Notes on Contributors ixEditor's Acknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: The Russian Revolution at 100 1Daniel OrlovskyPart I Signs, Near and Far 51 Long-Term Causes of the Russian Revolution 7Peter Waldron2 The First Russian Revolution, 1890-1914 17Frank Wcislo3 Russia at War: War as Revolution, Revolution as War 31Christopher J. Read4 Support for the Regime and Right-Wing Reform Plans, Late 1916-Early 1917 43Mikhail N. LoukianovPart II The February Revolution 515 The Duma Committee, the Provisional Government, and the Birth of 'Triple Power' in the February Revolution 53Tsuyoshi Hasegawa6 The Practice of Power in 1917 69Ian D. Thatcher7 The Duma Revolution 77A.B. Nikolaev8 Dynamics of Violence, 1914-17 85V.P. Buldakov9 Russian Political Parties in the Russian Revolution of 1917-18 95Lutz Häfner and Hannu Immonen10 Workers' Control and the 'Workers' Constitution,' the Fabzavkoms and Trade Unions in 1917 105Nikolai V. Mikhailov11 Peasant Dreams and Aspirations in the Russian Revolution 125Aaron Retish12 Liberalism 137Stephen F. Williams13 Military Revolution and War Experience 149Laurie Stoff14 Freedom and Culture: The Role of the Russian Artistic and Literary World in 1917 163Ben Hellman and Tomi Huttunen15 Political Tradition, Revolutionary Symbols, and the Language of the 1917 Revolution 173Boris Kolonitskii16 Counter-Revolution and the Tsarist Elite 187Matthew Rendle17 Revolution in the Borderlands: The Case of Central Asia in a Comparative Perspective 197Marco Buttino18 The Nationality Question: Finnish Activism and the Russian Revolution, 1899-1919 211Aleksi Mainio19 Finland in 1917 221Hannu Immonen20 Part I: War and the 'Russian' Revolutions 229Mark von Hagen20 Part II: Revolution as War: The Western Borderlands Post-October 247Mark von Hagen21 1917 in the Provinces 263Sarah Badcock22 Religion and Revolution: The Russian Orthodox Church Transformed 277Gregory L. Freeze23 Gender and the Russian Revolution 287Elizabeth White24 Revolution and Foreign Policy 297Michael Hughes25 Law, Empire, and Revolution 307William E. PomeranzPart III October and Civil Wars 31726 The Bolsheviks and Their Message in 1917 319Lars T. Lih27 A Soviet Government? 331Geoffrey Swain28 The Political Economy of War Communism 341Erik C. Landis29 The Civil Wars 357Jonathan D. Smele30 Early Soviet Culture: Education, Science, and Proletkult 369Murray Frame31 The Jews in the Revolution 377Michael C. Hickey32 Prospects for Transformation in the Early 1920s 389Tracy McDonald33 Revolution and Memory 399Frederick C. Corney34 Archiving Russia's Revolutions 413William G. RosenbergBibliography 423Index 445
Daniel Orlovsky was born in Chicago and educated at Harvard (AB, AM PH.D.). He studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey, CA while in the US Marine Corps. At Southern Methodist University since 1976, he served as Department Chair, (1986 - 97) and Director of the SMU in Oxford summer school at University College, Oxford (1994 - present). He has been Visiting Professor of History at UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the University of Texas at Austin and continues to make frequent research trips to Russia and Helsinki, Finland. His research interests include the Russian Provisional Government, bureaucracy, the role of white-collar workers/lower middle strata in Russian and Soviet history, and the intersection of institutions, society and politics across the divide of the Russian Revolution.