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Russian Revolution and Soviet Power

Faculty Instructor:

ECTS:
4
Code:
ΚΕ0Ε50
Cycle / Level:
Undergraduate
Compulsory / Optional:
Optional
Teaching Period:
Spring
Course Content:

Course drawing

-. The 19th century. Industrial capitalism, colonization, immigration, labor movement, socialism, Marxism. The era of revolutions?
-. From Paris to Russia. 1871-1905. The Revolution and Social Democracy.
-. The First World War. Social and political developments. The crisis of 1916-1917.
-. Military, political, economic and social impasse of the Russian Empire.
-. The February Revolution. The events in Petersburg. The end of the monarchy. Democracy. The Duma, the Provisional Government and the Soviets.
-. Binary power. Government and Soviets. War, political programs, goals and social policy.
-. The Bolsheviks, Lenin and the “April Thesis”.
-. The continuation of the war and the events of July 1917. The short civil status.
-. Military failures of the summer. The completion of the “democratic war”. The military coup of Kornilov.
-. The summer folding and the bold return of the Bolsheviks to the political front. Lenin: State and Revolution. The preparations for the armed uprising.
-. The October Revolution in Petrograd. All power in the Soviets.
-. The revolution in Moscow and the rest of Russia.
-. The political program of revolutionary power. War, land, labor control.
-. The proposal for “democratic peace” and the end of the First World War.
-. The first steps of Soviet power. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the start of civil war and external “intervention”

Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to: - Describe and identify the historical circumstances in which the Russian Revolution of 1917 took place; - To recognize and critically address the multiple and different historiographical interpretations of the event. - Learn to study the primary historical sources and produce historical arguments explaining the causes of the events, their effects and their long-term consequences. - Explain historical continuity and change.
Bibliography:
  • Abramovich Raphael A. (1962), The Soviet Revolution, New York, International Universities Press
  •  Acton Edward (1990), Rethinking the Russian Revolution, London, Edward Arnold
  •  Ascher Abraham (editor) (1976), The Mensheviks in the Russian Revolution, Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press
  • Ascher Abraham (2014), The Russian Revolution. A Beginner’s Guide, London, New York, Oneworld
  • Banerji Arup (1997), Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930, London, Palgrave, Macmillan
  • Berard Ewa (1991), La vie tumultueuse d’ Ilya Ehrenbourg. Juif, Russe et Sovietique, Paris, Editions Ramsay
  • Beryl Williams (1987), The Russian Revolution, Oxford, Basil Blackwell
  • Buchanan George Sir (1923), My Mission to Russia and Other Diplomatic Memories, Boston, Little, Brown
  • Cantacuzene Julia (2016)(f.p. 1919), Revolutionary Days: Recollections of Romanoffs And Bolsheviki, 1914-1917, New York, Indepedently Published
  • Carmichael Joel (1966), Histoire de la revolution russe, Paris, Gallimard/Idees
  • Chamberlin William Henry (1935), The Russian Revolution, New York, Macmillan (2 τόμοι)
  • Chassin Serge (1919), Au pays de la demence rouge. La Revolution Russe (1917-1918), Paris, Librairie Plon
  • D’ Agostino Anthony (2011), The Russian Revolution, 1917-1945, Oxford, Santa Barbara Ca., Praeger
  • Daniels Robert (1967), Red October. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, New York, Scribner’s
  • Daniels Robert (editor) (1972), The Russian Revolution, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice Hall inc.
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  • Edelman Robert (1986), Gentry Politics on the Eve of the Russian Revolution: The Nationalist Party, New Brunswick, New Jersey, London,Rutgers University Press
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  • Figes Orlando, Kolonitsk Boris (1999), Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917, New York, Yale University Press
  • Fitzpatrick Sheila (2002), The Russian Revolution, Oxford, Oxford University Press
  • Haupt Georges, Marie Jean Jacques (1969), Les Bolsheviks par eux-memes, Paris, Maspero
  • Herval Rene (1918), Huit mois de revolution russe (Juin 1917-Janvier 1918), Paris, Hachette
  • Hingley Ronald (1970), Russian Revolution, London, Bodley Head
  • Gill Graeme (1979), Peasants and Government in the Russian Revolution, London, Macmillan/LSE
  • Gorki Maxim (1968), Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918, New York, Eriksson P.S.
  • Jackson George, Devlin Robert (editors) (1989), Dictionary of the Russian Revolution, Westport Conn., Greenwood
  • Katkov George (1967), Russia 1917: The February Revolution, London, Longmans
  • Keep John L.H. (1976), The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
  • Kerensky (1965), Russia and History’s Turning Point, New York, Duell, Sloan and Pierce
  • Koenker Diane (1986), Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution, Princeton, Princeton University Press
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  • Mavor James (2016), The Russian Revolution, London, Routledge
  • Mawdsley Evan (1978), The Russian Revolution and the Baltic Fleet. War and Politics, February 1917-April 1918, London, Macmillan
  • North David (2014), The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century, London, Mehring Books
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  • Pascal Pierre (1977), En communisme. Mon journal de Russie, 1918-1921, Lausanne, L’ Age d’ Homme
  • Pares Bernard Sir (1939), The Fall of the Russian Monarchy, New York, Knopf
  • Pethybridge Roger (1972), Spread of the Russian Revolution. Essays on 1917, London, New York, Macmillan
  • Pipes Richard (1964/1997), The Formation of the Soviet Union. Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923, Cambridge Mass., London, Harvard University Press
  • Pipes Richard (1990), The Russian Revolution, London, Collins Harvill
  • Pipes Richard (1997), The Russian Revolution, 1899-1919, London Harvill
  • Pipes Richard (1998), Three «Whys» of the Russian Revolution, London, Pimlico
  • Pipes Richard (1995) A Consise History of the Russian Revolution, London, Harvill
  • Pitcher Harvey (1995), Witnesses of the Russian Revolution, London, Trafalgar Square
  • Poznanski Renee (1981), Intelligentsia et Revolution: Blok, Gorki et Maiakovski face a 1917, Paris, Editions Anthropos
  • Que faire de l’Est europeen? (1919), Paris, PayotRabinowitch Alexander (1968), Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising, Bloomington Ind., Indiana University Press
  • Rabinowitch Alexander (1978), The Bolsheviks Come to Power. The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, London, New York, W.W. Norton and Company
  • Rabinowitch Alexander (2008), The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd, Bloomington Ind., Indiana University Press
  • Radkey Oliver (1958), The Agrarian Foes of Bolshevism: Promise and Default of the Russian Socialist Revolutionaries, February to October, 1917, New York, Columbia University Press
  • Reed John (1918), Ten Days that Shook the World, New York, Boni and LiverightRosenberg William (1974), Liberals in the Russian Revolution: The Constitutional Democratic Party, 1917-1921, Princeton, Princeton University Press
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  • Serge Victor (2015), Year One of the Russian Revolution, Chicago, New York, Haymarket Books
  • Service Robert (2009)(1986), The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927, London, Macmillan, Palgrave
  • Service Robert (edited by) (1992), Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution, London, Macmillan Palgrave
  • Shklovsky Victor (1970), A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs, 1917-1922, Ithaca N.Y., Cornell University Press
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  • Sobolev P.N. et als (edited by) (1966), History of the October Revolution, Moscow, Progress Publishers
  • Steinberg Mark (2017), The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press
  • Stites Richard (1989), Revolutionary Dreams. Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press
  • Thatcher Ian (edited by) (2006), Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia. Essays in Honour of James D. White, London, Macmillan, Palgrave
  • Tolz Vera (1997), Russian Academicians and the Revolution. Combining Professionalism and Politics, London, Macmillan
  • Trotsky Leon (1933), Histoire de la Revolution Russe. Tome I. La Revolution de Fevrier, Paris, Les Editions Rieder
  • Trotsky Leon (1933), Histoire de la Revolution Russe. Tome ΙI. La Revolution de Fevrier, Paris, Les Editions Rieder
  • Trotsky Leon (1934), Histoire de la Revolution Russe. Tome ΙΙI. La Revolution d’ Octobre, Paris, Les Editions Rieder
  • Trotsky Leon (1933), Histoire de la Revolution Russe. Tome IV. La Revolution d’ Octobre, Paris, Les Editions Rieder
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  • Vandervelde Emile (1918), Trois aspects de la Revolution Russe (7 Mai-25 Juin 1917), Paris, Berger-Levrault
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  • Voytinsky W.S. (1961), Stormy Passage, New York, Vanguard

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