Geoffrey Swain: Against the Grain

ISBN-13: 9781138306707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 207 str.

Terry Cox

Opis

This volume brings together contributions in honour of esteemed historian Geoffrey Swain, who has written extensively on the Russian Civil War, Latvia during the first years of Soviet rule, and the career or Josip Broz Tito, often challenging accepted historical views.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The Russian Revolutionary Constitution and Pamphlet Literature in the 1917 Russian Revolution Ian D. Thatcher  3. Concepts of Policing During the Russian Revolution, 1917-1918 Murray Frame  4. Quantifying Counter-Revolution: Legal Statistics and Revolutionary Justice During Russia’s Civil War 1917-1922 Matthew Rendle  5. The ‘First Phase’ of the Russian Civil War: Soviet Karelia, October 1917 - May 1918 Alistair S. Wright  6. World War II and the National Question: The Origins of the Autonomous Status of Vojvodina in Yugoslavia Vladimir Unkovski-Korica  7. Cold War Football: Soviet Defence and Yugoslav Attack Following the Tito-Stalin Split of 1948 Richard Mills  8. Beria and Khrushchev: The Power Struggle over Nationality Policy and the Case of Latvia Michael Loader  9. Still Searching for the ‘Third Way’: Geoffrey Swain’s Interventions in the Russian Civil Wars Jonathan D. Smele  10. ‘Making Forgotten Voices Heard’: Geoffrey Swain’s Contribution to Latvian Historiography Marina Germane  11. Josip Broz Tito and Yugoslav Communism: A Review of the Work of Geoffrey Swain Cathie Carmichael

O autorze

Terry Cox is Professor of Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His current research projects are on civil society and social policy in Eastern Europe.