Experiencing Russia's civil war : politics, society, and revolutionary culture in Saratov, 1917-1922 /

This book is the only comprehensive history of the total experience of the Russian Civil War. Focusing on the key Volga city of Saratov and the surrounding region, Donald Raleigh is the first historian to fully show how the experience of civil war embedded itself into both the people's and the...

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Author / Creator: Raleigh, Donald J.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Experiencing Russia's Civil War
  • PART ONE: POLITICS
  • 1. Revolution on the Volga
  • 2. Languages of Power: How the Saratov Bolsheviks Imagined Their Enemies
  • 3. The Rise and Fall of the Saratov "Republic"
  • 4. Cadres Resolve All: The Communists in Power
  • 5. Co-optation amid Repression: The Revolutionary Communists and Other Socialist Parties in Saratov Province
  • PART TWO: SOCIETY AND REVOLUTIONARY CULTURE
  • 6. A Community in Disarray, a Community in the Making
  • 7. The Cultural Practices of Provincial Communism
  • 8. Narratives of Self and Other: Saratov's Bourgeoisie
  • 9. Not Seeing Like a State: The Red Guard Assault on Capital
  • 10. Peasants in a Workers' Revolution
  • 11. "Given His Class Position, a Worker Can Be Nothing but a Communist"
  • 12. A Provincial Kronstadt, Another Tambov?
  • Conclusion