The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution

Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia’s revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first reference point for anyone wishing to learn more about the changes which took place in Russia between 1917 and 1921 and subsequently the 20th century.

Split into six sections covering political crises, politicians and parties, social groups, identities, regions and peoples, and civil war, the volume covers the collapse of Tsarism and the February Revolution, the emergence of the Provisional Government, and major historical figures such as Lenin, Kerensky and the Socialist Revolutionary leader Viktor Chernov. It also explores the events surrounding the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917, the first year of Soviet Government until the Bolshevik dictatorship was established, and the impact on Russia of the subsequent civil war. The focus is broader than these issues of high politics, however, since this handbook also considers events in the provinces as well as revolutionary Petrograd, and examines the social impact of the revolution in terms of class, gender, age and culture.

Geoffrey Swain is Honorary Professor Emeritus and former Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is the author of several books, including A Short History of the Russian Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Charlotte Alston is Professor in History at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of several books, including Tolstoy and his Disciples (2013).

Michael C. Hickey is Professor of History at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the editor of Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution (2011), a 2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and Winner of the 2012 ALA RUSA Outstanding Reference Work Award.

Boris Kolonitskii is Professor of History at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia and Head Research Fellow at the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. He is the co-author, along with Orlando Figes, of Interpreting the Russian Revolution (1999).

Franziska Schedewie is Senior Lecturer of Modern History at the University of Jena, Germany. She is a co-editor of The Russian Revolution Of 1905 In Transcultural Perspective Identities, Peripheries, And The Flow Of Ideas (2013).