title: A history for the centenary of the Russian revolution
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metadata.value: Sablin, Ivan
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metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:50:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:50:57Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Sablin I. V. A history for the centenary of the Russian revolution. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 638–644.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.314
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8452
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This review essay focuses on the new monograph by S. A. Smith Russia in Revolution: An Empire
  in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017). As a leading expert in the social history
  of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Smith provides a comprehensive political, social, and cultural
  narrative of one of the central events in the global history of the twentieth century. Directed at a
  general readership, the book offers an excellent overview of existing Russian and Western scholarship,
  outlines the main course of events, introduces most important actors, and contains thought-provoking
  conclusions about the revolution. As seen from the title, Smith takes a longish view on the political
  rupture and includes a comprehensive analysis of social and political life of the Russian Empire, a
  brief overview of the First Russian Revolution (1905–1907) and the economic and political crisis of
  the First World War (1914–1918) before discussing the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil
  War, and the period of the New Economic Policy (NEP). The book’s conclusion is a comprehensive
  essay attempting to comprehend the revolution and its consequences as a whole. As a nuanced social,
  political, and cultural history, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 outlines the
  Revolution of 1917 as a tectonic shift which cannot be reduced to a simple change of the elites in the
  Russian imperial formation. Smith’s brilliant work will be invaluable for the students of history, both
  in Russia and abroad, and all those who are interested in global history in general and the Russian
  Revolution in particular. Refs 27.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The review essay was prepared within the framework of the Basic Research Program at the National
  Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), project “Transformation of Regimes of Governing
  Diversity: Continuity of Imperial Practices and Ruptures of Post-Imperial Political Imaginaries in the History
  of Russia” (TZ-51) in 2017, and supported within the framework of a subsidy granted to the HSE by
  the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Global Competitiveness Program.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: February Revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: October Revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: socialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: NEP
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Social History
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A history for the centenary of the Russian revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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