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The Russian Revolution was an explosion of mass democracy from below. It transformed the people who took part and inspired tens of millions across the world. Its global impact shook the capitalist system to its foundations and came close to bringing it down. But in the end, the revolutionary movement was destroyed by the most murderous counter-revolutionary terror in history. And because the real history of the revolution is so subversive of class rule everywhere – East, West, and South – it has been buried under a mountain of lies, distortions, and denials. This book sets out to nail every bogus argument about the Russian Revolution – from Tories, Stalinists, and sectarians – and to present the living reality of a mass movement of millions, organised in participatory assemblies, mobilised for militant action.

Soviet Union --- Russia --- History --- History / Russia & The Former Soviet Union --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Russian Revolution --- People's History --- Marxism --- Communism --- Bolsheviks --- Lenin --- Trotsky --- Stalin --- Leon Trotsky --- Saint Petersburg --- Vladimir Lenin

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Paul Kellogg uses the story of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system, as a frame with which to re-assess the Russian Revolution. In particular, he turns to the contributions of Iulii Martov, a contemporary of Lenin, and his analysis of the central role played in the revolution by a temporary class of peasants-in-uniform. Kellogg explores the persistence and creativity of workers' resistance in even the darkest hours of authoritarian repression and offers new perspectives on the failure of democratic governance after the Russian Revolution.

Martov, L., --- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, --- Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp) --- History. --- Arctic Gulags. --- Authoritarianism. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bolshevism. --- Gulag. --- Hunger Strikes. --- Leftists. --- Lenin. --- Martov. --- Mensheviks. --- Miners Union. --- Oral Newspaper. --- Russian Revolution. --- Socialism. --- Solzhenitsyn. --- Stalinism. --- Substitutionism. --- The Great Purge. --- The Great Terror. --- Trotsky. --- Vorkuta. --- Workers Resistance.

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Following the end of the First World War the Mediterranean Fleet found itself heavily involved in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Sea of Marmora, the Black Sea and to a lesser extent, the Adriatic. Naval commanders were faced with complex problems in a situation of neither war nor peace. The collapse of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires created a vacuum of power in which different factions struggled for control or influence. In the Black Sea this involved the Royal Navy in intervention in 1919 and 1920 on the side of those Russians fighting the Bolsheviks. By 1920 the Allies were also faced with the challenge of the Turkish nationalists, culminating in the Chanak crisis of 1922. The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne enabled the Mediterranean Fleet finally to return to a peacetime routine, although there was renewed threat of war over Mosul in 1925-1926. These events are the subject of the majority of the documents contained in this volume. Those that comprise the final section of the book show the Mediterranean Fleet back to preparation for a major war, applying the lessons of World War One and studying how to make use of new weapons, aircraft carriers and aircraft.

Great Britain. --- History --- Mediterranean Region --- History, Naval --- HISTORY / Military / Naval. --- Admiral Osmund de Beauvoir Brock. --- Admiralty. --- Black Sea. --- Bolsheviks. --- Constantinople. --- Malta. --- Mediterranean. --- Naval Aviation. --- Rear Admiral Michael Culme-Seymour. --- Royal Navy. --- Russia. --- Smyrna. --- The Interwar Years. --- Turkey. --- Vice Admiral Frederick Field. --- Vice Admiral John De Robeck. --- Vice Admiral Roger Keyes. --- Vice Admiral Sydney Freemantle.

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The year 2017 saw a multitude of conferences and exhibitions devoted to the centenary of the Russian Revolutions, both in Russia and in other parts of the world. The commemoration of this event would be incomplete without an exploration of its Northern dimension; in October 2017, the University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway hosted the conference The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond. Norway and Russia are both northern states, and the two countries have a common border in the High North. Some articles in this volume, based on the conference proceedings, investigate the impact of the Russian Revolution in Norway and Sweden, while others deal with the High North, e.g. the Revolution and Civil War in Northern Russia and the radicalization of the workers’ movement of Northern Norway; some are also devoted to representations of the Russian Revolution at exhibitions and on the big screen.

Russia, Northern --- Soviet Union --- Norway --- Sweden --- History --- Influence. --- Aftenposten. --- Alexandra Kollontai. --- Arkhangelsk. --- Bolsheviks. --- February Revolution. --- Lenin. --- October Revolution. --- Olaf Broch. --- Petrograd. --- Putin. --- Russia;Revolution;Emigration;Scandinavia;Norway;Sweden;High North;Film;Exhibitions;Europe;history;international relations;1917;war;Russian Revolution;workers' movements;Nordic countries;geography;class;economy;politics. --- Russian Civil War. --- Russian Empire. --- Scandinavia. --- Siberia. --- Soviet Union. --- USSR. --- Whites. --- collectivization. --- communism. --- diplomacy. --- historiography. --- international relations. --- journalism. --- labor. --- peasant-agrarian issues. --- political activism. --- postrevolutionary emigration. --- tsarist state. --- twentieth century. --- HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. --- 1917. --- Emigration. --- Europe. --- Exhibitions. --- Film. --- High North. --- Nordic countries. --- Norway. --- Revolution. --- Russia. --- Russian Revolution. --- Sweden. --- class. --- economy. --- geography. --- history. --- politics. --- war. --- workers' movements.

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The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point for the reader new to his work. Those who are already familiar with his writing will also be grateful for this further addition to his collected essays. The connecting theme of these essays, as in the case of earlier volumes, is the crucial social and political role--past, present and future--of ideas, and of their progenitors. A rich variety of subject-matters is represented--from philosophy to education, from Russia to Israel, from Marxism to romanticism--so that the truth of Heine's warning is exemplified on a broad front. It is a warning that Berlin often referred to, and provides an answer to those who ask, as from time to time they do, why intellectual history matters. Among the contributions are "My Intellectual Path," Berlin's last essay, a retrospective autobiographical survey of his main preoccupations; and "Jewish Slavery and Emancipation," the classic statement of his Zionist views, long unavailable in print. His other subjects include the Enlightenment, Giambattista Vico, Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen, G.V. Plekhanov, the Russian intelligentsia, the idea of liberty, political realism, nationalism, and historicism. The book exhibits the full range of his enormously wide expertise and demonstrates the striking and enormously engaging individuality, as well as the power, of his own ideas. "Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilization."--Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty, 1958. This new edition adds a number of previously uncollected pieces, including Berlin's earliest statement of the pluralism of values for which he is famous.

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy, Modern. --- Modern philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Age of Enlightenment. --- Alexander Herzen. --- Analogy. --- Autocracy. --- Awareness. --- Bolsheviks. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Calculation. --- Capitalism. --- Career. --- Cataclysm (Dragonlance). --- Chaim Weizmann. --- Chauvinism. --- Civilisation (TV series). --- Classicism. --- Communism. --- Consciousness. --- Criticism. --- Despotism. --- Disenchantment. --- Eloquence. --- Empirical evidence. --- Empiricism. --- Existentialism. --- Fanaticism. --- For Marx. --- Form of life (philosophy). --- Friedrich Meinecke. --- Good and evil. --- Hatred. --- Historism. --- Humiliation. --- Hypothesis. --- Ideology. --- Individualism. --- Institution. --- Intellectual history. --- Intelligentsia. --- Irony. --- Isaiah Berlin. --- Italians. --- Jerusalem Prize. --- Jews. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Jules Michelet. --- Karl Marx. --- Lecture. --- Literature. --- Marxism. --- Modernity. --- Morality. --- Nationality. --- Natural science. --- Obscurantism. --- Obstacle. --- Of Education. --- Oligarchy. --- Oxford University Press. --- Paternalism. --- Pessimism. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of history. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Populism. --- Positivism. --- Prejudice. --- Publication. --- Rationalism. --- Rationality. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Result. --- Rhetoric. --- Romanticism. --- Ruler. --- Russian literature. --- School of thought. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientist. --- Sensibility. --- Sincerity. --- Skepticism. --- Slavery. --- Sociology. --- Symptom. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Three Critics of the Enlightenment. --- Treatise. --- War. --- Weizmann. --- Western culture. --- Writing. --- Zionism.