"This volume is a valuable source of information that also represents a genuinely collaborative approach to understanding Soviet history. The collection is so rich that every scholar and teacher of Soviet history will want to consult it. Highly recommended." --Choice
"Documentation of this well-edited volume is exhaustive. It can be highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate students and specialists." --History
"This is a surprisingly readable, well-structured book that is an absolute necessity for a college library as well as a useful addition to a scholar's personal...
"This volume is a valuable source of information that also represents a genuinely collaborative approach to understanding Soviet history. The colle...
"This volume is a valuable source of information that also represents a genuinely collaborative approach to understanding Soviet history. The collection is so rich that every scholar and teacher of Soviet history will want to consult it. Highly recommended." --Choice
"Documentation of this well-edited volume is exhaustive. It can be highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate students and specialists." --History
"This is a surprisingly readable, well-structured book that is an absolute necessity for a college library as well as a useful addition to a scholar's personal...
"This volume is a valuable source of information that also represents a genuinely collaborative approach to understanding Soviet history. The colle...
Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations between historians and archivists. Written by an archivist and a historian, it shows how these changes have been brought on by new historical thinking, new conceptions of archives, changing notions of historical authority, modifications in archival practices, and new information technologies. The book takes an "archival turn" by situating archives as subjects rather than places of study, and examining the increasingly problematic relationships...
Processing the Past explores the dramatic changes taking place in historical understanding and archival management, and hence the relations b...
More than seventy years since the Bolsheviks came to power, there is still no comprehensive study of workers' activism in history's first successful workers' revolution. Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 is the first effort in any language to explore this issue in both quantitative and qualitative terms and to relate strikes to the broader processes of Russia's revolutionary transformation. Diane Koenker and William Rosenberg not only provide a new basis for understanding essential elements of Russia's social and political history in this critical period but also make a strong...
More than seventy years since the Bolsheviks came to power, there is still no comprehensive study of workers' activism in history's first successfu...