Article: Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917.(Brief Article)

Great revolutions never fade away. They are fated to be regularly exhumed and reinterpreted. The revolutionary year of 1989 saw a spate of reinterpretations celebrating the bicentennial of the French Revolution. Gordon Wood's Radicalism of the American Revolution promises to challenge traditional accounts of that epochal event. Now, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, there is renewed interest in the Russian revolutions of 1917, particularly the view "from below." Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917 provides a wealth of information concerning hitherto obscure or neglected aspects of the revolutions' popular movements and institutions. The eighteen essays ...

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