February 2018 – Revolta Global

1917: The Russian Revolution, reactions and impact – book review

On: February 22, 2018

1917, a collection of essays from the Socialist History Society, bears powerful testimony to the power of socialist revolution to change the world, according to Judy Cox 1917: The Russian Revolution, reactions and impact, ed. David Morgan (Socialist History Society Occasional Publication 41, 2017), 110pp. This year has seen manyRead More →

Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Popular Justice and the Police in Petrograd; Russia in flames: war, revolution, civil war, 1914-1921

By: Robert H. Shaw

On: February 13, 2018

In: Russian revolution

As Hasegawa notes in his fascinating book, approaches to the history of the October 1917 revolution in Russia have evolved over time. Social history eventually supplanted political history, but then gave way to history “across the divide”, which welds the events that took place before and after the revolution. HasegawaRead More →