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 ...
it can be difficult to study and fully understand their effects. TheRussian Revolutionoccurred almost a century ago – but its effects are still reverberating
After coming to power in theRussian Revolution of 1917, theBolsheviksgave historians of the origins of World War I abonanzaby publishing the secret dispatches of thetsaristgovernment, which for the first time revealed the web of alliances and secret agreements that had allowed a Balkan incident ...
One of Carlyle’s contemporaries was French historianFrançois Mignet(1796-1884). Born in the dissident Vendée region, Mignet was the son of a locksmith and was raised in an atmosphere ofbourgeoisliberalism. He trained as a lawyer but turned to history, beginning a study of the revolution in...
the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century. Unique in breadth and scope, History's Locomotives offers a new interpretation of the origins and history of socialism as well as the meanings of the Russian Revolution, the rise of the Soviet regime, and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet....
Unfortunately, virtually the whole training of historians is devoted to reading written texts, so that skill is hypertrophied, while the ability to interpret material objects is underdeveloped. When historians can, for example, accurately describe how the machines of the early Industrial Revolution ...
–workersgainclassconsciousness–proletarianrevolutiontodeposethecapitalistdictatorshipofthebourgeoisie,–dictatorshipoftheproletariatestablished–themeansofproductioncanberealized.•Communism:aclasslessandstatelesssociety.Theproletariat无产阶级 •“thoseindividualswhoselltheirlabourpower,andwho,inthecapitalistmodeof...
Historians try to identify the key principles feeding law practice in the context of a more general change in values of Russian society, overcoming the traditional dichotomy between the theory and practice of law. Key topics and priorities of this research direction show the close relationship betwee...
Modern discourses of history and nation arrived in Central Asia at the turn of the twentieth century, and they captured the imagination of a nascent intellectual elite enmeshed in broader networks of an Islamic modernity. These discourses were then transformed by the Russian revolution. The political...
A much grimmer aspect of modernization was highlighted byTheodore H. Von Laue (1987) inThe World Revolution of Westernization. Von Laue focused on the stresses imposed on the rest of the world by Westernization, which he saw as the root cause ofcommunism,Nazism, dictatorships in developing count...