The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire /

This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this b...

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Main Author: Riga, Liliana, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Identity and Empire: 1. Reconceptualizing Bolshevism; 2. Social identities and imperial rule
  • Part II. Imperial Strategies and Routes to Radicalism in Contexts: 3. The Jewish Bolsheviks; 4. The Polish and Lithuanian Bolsheviks; 5. The Ukranian Bolsheviks; 6. The Latvian Bolsheviks; 7. The South Caucasian Bolsheviks; 8. The Russian Bolsheviks
  • Conclusion.