Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia

Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia

Also by Ian D. Thatcher ALEC NOVE ON ECONOMIC THEORY ALEC NOVE ON COMMUNIST AND POSTCOMMUNIST COUNTRIES LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS * LEON TROTSKY AND WORLD WAR ONE MARKETS AND SOCIALISM (with Alec Nove) * REGIME AND SOCIETY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIA TROTSKY * From the same publishers

Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia Essays in Honour of James D. White Edited by Ian D. Thatcher

Editorial matter, selection and introduction Ian D. Thatcher 2006 All remaining chapters their respective authors 2006 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-1-4039-9898-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author(s) has/have asserted his/her/their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2006 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-54749-4 ISBN 978-0-230-62492-4 (ebook) DOI 10.1057/9780230624924 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reinterpreting revolutionary Russia : essays in honour of James D. White / edited by Ian D. Thatcher. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917 1921. 2. Soviet Union History 1917 1936. 3. Russia History Nicholas II, 1894 1917. I. White, James D., 1941 DK265.R3844 2006 947.084 1 dc22 2006045598 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06

Contents Notes on Contributors vi 1 Introduction 1 Ian D. Thatcher 2 Terror in 1905 20 John Keep 3 Mariya Spiridonova: Russian Martyr and British Heroine? The Portrayal of a Russian Female Terrorist in the British Press 36 Jane McDermid 4 The First World War and the End of Tsarism 55 David Saunders 5 The October Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, and the End of the Russian Revolution 72 Rex A. Wade 6 Trotsky and the Russian Civil War 86 Geoffrey Swain 7 A Bolshevik in Brixton Prison: Fedor Raskol nikov and the Origins of Anglo-Soviet Relations 105 Jonathan D. Smele 8 Retrieving the Historical Lenin 130 Christopher Read 9 In Lenin s Shadow: Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Bolshevik Revolution 148 Jane McDermid and Anya Hillyar 10 Soviet Foreign Policy and the Versailles-Washington System 166 Paul Dukes 11 From State of the Art to State Art : The Rise of Socialist Realism at the Tretyakov Gallery 184 Mary Hannah Byers 12 Politics Projected into the Past: What Precipitated the 1936 Campaign Against M.N. Pokrovsky? 202 David Brandenberger Index 215 v

Notes on Contributors David Brandenberger is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond. He is the author of the very influential monograph National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931 1956 (2002). Mary Hannah Byers completed her PhD dissertation under the supervision of James D. White. She is currently Exhibitions Manager at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Paul Dukes is Professor Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen where he taught for many years at the Department of History. A long-standing colleague of James D. White, sharing interests in Scots-Slavs links, he is the author of numerous seminal books, including World Order in History: Russia and the West (1996) and Paths to a New Europe: From Premodern to Postmodern Times (2004). Anya Hillyar is an Independent Scholar and the co-author, with Jane McDermid, of Women and Work In Russia, 1880 1930 (1998), Midwives of the Revolution (1999) and Revolutionary Women in Russia, 1870 1917 (2000). John Keep is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He is the author of numerous path-breaking monographs, from The Rise of Social Democracy in Russia (1963) to Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium (2004). Jane McDermid is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton. She completed her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of James D. White. As well as several co-authored books with Anya Hillyar, she is author of The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland (2005). Christopher Read is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. A one-time student of James D. White, he is the author of several important and original studies, including most recently Lenin (2005). David Saunders is Professor of History at the University of Newcastleupon-Tyne. A long-standing colleague of James D. White, sharing an interest in links between Britain and Revolutionary Russia, his publications include Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801 1881 (1992). Jonathan D. Smele is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London. A one-time student of James D. White, he is Editor of the vi

Notes on Contributors vii journal Revolutionary Russia and most recently co-editor of The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives (2005). Geoffrey Swain holds the Alec Nove Chair at the University of Glasgow. A long-standing colleague of James D. White, sharing an interest in the Baltic in the revolutionary period, he is the author of many books and is currently completing a biography of Trotsky. Ian D. Thatcher is Reader in History at Brunel University. He completed his MLitt and PhD theses under the supervision of James D. White. His most recent books include Trotsky (2003) and Late Imperial Russia: problems and prospects (2005). Rex A. Wade is Professor of History at George Mason University. He is a leading expert on the Russian Revolution and the author of numerous books, including The Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War (2001), The Russian Revolution, 1917 (2000), Red Guards and Workers Militia in the Russian Revolution (1984) and The Russian Search for Peace, 1917 (1969).