Crossing the Divide: Tradition, Rupture, and Modernity in Revolutionary Russia

Andy Willimott and Matthias Neumann

Part I – The New State, The Past, and the People

1. The Problem of Persistence

J. Arch Getty

2. How Revolutionary was Revolutionary Justice? Legal Culture in Russia across the Revolutionary Divide

Matthew Rendle

3. 'Taking a Leap across the Tsarist Throne': Revolutionizing the Russian Circus

Miriam Neirick

4. The Communist Youth League and the Construction of Soviet Obshchestvennost'

Matthias Neumann

Part II – The People, the Past, and the New State

5. For the People: The Image of Ukrainian Teachers as Public Servants

Matthew D. Pauly

6. 'The Woman of the Orient is not the Voiceless Slave Anymore' – the Non-Russian Women of Volga-Ural Region and ‘Women’s Question'

Yulia Gradskova

7. Devotion and Revolution: Nursing Values

Susan Grant

8. What did Historians do at the Time of the Great Revolution?

Vera Kaplan

9. Speaking more than Bolshevik: Humour, Subjectivity, and Crosshatching in Stalin's 1930s

Jonathan Waterlow

Epilogue: The Russian Tradition? Discourses of Tradition and Modernity

Peter Waldron

Bibliography

Matthias Neumann is a senior lecturer in History at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Andy Willimott is a lecturer in History at the University of Reading, UK.