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Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922: The Centennial Reappraisal

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Project Description

Our goal is to mark the centenary of the 1917 Russian revolutions by producing a comprehensive scholarly reappraisal of Russia’s world-changing experience of war and revolution between 1914 and the early 1920s.

We aim to develop a worldwide community of scholars collaborating in this project, to maximize the use of archival resources for new research and to synthesize historical research with work in allied disciplines like war and cultural studies.

Accordingly, at this stage of development we have identified five core organizational themes for our project:

• military affairs
• international affairs
• the home front
• empire
• culture

We expect to produce several edited books on each of these themes. In each case we will highlight the experience of 1914–17 and attempt to assess the impact of that experience on Russia’s subsequent development up to the early 1920s.

The main audiences for these books will be professional historians and students, but we also plan to develop a permanent website – complete with illustrations, maps and primary documents – that is aimed at non-scholarly audiences. We aim to publish our books, and if possible the website, both in English and in Russian.

Call for Papers

Click here to see our Call for Papers.

The Project Team

We have assembled an international collective of over 40 leading Russian, American, British and other historians. The current composition of our team, in alphabetical order, is:

Project managers/general editors

Heywood, Anthony	Senior Lecturer in Modern European History	University of Aberdeen, UK
McDonald, David	Mortenson-Petrovich Professor of History	University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Steinberg, John	Associate Professor of History	Georgia Southern University, USA

Teams

Military

Airapetov, Oleg	Associate Professor of Russian History	Moscow State University, Russia
Marshall, Alex	Senior Lecturer in History	University of Glasgow, UK
Menning, Bruce	Professor of Strategy	US Army Command and General Staff College, USA
Steinberg, John	Associate Professor of History	Georgia Southern University, USA
Stone, David	Professor of History	Kansas State University, USA
Tunstall, Jack	Professor of History	University of Southern Florida, USA

International

Hughes, Michael	Professor of Russian and International History	University of Liverpool, UK
McDonald, David	Mortenson-Petrovich Professor of History	University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Schimmelpennick van der Oye, David	Professor of History	Brock University, Canada
Budnitskii, Oleg	Professor of History	Russian Academy of Sciences

Home front

Badcock, Sarah	Associate Professor of History	University of Nottingham, UK
Lindenmeyr, Adele	Professor of History	Villanova University, USA
Novikova, Liudmila	Associate Professor of History	Moscow State University, Russia
Read, Christopher	Professor of Twentieth-Century European History	University of Warwick, UK
Retish, Aaron	Associate Professor of History	Wayne State University, USA
Waldron, Peter	Professor of European History	University of East Anglia, UK

Empire I (Western borderlands, Caucasus, Central Asia)

von Hagen, Mark	Professor of History	Arizona State University, USA
Lohr, Eric	Associate Professor of History	American University, USA
Semenov, Alex	Editor	Ab Imperio
Tolz, Vera	Sir William Mather Professor of Russian Studies	University of Manchester, UK

Empire II (Far East, Japan)

Shishkin, Vladimir	Professor of History	Novosibirsk University, Russia
Tohmatsu, Haruo	Professor of International Relations	Tamagawa University, Japan
Wolff, David	Professor of History	Hokkaido University, Japan
Yokote, Shinje	Professor of Political Science	Keio University, Japan

Culture

Frame, Murray	Senior Lecturer in History	University of Dundee, UK
Kolonitskii, Boris	Professor of History	European University, St Petersburg/Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Marks, Steven	Professor of History	Clemson University, USA
Stockdale, Melissa	Associate Professor of History	University of Oklahoma, USA

New media (electronic books, long-term website)

Palmer, Scott	Associate Professor of History	Western Illinois University, USA
Wood, Nathan	Assistant Professor of History	University of Kansas, USA

Advisory Committee

Acton, Edward	Professor of Modern European History	University of East Anglia, UK
Borisenok, Iurii	Editor, Rodina	Rodina, Russia
Heywood, Anthony	Senior Lecturer in Modern European History	University of Aberdeen, UK
Horne, John	Professor of Modern European History	Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Lieven, Dominic	Professor of Russian Government	London School of Economics, UK
McDonald, David	Mortenson-Petrovich Professor of History	University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Mironenko, Sergei	Director, State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)	GARF, Moscow, Russia
Pomeranz, William	Deputy Director	Kennan Institute, USA
Smele, Jonathan	Senior Lecturer in History; editor Revolutionary Russia	University of London, UK
Steinberg, John	Associate Professor of History	Georgia Southern University, USA
Swain, Geoffrey	Alec Nove Professor of Russian and East European Studies	University of Glasgow, UK

Conferences

We aim to hold roundtable sessions and themed research panels at the following international academic conferences during 2008–2010:

• American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
  Philadelphia, USA, November 2008
  Boston, USA, November 2009
  Los Angeles, USA, November 2010
  
  
• British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
  University of Cambridge, UK March 2009
  University of Cambridge, UK, Easter 2010
  
  
• Study Group on the Russian Revolution (SGRR)
  Queen’s University, Belfast, January 2009
  (provisional) Queen’s University, Belfast, January 2010
  
  
• International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES)
  VIII World Congress, Stockholm, July 2010

Our Publication Plan

We aim to publish our books with a leading scholarly press. Our planned schedule for final editing is:

1 February 2012 submission deadline for prospective chapters

July 2012 conference to evaluate prospective chapters

December 2012 submission deadline for revised chapters

spring 2013 submission of book-manuscripts for peer evaluation

We aim to begin publishing the books in 2014.

Invitation to Contribute Research

If you are doing scientific research on any aspect of Russia’s history between 1914 and the early 1920s, please consider participating in our project by offering to contribute one or more chapters.

We invite you now to contact Dr Heywood to register your interest: t.heywood@abdn.ac.uk

Please put the acronym RGWR in your email subject line and send the following information:

• your name
• your institutional affiliation
• your email address
• your research topic/s
• the title of your proposed chapter

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sponsorship and Fund-raising Priorities

Our launch conference at Aberdeen was supported by:

• The British Academy
• The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
• The University of Aberdeen
• The University of Wisconsin-Madison
• The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies
• The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies

We are currently seeking funding for our next project meeting in July 2010.

In the longer term we expect our fund-raising priorities to be:

• our concluding conference in July 2012
• the translation into English of all Russian and other contributions not originally written in English
• the translation into Russian of all contributions not originally written in Russian
• the electronic version of our books and the permanent website

Donations

If you would like to support the project financially or in kind, please contact the project managers:

• Dr John Steinberg - sohisjs@georgiasouthern.edu
• Dr Anthony Heywood - t.heywood@abdn.ac.uk

News

Project news is disseminated electronically to interested individuals and organisations via this website, academic email lists and direct mailing. If you wish to join our email list please notify Dr Heywood: t.heywood@abdn.ac.uk