Circles of the Russian Revolution

Łukasz Adamski is a historian (PhD) and foreign policy expert, and also an author/editor of academic works devoted to Polish political thought, the history of Polish-Ukrainian and Polish-Russian relations. He is currently deputy director of the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding since 2016 (a public institution, established by an act of the Polish parliament). Bartłomiej Gajos is a historian, research fellow at the Centre for Polish-Russian Dialogue and Understanding and at the Institute of History (Polish Academy of Sciences). He specializes in the history of the Russian revolution and politics of memory.

List of Contributors






Introduction
by Łukasz Adamski, Bartłomiej Gajos




"A ravaged century": Did the Russian revolution define the 1900s?
by Marek Kornat




Violence in the Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1914-2: A Survey of Recent Historiography
by Steve S. Smith




From utopia to a lawless state: Russian Marxism and Russian revolutions as a totalitarian project
by Adam Bosiacki




Loci of political power: The 1917 Russian Revolution from regional perspectives
by Sarah Badcock




The Karaim: Political and social activities during the Russian revolution and civil war
by Petr Kaleta




The 1917 Russian Revolution and Belarusian National Movement
by Alaksandar Smaliańczuk




Great Britain and the 1917 revolution in Ukraine
by Jan Jacek Bruski




"Finexit" – The Russian Revolution and Finnish Independence
by Kari Alenius




Rebellion: Social conflict in Central and Eastern Europe in 1917–1920
by Włodzimierz Borodziej, Maciej Górny




Poland and the influence of the Revolution on the French and Western Political and Military Circles (1917-1921)
by Frederic Dessberg




The Consequences of the Russian Revolution on the Polish Question from the Western Point of View
by Isabelle Davion




Austria-Hungary and the Russian Revolution
by Lothar Höbelt




Great Britain and the Russian Revolution of 1917
by Jewgienij Siergiejew




Idle memory? The 1917 Anniversary in Russia
by Boris Kołonicki, Maria Mackiewicz




A quiet jubilee: Practices of the Political Commemoration of the Centenary of the 1917 Revolution(s) in Russia
by Olga Malinowa




(R)evolutionary memory in Tambov (1991–2017)

by Bartłomiej Gajos

Index