The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire /
Riga, Liliana, 1962-
The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire / Liliana Riga. - xiii, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: Part I. Identity and Empire: 1. Reconceptualizing Bolshevism; 2. Social identities and imperial rule; Part II. Imperial Strategies and Routes to Radicalism in Contexts: 3. The Jewish Bolsheviks; 4. The Polish and Lithuanian Bolsheviks; 5. The Ukrainian Bolsheviks; 6. The Latvian Bolsheviks; 7. The South Caucasian Bolsheviks; 8. The Russian Bolsheviks.
"This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this book examines the shared experiences of assimilation and socioethnic exclusion that underlay their class universalism. It suggests that imperial policies toward the Empire's diversity radicalized class and ethnicity as intersectional experiences, creating an assimilated but excluded elite: lower-class Russians and middle-class minorities universalized particular exclusions as they disproportionately sustained the economic and political burdens of maintaining the multiethnic Russian Empire. The Bolsheviks' social identities and routes to revolutionary radicalism show especially how a class-universalist politics was appealing to those seeking secularism in response to religious tensions, a universalist politics where ethnic and geopolitical insecurities were exclusionary, and a tolerant 'imperial' imaginary where Russification and illiberal repressions were most keenly felt"--
9781107014220
2012017767
Comunismo--Historia.--Unión Soviética
Revolucionarios--Historia.--Unión Soviética
Communism--History.--Soviet Union
Revolutionaries--History.--Soviet Union
Radicals--History.--Soviet Union
Minorities--Political activity--History.--Soviet Union
Ethnicity--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Assimilation (Sociology)--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Marginality, Social--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Social classes--History.--Soviet Union
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Unión Soviética--Política y gobierno--1917-1936.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.
Soviet Union--Social conditions--1917-1945.
338 DK 266.5 / R565b 2012
324.247/0750922
The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire / Liliana Riga. - xiii, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and indexes.
Machine generated contents note: Part I. Identity and Empire: 1. Reconceptualizing Bolshevism; 2. Social identities and imperial rule; Part II. Imperial Strategies and Routes to Radicalism in Contexts: 3. The Jewish Bolsheviks; 4. The Polish and Lithuanian Bolsheviks; 5. The Ukrainian Bolsheviks; 6. The Latvian Bolsheviks; 7. The South Caucasian Bolsheviks; 8. The Russian Bolsheviks.
"This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this book examines the shared experiences of assimilation and socioethnic exclusion that underlay their class universalism. It suggests that imperial policies toward the Empire's diversity radicalized class and ethnicity as intersectional experiences, creating an assimilated but excluded elite: lower-class Russians and middle-class minorities universalized particular exclusions as they disproportionately sustained the economic and political burdens of maintaining the multiethnic Russian Empire. The Bolsheviks' social identities and routes to revolutionary radicalism show especially how a class-universalist politics was appealing to those seeking secularism in response to religious tensions, a universalist politics where ethnic and geopolitical insecurities were exclusionary, and a tolerant 'imperial' imaginary where Russification and illiberal repressions were most keenly felt"--
9781107014220
2012017767
Comunismo--Historia.--Unión Soviética
Revolucionarios--Historia.--Unión Soviética
Communism--History.--Soviet Union
Revolutionaries--History.--Soviet Union
Radicals--History.--Soviet Union
Minorities--Political activity--History.--Soviet Union
Ethnicity--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Assimilation (Sociology)--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Marginality, Social--Political aspects--History.--Soviet Union
Social classes--History.--Soviet Union
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Unión Soviética--Política y gobierno--1917-1936.
Soviet Union--Politics and government--1917-1936.
Soviet Union--Social conditions--1917-1945.
338 DK 266.5 / R565b 2012
324.247/0750922