Liliana Riga

The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new interpretation of the Russian Revolution, finding that nearly two-thirds of the Bolsheviks were ethnic minorities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781107425064
• ISBN-10: 1107425069
• Artikelnr.: 40718965

Autorenporträt

Liliana Riga is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She holds a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in political science from Columbia University and a PhD in sociology from McGill University. She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and has taught sociology at McGill University, the University of Strathclyde and the University of Edinburgh. Her work has appeared in, among other publications, the American Journal of Sociology, Sociology, Nations and Nationalism and Comparative Studies in Society and History. An article drawn from material from this book appeared in the American Journal of Sociology and was awarded Honorable Mention in 2009 for Best Article in Comparative Historical Sociology by the American Sociological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Identity and Empire: 1. Reconceptualizing Bolshevism
2. Social identities and imperial rule
Part II. Imperial Strategies and Routes to Radicalism in Contexts: 3. The Jewish Bolsheviks
4. The Polish and Lithuanian Bolsheviks
5. The Ukranian Bolsheviks
6. The Latvian Bolsheviks
7. The South Caucasian Bolsheviks
8. The Russian Bolsheviks.