March 1917 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr; Schwartz, Marian
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution,
the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel
Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic work March
1917 , Node III, ...Book 1, of The Red Wheel .
The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn's magnum opus about the
Russian Revolution. Solzhenitsyn tells this story in the form of a
meticulously researched historical novel, supplemented by newspaper
headlines of the day, fragments of street action, cinematic
screenplay, and historical overview. The first two nodes- August
1914 and November 1916 -focus on Russia's crises and
recovery, on revolutionary terrorism and its suppression, on the
missed opportunity of Pyotr Stolypin's reforms, and how the surge
of patriotism in August 1914 soured as Russia bled in World War
I.
March 1917 -the third node-tells the story of the
Russian Revolution itself, during which not only does the Imperial
government melt in the face of the mob, but the leaders of the
opposition prove utterly incapable of controlling the course of
events. The action of book 1 (of four) of March 1917 is
set during March 8-12. The absorbing narrative tells the stories of
more than fifty characters during the days when the Russian Empire
begins to crumble. Bread riots in the capital, Petrograd, go
unchecked at first, and the police are beaten and killed by mobs.
Efforts to put down the violence using the army trigger a mutiny in
the numerous reserve regiments housed in the city, who kill their
officers and rampage. The anti-Tsarist bourgeois opposition,
horrified by the violence, scrambles to declare that it is
provisionally taking power, while socialists immediately create a
Soviet alternative to undermine it. Meanwhile, Emperor Nikolai II
is away at military headquarters and his wife Aleksandra is
isolated outside Petrograd, caring for their sick children.
Suddenly, the viability of the Russian state itself is called into
question.
The Red Wheel has been compared to Tolstoy's War
and Peace , for each work aims to narrate the story of an era
in a way that elevates its universal significance. In much the same
way as Homer's Iliad became the representative account of
the Greek world and therefore the basis for Greek civilization,
these historical epics perform a parallel role for our modern
world.
One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia
and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube,
from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a
...springboard for future military operations against Constantinople.
Russia on the Danube describes the divergent interests and uneasy
cooperation between the Russian officials and the Moldavian and
Wallachian nobility in a key period between 1812 and 1834. Victor
Taki's meticulous examination of the plans and memoranda composed
by Russian administrators and the Romanian elite underlines the
crucial consequences of this encounter. The Moldavian and
Wallachian nobility used the Russian-Ottoman rivalry in order to
preserve and expand their traditional autonomy. The comprehensive
institutional reforms born out of their interaction with the tsar's
officials consolidated territorial statehood on the lower Danube,
providing the building blocks of a nation state.
The main conclusion of the book is that although Russian policy
was driven by self-interest, and despite the Russophobia among a
great part of the Romanian intellectuals, this turbulent period
significantly contributed to the emergence, several decades later,
of modern Romania.
Featuring a number of distinguished essays by internationally known Russian cultural historians Boris Uspenskij and Victor Zhivov, this collection encompasses various ground-breaking works appearing ...in English for the first time. Focusing on several of the most interesting and problematic aspects of Russia’s cultural development, these essays examine the survival and reconceptualization of Russia’s past in later systems, and some of the key transformations of Russian cultural consciousness. This volume contains important examples of cultural semiotics and indispensable contributions to the history of Russian civilization.
At the end of Febraury 1917 the tsarist government of Russia collapsed in a whirlwind of demonstrations by the workers and soldier of Petrograd. Ziva Galili tells how the moderate socialists, or ...Mensheviks, then attempted to prevent the conflicts between the newly formed liberal Provisional Government (the "bourgeois" camp) and the Petrograd Soviet (the "democractic" camp) from escalating into civil war--and how, in October of that same year, they finally failed. Placing narrative history in a broad social and political context, she creates an absorbing study of idealists who tried in vain to reflect as well as to contain the unfolding revolutionary process.
Galili focuses on the Menshevik Revolutionary Defensists who became the leaders of the Petrograd Soviet and of the all-Russian network of soviets. She examines Menshevik political strategy as well as the three-way interaction between Mnesheviks (both in the Soviet and the Provisional Government), workers, and indsutrialists. She emphasizes the perpceptual and interactive aspects of the analysis of revolutions: the relations between social realities, perceptions of realities, and the formulation of political strategies; the roles of rhetorics and societal conflict in shaping social identities; and the impact of political authority and state institutions on the terms of social interaction.
Ziva Galili is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is coeditor and annotator of The Making of Three Russian Revolutionsaries: Voice from the Menshevik Past (Cambridge).
Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Originally published in 1989.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The book establishes marriage as a pervasive idiom for the construction of collective identity in Syria, which is appropriated by individuals, sects, states and intergovernmental organizations alike. ...Its conclusions are relevant to scholars of Middle East studies, sectarianism, anthropology and politics.”
Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of Professor Andrei Zorin’s seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in ...English, including “The People’s War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807” and “Holy Alliances: V. A. Zhukovskii’s Epistle ‘To Emperor Alexander’ and Christian Universalism.”
"War and Enlightenment in Russia explores how members of the military during the reign of Catherine II reconciled Enlightenment ideas about the equality and moral worth of all humans with the Russian ...reality based on serfdom, a world governed by autocracy, absolute respect for authority, and subordination to seniority. While there is a sizable literature about the impact of the Enlightenment on government, economy, manners, and literature in Russia, no analytical framework that outlines its impact on the military exists. Eugene Miakinkov's research addresses this gap and challenges the assumption that the military was an unadaptable and vertical institution. Using archival sources, military manuals, essays, memoirs, and letters, the author demonstrates how the Russian militaires philosophes operationalized the Enlightenment by turning thought into reality."--
As ballistic missile technology proliferates, and as ballistic missile defenses are deployed by both the Russian Federation and the United States, it is increasingly important for these two countries ...to seek ways to reap the benefits of systems that can protect their own national security interests against limited missile attacks from third countries without undermining the strategic balance that the two governments maintain to ensure stability. Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability examines both the technical implications of planned missile defense deployments for Russian and U.S. strategic deterrents and the benefits and disadvantages of a range of options for cooperation on missile defense.
