...This chapter discusses the Soviet experience. The Russian Revolution and Stalin's death were among the three postcolonial moments recorded during the Soviet period. The living standard improvements over the last fifteen years came from migration in the 1970s instead of any foreign investment or aid...

... of communication. There cannot be a history of the Russian Revolution and Civil War excluding the dimension of fragmentation of the empire, disruption and degradation of the infrastructure, and so on. And there is no history of Stalinism beyond the violent transformation of the spaces of the former empire...

... of communism provided a historical parallel to the spread of Jacobinism in Burke's day; and the chapter asserts that despite fundamental differences between the French and Russian Revolutions, their practical effects were identical. Hence, revivalists consciously reshaped the manner of Burke's appearance...

... Silver Age Fatalism Halttunen Karen Modernity Tarnovskaia Maria Teffi Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya postrevolutionary Russia Russian urban life law enforcement urbanization postreform Russia Russian Revolution Russian police “Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.” —Agatha...

..., and their enthusiasm for the Europeans. Ivan Bunin believed that Voloshin had another failing with extreme literary praise for the most terrible and bestial crimes of the Russian Revolution. The chapter notes that Voloshin arrived in Odessa from Crimea at the invitation of the Tseitlins and took up his usual activity...

...This book chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Traumatic upheavals—war, economic collapse, famine—transformed local society and brought new groups to positions of power and authority in Central Asia, just as the new revolutionary state began...

... and goals animating the Soviet regime, it was not inevitable. On the contrary, like most female monastic communities in Nizhnii Novgorod diocese, the community at the Convent of the Exaltation of the Cross demonstrated a resiliency during the decade and a half after the start of the Russian Revolution...

... considered propaganda by the deed to be an additional way to pursue the campaign. Amid the exuberant international context of the ongoing Russian Revolution of 1905, a regicidal plot was hatched that allegedly involved British, Cuban, French, Spanish, Argentine, and Italian anarchists and revolutionary...

... Evgeny Kataev Serafimovich Alexander Fadeev Alexander Gladkov Fyodor Ostrovsky Nikolai Sholokhov Mikhail Pavlenko Pyotr agape eros personhood belief Soviet century Andrei Bely Alexander Blok symbolist poems Russian radicals Russian Revolution Bolsheviks Soviet writers Jesus Christ...

... of West critique of the twentieth-century Russia industrial civilization mysticism modern science feudalism Stalin Russian Revolution rational utilitarianism Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev “I have been reading Konstantin Leontiev,” wrote the writer Mikhail Prishvin in 1930 in his very...