Russia's Great War & Revolution Series

 

 

Series Information

 

Series: Russia’s Great War and Revolution
Editors: Anthony Heywood, David MacLaren McDonald, John W. Steinberg
DOI: 10.52500/RMBM3333
https://doi.org/10.52500/RMBM3333


For most of the twentieth century Russia’s Great War of 1914-18 was a historical afterthought. Overshadowed by the Bolsheviks’ revolution, the Civil War, and the consolidation of Soviet power, the First World War suffered from relative neglect within professional scholarship, as Soviet and Western experts alike focused their energy on explaining either the decline and fall of the autocracy or the origins and rise of Russian Communism.

Since the early 1990s, however, researchers in Russia and elsewhere have started to re-examine and re-evaluate the war’s significance and meaning in the history of that state and society. Encouraged by the opening of access to the Russian archives and freed from the ideological baggage of earlier historical debates, they have begun to investigate and reassess Russia’s Great War not simply as a prelude to “Red October,” but in its own right. Increasingly, the war is seen as the fulcrum which set into motion a chain of events that transformed Eurasia and much of the world. Instead of treating “1917” as a watershed moment in Russian and global history, many scholars now perceive a "continuum of crisis" between 1914 and the early 1920s.

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In the years preceding the one-hundredth anniversary of the First World War interest in Russia’s involvement became much more engaged not just among scholars, but also in public discussions among Russian leaders and citizens. The centennial of the war’s outbreak also challenged historians of Russia to raise public awareness of Russia's contributions to the Great War and of the war’s impacts on Russia. In response, Slavica’s series “Russia's Great War and Revolution” was conceived in 2006 as a long-term project to promote and disseminate such research. With over 250 contributing authors from across the globe and a projected total of 11 volumes with 20 individual books, it has become unquestionably the biggest multinational scholarly effort to mark the War’s centennial in relation to Russia. It seeks to provide readers of English with a broader understanding of the war’s place in Russian history and, as important, the place of Russia’s involvement in the history of the Great War and its consequences.

 

Volumes in Print

Vol. 1 Culture

Vol. 2 Empire and Nationalism

Vol. 3 The Home Front

Vol. 4 The Far East

Vol. 5 Military Affairs (Books 1, 2, & 3)

Vol. 6 Global Impacts

Vol. 7 Central Powers

Vol. 8 International Relations

Vol. 9 Personal Trajectories

Vol. 10 Women and Gender

 

Planned Volumes:

Vol. 5 Military Affairs (Books 4 & 5)

Vol. 11 Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine

 

Book Reviews

Review of Book 1 in Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, vol. 32.
 

 

 

Volume 11: Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–22
$44.95
978-0-89357-515-1
xviii + 543
2022

Long overlooked in the established literature, historical investigations of Russian Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine (STEM) have recently benefitted from newfound interest among academic specialists. Informed by a broad range of innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, historians from the US, Europe, and Russian Federation have turned their attention to exploring the myriad political, cultural, social, and economic factors that shaped...

$44.95
978-0-89357-441-3
xix + 376
2022

World War I, followed by four more years of revolution and civil conflict, exerted its power to both liberate and destroy in Russia on a scale unsurpassed elsewhere in Europe. It accelerated improvements in women’s status and employment opportunities, culminating with the gain of full political...

Volume 9: Personal Trajectories in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–22: Biographical Itineraries, Individual Experiences, Autobiographical Reflections
$44.95
978-0-89357-438-3
xvi + 378
2021

This volume investigates how the revolutionary events of 1917–21 shaped biographies both in Russia and Western Europe and how people tried to make sense of the political developments during these years in self-testimonies like diaries and memoirs. What was the impact of individuals on the course of the revolution? What do we know about the personal experiences during 1917 of...

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Oleg Budnitskii, Michael Hughes, and David MacLaren McDonald (eds.)

Volume 8 | Russian International Relations in War and Revolution, 1914–22. Book 2: Revolution and Civil War
$44.95
978-0-89357-437-6
xviii + 416
2021

Historians devote a great deal of attention to the diplomacy that led Russia into the Great War, but have tended to neglect the course of this diplomacy once the fighting erupted. This volume addresses that lacuna with a broad range of essays examining the foreign relations of the empire, as well as its republican and early Soviet successors, from the...

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Oleg Budnitskii, Michael Hughes, and David MacLaren McDonald (eds.)

Volume 8 | Russian International Relations in War and Revolution, 1914–22. Book 1: Origins and War, 1914–16
$44.95
978-0-89357-436-9
xx + 446
2021

Historians devote a great deal of attention to the diplomacy that led Russia into the Great War, but have tended to neglect the course of this diplomacy once the fighting erupted. This volume addresses that lacuna with a broad range of essays examining the foreign relations of the empire, as well as its republican and early Soviet successors, from the...

Volume 7: The Central Powers in Russia’s Great War and Revolution: Enemy Visions and Encounters, 1914–22
$44.95
978-0-089357-435-2
xix + 352
2020

This volume brings together the work of researchers in North America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Turkey, who are generating important, archivally based scholarship in their respective fields, languages, and nations of study. The larger goal of this volume is to sit in conversation with the others in this series that directly deal with Russia and its Great War and...

$44.95
978-0-89357-434-5
xvi + 377
2019

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was quickly perceived by both contemporaries and subsequent scholars as not merely a domestic event within the Russian Empire, but as a systemic crisis that fundamentally challenged the assumptions underpinning the existing international system. The revolution...

$44.95
978-0-89357-433-8
xvi + 452
2019

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was quickly perceived by both contemporaries and subsequent scholars as not merely a domestic event within the Russian Empire, but as a systemic crisis that fundamentally challenged the assumptions underpinning the existing international system. The revolution...

$44.95
978-0-89357-432-1
xvii + 569
2019

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was quickly perceived by both contemporaries and subsequent scholars as not merely a domestic event within the Russian Empire, but as a systemic crisis that fundamentally challenged the assumptions underpinning the existing international system. The revolution...

$44.95
978-0-89357-440-6
xiv + 320 pp
2022

This book--one of two covering the Russian Civil War in a volume on military affairs during Russia’s Great War and Revolution--explores institutions, social groups, and social conflict amid the chaos of the war that followed the Russian Revolution. Drawing on an international cohort of authors...

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