Volume 3: Russia's Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914-22: Book 1 Russia's Revolution in Regional Perspective

This book presents a series of essays from leading international scholars that expand our understanding of the Russian Revolution through the detailed study of specific localities. Answering the important question of how locality affected the revolutionary experience, these essays provide regional snapshots from across Russia that highlight important themes of the revolution. Drawing on new empirical research from local archives, the authors contribute to the larger historiographic debates on the social and political meaning of the Russian revolution as well as the nature of the Russian state. Russia s Revolution in Regional Perspective highlights several important themes of the period that are reflected in this volume: a multitudinal state, the fluidity of party politics, the importance of violence as a historical agent, individual experiences, and the importance of economics and social forces. We reconceptualize developments in Russia between 1914 and 1922 as a kaleidoscopic process whose dynamic was not solely determined in the capitals. Russia s Revolution in Regional Perspective is the first of four books comprising the volume Russia s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914 22, which studies Russia s Home Front from the First World War through the Civil War. They are part of a broader centennial series on Russia s Great War and Revolution, 1914 22. Contents 7 Acknowledgments 19 Introduction: A Kaleidoscope of Revolutions 21 The Problem of the “Local” in Revolutionary Russia: Moscow Province, 1914-22 37 Revolution and the Creation of the Volost ́ Zemstvo in Southeastern Russia (Spring-Fall 1917) 63 The Collapse and Rebuilding of Grain Procurement Authority in Civil War Russia: The Case of Penza, 1919 85 Zemstvo, State, and Peasants in Arkhangel ́sk Province, 1917–20 105 War and Revolution in Ukraine: Kharkiv Province’s Peasants’ Experiences of War, Revolution, and Occupation, 1914–18 127 National and Social Revolution in the Empire’s West: Estonian Independence and the Russian Civil War, 1917–20 159 Smolensk’s Jews in War, Revolution, and Civil War 191 Bashkir Loyalists and the Question of Autonomy: Gabdulkhai Kurbangaliev in the Russian Revolution and Civil War 231 The Russian Military in Finland and the Russian Revolution 263 The Unemployed Movement in Odessa in 1917: Social and National Revolutions Between Petrograd and Kiev 283 The Izhevsk Revolt of 1918: The Fateful Clash of Revolutionary Coalitions, Paramilitarism, and Bolshevik Power 313 Voronezh: Revolutionary Violence and the Bolshevik Victory 337 Structures and Practices of Power: 1917 in Nizhegorod and Kazan ́ Provinces 369 Echoes of the International across the Historiographies 397 Notes on Contributors 417 Book 1. Russia's Revolution In Regional Perspective -- Book 2. Experience Of War And Revolution -- Edited By Sarah Badcock, Liudmila G. Novikova, Aaron B. Retish. Includes Bibliographical References.