Politics and the people in revolutionary Russia a provincial history

Introduction 21 -- A sketch of Nizhegorod and Kazan 29 -- Central power and authority in 1917 35 -- The 'democratisation' of power in the provinces 42 -- A note on the book's structure 65 -- The February revolution : whose story to believe? 79 -- Spreading the news 80 -- Creating a re...

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1. Verfasser: Badcock, Sarah (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge u.a. Cambridge University Press 2007
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:New studies in European history
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction 21 -- A sketch of Nizhegorod and Kazan 29 -- Central power and authority in 1917 35 -- The 'democratisation' of power in the provinces 42 -- A note on the book's structure 65 -- The February revolution : whose story to believe? 79 -- Spreading the news 80 -- Creating a revolutionary narrative 92 -- How to respond? 105 -- Conclusions 120 -- The Socialist Revolutionary Party, and the place of party politics 137 -- The place of the party in 1917 140 -- Who were the PSR? 140 -- Party loyalties 148 -- Conclusions 171 -- Choosing local leaders 205 -- Who were local leaders? 207 -- Career politics in 1917 207 -- Women : the quiet majority 225 -- Elections 234 -- Conclusions 243 -- Talking to the people and shaping revolution 278 -- Aims of educational programmes 285 -- Talking to the people 285 -- Sweetening the message 290 -- Conclusions 302 -- Soldiers and their wives 328 -- Who were the soldiers? 330 -- Raising hell in town and country 330 -- Soldiers' wives 335 -- Responses to soldatki grievances 359 -- Conclusions 376 -- 'Water is yours, light is yours, the land is yours, the wood is yours.' 407 -- Privately owned land 412 -- Woodland 412 -- Governing the countryside 422 -- Conclusions 426 -- Feeding Russia 470 -- Roots of the problem 473 -- Hunger in town and country 473 -- Resistance to the grain monopoly 482 -- Conclusions 497 -- Conclusions 530 -- Bibliography 541 -- Archival sources consulted 541 -- Newspapers consulted 544 -- Secondary sources cited 547
Introduction -- The February revolution : whose story to believe? -- The Socialist Revolutionary Party and the place of party politics -- Choosing local leaders -- Talking to the people and shaping revolution -- Soldiers and their wives -- Water is yours, light is yours, the land is yours, the wood is yours -- Feeding Russia
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVII, 260 S.
graph. Darst., Kt.
23cm
ISBN:9780521876230
978-0-521-87623-0