These pages contain some profiles of prominent Russian Revolution historians. They include some brief biographical information, a list of texts the historian has written or contributed to, a summary of their historiographical positions and a few quotations. These profiles have been written and compiled...
revolutionOctober armed revoltBolshevikMenshevikSocialist-RevolutionaryCadetRussian Sciences Academy History Institute (Leningrad region) is famous for its researchers who studied Russian revolution of the 1917. The article considers the process of their formation.Sobolev, G. L...
The greatest historian is a difficult choice but my vote goes toChristopher Hillfor his work on the 17th century and the English Revolution. He transformed the way people thought about the Civil Wars and his output was astonishing. And yes I was trained by a Marxist historian (the late Gwyn...
While the structures of the Marxist history cultures of the communist parties are known in their outlines on the national level, little is known about their transnational relationships, although research on contemporary history during the last years has found that the relations between the European com...
s theory of historical materialism, which asserts that society is defined by economic conditions and that “all history is the history of class struggle”. Marxist historians usually focus on the imbalanced relationship between wealth, power and labour, as well as the conditions and exploitation of...
Silly as it was, it actually presented the space of the temple more clearly than slides could." Craig Eliason, Rutgers University Death on the Nile -- 1978 "What about that Agatha Christie movie in which the protagonists spend a day climbing up the stone blocks of a pyramid in Egypt?" ...
to share some thoughts on this here because I believe this matters for the history of economics at least in two respects – 1) as a fragment in the (still largely unwritten) history of recent economics in Russia and beyond; and 2) as a view on the development of our discipline as such...
Wilson, NatashaAgora
99\nThe 1905 Revolution...Pages 100-106\nThe Bolsheviks and the Pre-War International...Pages 107-117\nConflict on the Historical Front...Pages 118-125\nStalin's Intervention...Pages 126-136\nEpilgue...Pages 137-141\nConclusion...Pages 142-144\nBack Matter...Pages 145-194...
Decommunisation, like derussianisation and domination of the Ukrainian centrism in Historiography, is focused on restatement of the truth, maintenance of a new paradigm in the history of Ukraine's subjectivity, as well as its state personality and integrity. Especially important it is in the ...