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”

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.

• 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.
• [Les] faussaires contre les Soviets (1926), Paris, Librairie du Travail
• Edelman Robert (1986), Gentry Politics on the Eve of the Russian Revolution: The Nationalist Party, New Brunswick, New Jersey, London,Rutgers University Press
• Ferro Marc (1967), La Revolution de 1917 (Fevrier-Juillet), Paris, Aubier
• Ferron Marc (1972), The Russian Revolution of February 1917, London, Prentice-Hall
• Figes Orlando (1998), A People’s Tragedy. The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924, London, Penguin Books
• 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
• Kowalski R. (1997), The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921, London, New York, Routledge
• Lenine (1931), La Revolution Bolsheviste (Ecrits et discours, 1917-1923), Paris. Payot
• Liebman Marcel (1970), The Russian Revolution: The Origins, Phases and Meaning of the Bolsheviks Revolution, New York, Jonathan Cape Ltd.
• Lockhart Bruce R.A. (1933), British Agent, New York, Putnam’s
• Luxemburg Rosa (1961), The Russian Revolution. Leninism and Marxism, University of Michigan Press
• Mayer Arno (2000), The Furies. Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions, Princeton N.J., Princeton University Press
• 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
• Pascal Pierre (1975), En communisme. Mon journal de Russie. A la Mission Militaire Francaise, 1916-1918, Lausanne, L’ Age d’ Homme
• 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
• Russian Revolution, 1917 [The], (2001), London, Uncovered Editions/ Stationery Office
• Salomoni Antonella (2004)(1993), Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Northampton Mass., Interlink BooksSchild Georg (1995), Between Ideology and Realpolitik. Woodrow Wilson and the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921, Westport Conn., London, Greenwood Press
• 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
• Shukman Harold (edited by) (1988), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution, Oxford, Basil Blackwell
• Smith S.A. (2002), The Russian Revolution. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press
• 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
• Ulam Adam (1998)(f.p. 1965), The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia, Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press
• Wade Rex (edited by) (2004), Revolutionary Russia. New Approaches, London, New York, Routledge
• Wade Rex A. (2005), The Russian Revolution, 1917, Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press
• Weber Max (1995), The Russian Revolutions, Ithaka U.S., Cornell University PressWilliams Albert Rhys (1921/1967), Through the Russian Revolution, New York, Monthly Review Press (1967 edition)
• Vandervelde Emile (1918), Trois aspects de la Revolution Russe (7 Mai-25 Juin 1917), Paris, Berger-Levrault
• Vernadsky George (1932), The Russian Revolution, 1917-1931, New York, H. Holt and Co.
• Voytinsky W.S. (1961), Stormy Passage, New York, Vanguard