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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Russian Revolution"”.
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The Russian revolution and the factories of Petrograd, February 1917 to June 1918
… relationship to the labour movement during the revolution of 1917. Chapter 2 examines the position of workers within the tsarist factory, and chapter 3 the ways in which this position changed as a result of the overthrow of the autocracy in February 1917. Chapter 4 looks at the creation of the …
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Echoes of the Russian Revolution In Greek Wartime, Resistance, and Post-War Music
The Russian Revolution of October 1917, whether directly or indirectly, immediately or eventually, provoked social, political, and cultural transformations beyond the geographic and political borders of the Soviet Union. Anchored in the egalitarian ideals and aspirations of the Revolution, Soviet …
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Petrograd workers and workers' factory committees in 1917: an aspect of the social history of the Russian Revolution
<p>This study approaches the Russian revolution from a relatively unexplored perspective. It examines the social and political attitudes and actions of the industrial working class of Petrograd. This important section of the population is of crucial importance in understanding the dynamic of the …
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Sergei Kirov and the Struggle for Soviet Power in the Terek Region, 1917-1918
Western historiography of the Russian Revolution of 1917 contains few monographic studies of the outlying provinces of the Russian Empire. This dissertation examines revolutionary politics in the multi-national Terek Region, in the Northern Caucasus, from the February Revolution to the …
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Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia: Working-Class Drinking and Taverns in St. Petersburg, 1900--1929
… had begun to realize that the dynamics of the Russian revolution might be better understood if they devoted more attention to exploring the importance of 1917. This study contributes to the general reassessment of 1917 by focusing on ways in which the workers' revolution affected the everyday …
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Triumphant bowls of socialism: A cultural history of the Soviet toilet
… Soviet art, film, and literature from the 1917 Russian Revolution through the end of the twentieth century. It analyzes the toilet as art object, as trope, and as metaphor in order to identify the particularities of Russian artistic and literary movements throughout the twentieth century and …
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The Feminine Eros as the motive force of Russian history: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s intertextual dialogue with Marina Tsvetaeva
… to that end. In Solzhenitsyn, World War I, the Russian revolution of 1917, and the Stalinist tyranny of the 1930s-1950s are treated as catastrophes not only for the country as a whole or particular social and cultural strata, but more specifically, for women in a variety of life and personal …
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The Effective Use of the Tsarist Wealth by the Soviet Government.
… Nicholas II was the last in a long line of Russian rulers. At the time of his death, he was the wealthiest individual in the world. The Russian revolution brought about the massacre of Nicholas and his entire family. Following the revolution, the new Soviet leaders developed a series of …
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For Tomorrow They Will Not Recognize Us: The American Reception of Soviet Leftist Art
… beginning with the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution in 1917 through the Second World War, into the Cold War and the Vietnam War. The thesis is divided into three sections roughly aligning with these time periods and each anchored by an exhibition that typifies the feelings and …
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The Works of Mikhail A. Bulgakov: A Search for the Ideal Hero (Russia)
… the individual. In the brutal aftermath of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Bulgakov's need for a figure who would effectively uphold his own exacting value system became ever more compelling. His protagonists quickly became instruments of retaliation; to counteract society's consistent …
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J18: movements towards an ethico-aesthetic paradigm
… through three key events: the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution and May 1968. The search for a materialist understanding of political action feeds the act of drawing together empirical material from J18 by way of the data gathering process and the reciprocal development of a critical framework …
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All Stalin's men? Soldierly masculinities in the Soviet war effort, 1938-1945
… of national defense that stretched back to the Russian Revolution. The chapters of this dissertation explore the ways in which masculine values and priorities from the 1930s persisted in the Red Army despite the distinguished service of female combatants and divisions among male soldiers, …
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Dialectic of Disillusionment: The Political Thought of Ex-Communists, c. 1929 - c. 1939
… were torn between the apparent success of revolutionary Marxism and its equally apparent shortcomings. The narrative traces this dialectic with respect to (1) reflexive Marxist theory, (2) the place of revolution in history, and (3) narratives of political economy. It was not defeat by the …
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Divergence and Disagreement in Contemporary Anarchist Communism: Social Ecology and Anarchist Primitivism
… eclipse in the face of both the failure of the Russian Revolution, and the rise of the essentially a-theoretical industrial syndicalism that blossomed in many countries during the early decades of the twentieth century. With the expansion of the state and capitalism after WWII new forms of …
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A Regional Framework for Historical Developments in the Caucasus, 1917-1921
… history of the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Based on journalistic materials, archival documents and contemporary publications in Russian, Georgian, French and English, this chronological study demonstrates that political, military and ideological leaders in …
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The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I
Recognized as one of the most revolutionary labor unions in America during the early twentieth-century by the general public and the federal government, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) separated themselves from the rest of the labor unions because of their success in executing general …
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A Symbol for the Masses: Sergei Chakhotin and the Modern Crisis of Propaganda
… an intellectual biography of Sergei Chakhotin, a Russian biologist whose most famous work, <em>The Rape of the Masses </em>(1939), represented an insightful, pioneering analysis of modern propaganda as it arose during Europe’s “Age of Catastrophe” (1914-1945). In this work and others, Chakhotin …
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The Processes of Degeneration: The Spanish and Russian Revolutions Compared.
… dissertation is a comparative analysis of the Russian (November 1917) and Spanish (July 1936) revolutions. It examines how two different theoretical approaches to revolution—Marxism and Anarchism—operating under similar structural conditions (underdevelopment, civil war, and crisis) follow …
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