The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary perspectives by Jonathan D. Smele; Anthony Heywood instant download

The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary perspectives by Jonathan D. Smele; Anthony Heywood instant download

The year 2005 marks the centenary of Russia’s ’first revolution’, that of 1905. Hundreds were killed and injured when, on 9 January, ’Bloody Sunday’, Cossacks fired upon workers and their families who were marching peacefully to deliver a petition to Tsar Nicholas II in St Petersburg. This set off a wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies across the Russian Empire. Tsarism survived, but only after having made significant political and social concessions, and allowing the Russian people a ’dress rehearsal’, in Lenin’s words, for the revolutions of 1917. Thus, 1905 proved a crucial turning point in the demise of the autocracy and the rise of a revolutionary socialism that would shape Russia, Europe and the international system for the rest of the twentieth century. The centenary of the revolution has prompted scholars to review and reassess our understanding of 1905. Recent opportunities to access archives throughout the former Soviet Union are yielding new provincial perspectives, as well as fresh insights into the roles of national and religious minorities and the parts played by individuals, social groups, political parties and institutions. The Russian Revolution of 1905 brings together some of the best of this new research and reassessment. The volume includes thirteen chapters written by leading historians from around the world, together with an introduction by Abraham Ascher.