Media Content

Military Affairs

Military operations, state institutions, and the ideologies that sustained the warring sides.

• Railways in War and Revolution
• Anthony Heywood, University of Aberdeen (UK)
• Роль большевистских вождей в победе Красной армии в Гражданскую войну / The Role of Bolshevik Leaders in the Red Army's Civil War Victory
• Andrei Ganin, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Russian Origins of Strategic Air Operations
• Scott W. Palmer, Western Illinois University (USA)
• War, the Wounded and Politics
• Peter Waldron, University of East Anglia (UK)
• Women Soldiers in Russia's Great War
• Laurie Stoff, Louisiana Tech University (USA)

Arc of Revolution

Events and developments along the Empire's borderlands and periphery

• Romania and the Great War
• Glenn E. Torrey, Emporia State University (USA)
• Bulgaria in the First World War
• Richard C. Hall, Georgia Southwestern State University (USA)

International Affairs

Diplomatic initiatives and agreements, foreign affairs, non-governmental institutions.

• Could Russia Have Avoided War in 1914?
• Michael J. Hughes, University of Liverpool (UK)
• Золото Колчака: конец легенды / Kolchak’s Gold: The End of a Legend
• Oleg Budnitskii, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Treaty of Brest Litovsk
• John W. Steinberg, Georgia Southern University (USA)

The Home Front

Politics, society, and the economy during War, Revolution, and Civil War.

• Anti-Bolshevik Resistance to the Bolshevik Coup of October 25-26: Tragedy or Farce?
• Adele Lindenmeyr, Villanova University (USA)
• Bolshevik Families and the Revolutionary Struggle
• Katy Turton, Queen’s University, Belfast (UK)
• Revolution From Below in 1917
• Christopher Read, The University of Warwick (UK)
• Shefstvo—Revolutionary Sponsorship
• David Stone, Kansas State University (USA)
• Sisters of Mercy in Russia’s Great War
• Laurie Stoff, Louisiana Tech University (USA)
• Songs of Russia’s Great War and Revolution
• Sidney Eric Dement, Binghamton University (USA)

Culture

Popular entertainments and the arts, visual culture, education, religion, philosophy, and the sciences.

• Aleksandr Blok’s Twelve
• Maria Carlson, University of Kansas (USA)
• Avant-Garde
• Steven G. Marks, Clemson University (USA)
• M.A. Bulgakov’s “Future Prospects” and “In the Café”
• Sidney Eric Dement, Binghamton University (USA)
• The Writing on the Wall: The Russian Orthographic Reform of 1917–1918
• Marc L. Greenberg, University of Kansas (USA)
• War and Laughter: Political Cartoons in Russia’s Liberal Press, 1914-1918
• Sidney Eric Dement, Binghamton University (USA)

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