Read, Christopher (2021) Ten months that no longer shake the world? The centenary of the Russian Revolution and beyond. Revolutionary Russia, 34 (1). pp. 91-137. doi:10.1080/09546545.2021.1921919 ISSN 0954-6545.

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Abstract

Centenaries are times to reflect and assess status. This essay discusses accounts of how the centenary of the Russian Revolution was marked around the globe by governments, national media and civil society in general before going on to examine some of the large number of academic contributions to the debate in the form of books, special editions of journals and so on. As well as reflecting on what was said the article also discusses what the centennial output told us about the standing of the revolution around the world, about its meaning in different contexts and about whether we learned anything new. Among its conclusions are that, with the formidable exception of China, very few claims were made for ownership of and support for the revolution, that western academic contributions tended to repeat rather than expand existing interpretations and that Russian interpretations tended to ignore aspects of the revolution associated with the once dominant official Soviet era discourse.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title:	Revolutionary Russia
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0954-6545
Official Date:	18 May 2021
Dates:	Date Event 18 May 2021 Published
Volume:	34
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 91-137
DOI:	10.1080/09546545.2021.1921919
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Is Part Of:	1

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