Sarah Badcock's book on the Russian Revolution published

Russia's Revolution in Regional Perspective

Sarah Badcock’s new book, Russia’s Revolution in Regional Perspective, has just been published. It is the first volume in a four-volume history Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914–22.

Co-edited with Liudmila Novikova and Aaron Retish, the volume features essays exploring the important question of how locality affected the revolutionary experience, encompassing:

• a multitudinal state
• the fluidity of party politics
• the importance of violence as a historical agent
• individual experiences
• the importance of economics and social forces

The editors say: “We reconceptualise developments in Russia between 1914 and 1922 as a kaleidoscopic process whose dynamic was not solely determined in the capitals.”

The book is published by Slavica Publishers, a division of Indiana University's Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures Department.