature of ideological crisis in the period.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"131 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46687203","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":"Making Ukraine Soviet. Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin","authors":"C. Gilley","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2068776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2068776","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"167 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49588647","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":"Stalin, Falsifier in Chief: E. H. Carr and the Perils of Historical Research Introduction","authors":"R. Suny","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2065740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2065740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"11 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42511322","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":"A Useful Enemy: General Nosovich in the ‘Memory Wars’","authors":"A. Ganin","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2062656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2062656","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the image of General Anatolii Nosovich in the ‘memory wars’ following Russia’s Civil War. Nosovich turned out to be a White agent in the Red Army who opposed the future Soviet leader, Stalin, in Tsaritsyn in the summer of 1918. Yet the image of Nosovich was widely used in the ideological struggle to exalt Stalin. Even after Stalin’s death, his image continued to be used in debates between Stalinists and anti-Stalinists. Statesmen, historians, writers, and directors mentioned Nosovich as they argued endlessly over the true role of Stalin in the history of Russia.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"49 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48325523","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":"A Local Face of Revolution: The Confrontation of the Dagestani ‘Ulamā’ over Najm al-Dīn Gotsinsky’s Imamate and the Russian Revolutions of 1917","authors":"Naira Sahakyan","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2071138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2071138","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates debates between religious leaders in Dagestan during the Russian Revolution on the state-building project of imamate. Analysing the attempt of a group of religious leaders led by Najm al-Dīn Gotsinsky to reestablish the Dagestani imamate, the article situates that struggle within the broader context of the Russian Revolution, where the Whiles and the Reds were fighting for the power. As is demonstrated, debates over the imamate hindered any possible consolidation of the Dagestani religious leadership against the Bolsheviks and even, in some cases, pushed them to cooperate with the Bolsheviks, facilitating the latter's victory in Dagestan.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"72 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46669726","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":"E. H. Carr’s Revolutionary Personalities","authors":"Timothy K. Blauvelt","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2022.2072699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2022.2072699","url":null,"abstract":"Despite his diminished standing as a public intellectual, E. H. Carr (1892–1982) retains a begrudging respect among historians of the Soviet Union and the Russian Revolution. In fact, his nuanced and subjective philosophy of history and commitment to dispassionate empirical research laid a foundation for the revisionist approaches to Soviet history that have since become mainstream in the field. Yet despite his position in the historiographical genealogy, Carr’s actual writings on the history of the USSR often go overlooked. In volume 5 of his History of Soviet Russia, Carr included five character sketches of the leading Bolshevik personalities of the 1920s – Zinoviev, Kamenev, Bukharin, Trotsky, and Stalin. Among these, Carr’s sketch on Stalin gained notoriety as a statement of the ‘circumstantial argument’ that the ‘revolutions from above’ resulted from larger historical forces and that Stalin himself was essentially irrelevant. This essay explores how both the weaknesses and the strengths in Carr’s particular interpretation of Stalin derived from his philosophy of history, and how once liberated from the demands of a strictly causal explanatory framework, Carr’s sketches of the other personalities are an example of a substantial and influential contribution to the field that drew attention to the diversity of outlooks among the leading early Bolsheviks.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"35 1","pages":"32 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49570330","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":"An Intellectual Biography of N. A. Rozhkov: Life in a Bell Jar","authors":"Francis King","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2021.1984696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2021.1984696","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"34 1","pages":"299 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44495198","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":"Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism: Complexities, Contradictions, and Controversies","authors":"J. Henry","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2021.1997448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2021.1997448","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"34 1","pages":"308 - 311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47072831","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":"Leon Trotsky and Soviet Historiography of the Russian Revolution (1918–1931)","authors":"J. D. White","doi":"10.1080/09546545.2021.1983938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2021.1983938","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the part played by Leon Trotsky in establishing the principles on which Soviet historical writing on the Russian Revolution was carried on, including the practice of making programmatic versions of events universally obligatory. It also investigates the manner in which the respective remits of the two institutions, Istpart and the Institute of Red Professors (IKP), influenced the way the history of the 1917 revolution was presented in the 1920s. The article looks at how Istpart and IKP reacted to the anti-Trotsky campaign and at the debt Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution owes to materials produced by the two institutions. It is in the light of the interaction of Trotsky’s History and Soviet historiography that Stalin’s 1931 letter to Proletarskaia revoliutsiia is to be understood.","PeriodicalId":42121,"journal":{"name":"Revolutionary Russia","volume":"34 1","pages":"276 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47529071","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}