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Revolutionary 1905

by A. Nelson • February 1, 2017

Members of the Jewish Bund with Bodies of Their Comrades Killed during the 1905 Revolution. Public Domain, Link

Welcome to the second weekly digest of our Soviet History course. Here you will find articles on a range of topics, with many focusing on the tragedies of “Bloody Sunday” and the contradictory implications of the October Manifesto. These topics are taken up by authors with posts featured in the slider, where you will also find a discussion of Lenin’s conception of the vanguard party and the perils of underground political activity in the late Imperial period. Among the gems our researchers uncovered this week, this virtual museum of an underground printing press is certainly a stand out. Check it out if you want to get a feel for the physical spaces where revolutionaries worked.

by A. Nelson • February 1, 2017

Women’s Battalion of Death”

It’s time for more war and revolution! This week we move into range of a fabulous digital archive that will inspire us for the rest of the term. The topic of your post this week is the end of the autocracy and the two revolutions of 1917.

by A. Nelson • January 24, 2017

Second Blogpost Guidelines

by A. Nelson • January 24, 2017

“Manifesto of October 17,” by Ilya Repin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

*BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS TUESDAY (Please)
Our second set of posts will focus on the development of a revolutionary movement in Russia and the revolution of 1905. You should start by reading Freeze (Chapter 8) and then develop one of the following topics:

1) Marxism / Leninism. Use the resources in the Marxist Internet Archive to examine the development of Marxism in Russia before the revolution of 1905.