Social Histories of the Russian Revolution
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Social Histories of the Russian Revolution 2016-2017
A monthly series of talks in London on the Centenary of the Russian Revolution.Brendan McGeever: Antisemitism and Revolutionary Politics in the Russian Revolution.
Thursday, 24 November, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Andy Willimott: Urban communes in 1920s Russia.
Thursday, 15 December, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Sarah Badcock: The 1917 Revolutions at Local Level.
Thursday, 26 January, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Katy Turton: Women in Revolt: the Female Experience of the 1917 Revolutions.
Thursday, 23 February, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.George Gilbert: The Radical Right and the Russian Revolution
March 16, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Dimitri Tolkatsch: The Ukrainian Peasant Insurgency, 1917-21.
March 30, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Chris Read: The Social History of the Revolutionary Period
April 27, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Barbara Allen: Alexander Shlyapnikov and the Russian Metalworkers in 1917
May 25, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Don Filtzer: The Working Class and the First Five-year Plan, 1928-32
June 29, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Wendy Goldman: Taking Power: Family, Wages, Planning the Economy
Sep 28, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Lara Cook: Local Soviets in 1917-18
Oct 12, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.1917 A Century On: A Debate (Speakers include Simon Pirani)
Oct 26, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Gleb Albert: Early Soviet Society and World Revolution, 1917-27
Nov 23, 6.30pm, Birkbeck, Univ. of London, WC1.Each discussion will be opened by historians working in academia who have spent many years studying the revolution in the Russian archives. But these are not academic seminars – they are open to all who share our interest in the history of the Russian revolution as a landmark struggle for social liberation. At each discussion there will be an opening talk of about 30 minutes, followed by open debate.
The emphasis in the discussion meetings will be on the social histories of the revolution – that is, how it was experienced by the mass of working people who participated. By taking this approach we aim not to brush aside the role of political leaders, and their disputes and decisions, but rather to move beyond these well-known debates and reach a deeper understanding of the revolution as the active participation of millions of people in changing history.
(Some plan well in advance. Have we? alan)
Are they going to do a better job than Trotsky 's History of the Russian revolution ? Who ever departs from the experience of the Soviets always end with wrong conclusions
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