CfP: The 100-year anniversary of the Russian revolutions
The 100-year anniversary of the Russian revolutions Slavic Review Special Fall 2017 Issue Deadline : September 10, 2016 Social protest movements across the political spectrum and the globe indicate the continuing importance of the 1917 Russian revolutions. For a special Fall 2017 issue of Slavic Review we seek short essays not previously published that draw on original scholarly research. The essays should provide a significant new...
CfP: PALGRAVE HANDBOOK ON WOMEN AND GENDER
CFP: PALGRAVE HANDBOOK ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION Please aim to send expressions of interest to milic@glos.ac.uk by the end of September 2014. Professor Melanie Ilic (Professor of Soviet History, University of Gloucestershire, UK) has been approached by a commissioning editor at Palgrave Macmillan to edit a volume of essays provisionally titled: The Palgrave Handbook on Women and Gender in...
Petersburg Fin de Siècle
Mark D. Steinberg Petersburg Fin de Siècle The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described and interpreted the troubled years between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. Mark Steinberg, distinguished historian of Russia in the late...
