title: Revolutionary Russia in American Eyes
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metadata.value: Foglesong, David S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T11:00:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-09-21T11:00:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Foglesong D. S. Revolutionary Russia in American Eyes. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 3, pp. 957–971.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.319
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14926
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: To mark the centenary of the Russian revolutions of 1917, American publishers released several
  new histories in 2017, including a massive study by the distinguished scholar Laura Engelstein
  and a lengthy account by the prolific author Sean McMeekin. This article develops a
  critical perspective on the books by Engelstein and McMeekin by setting them in the context
  of other scholarship and by contrasting them to the views presented by American witnesses
  of the Russian revolutions. The review essay focuses primarily on three major issues: the nature
  of the February Revolution; the relationship between the Bolsheviks and Germany; and
  foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War. It argues that there are serious problems in
  McMeekin’s and Engelstein’s treatments of those issues. Their presentation of the revolution of
  February 1917 as a political event rather than a social transformation, McMeekin’s depiction
  of the Bolsheviks as pawns of Imperial Germany, and both authors’ downplaying of American
  interventions in Russia ignore the views of Americans who were in Petrograd at the time, and
  disregard much important scholarship published since the 1960s. By drawing on those eyewitness
  accounts and historical studies, this article reminds scholars of how the February Revolution
  both reflected and stimulated a profound change in many Russians’ ways of thinking,
  how Americans as well as Germans funded propaganda campaigns in Russia in 1917, and how
  the United States intervened in the Russian civil war in several other ways, with the ultimate
  objective of restoring a democratic or at least a non-Bolshevik government.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Americans
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: United States
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intervention
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Wilson
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Revolutionary Russia in American Eyes
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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