The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond

Open Access Published by Academic Studies Press 2020

The Russian Revolutions of 1917

The Northern Impact and Beyond

Edited by: Kari Aga Myklebost , Jens Petter Nielsen and Andrei Rogatchevski
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781644690659

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About this book

The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond consists of twelve articles, written by leading scholars from Russia, Norway, Sweden and Great Britain. They deal with the repercussions of these revolutions in Russia and Scandinavia, especially in the Northern parts of these countries.

Author / Editor information

Myklebost Kari Aga :

Kari Aga Myklebost is Professor of History and Barents Chair in Russian Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has published articles and book chapters on various aspects of the historical relations between Norway and Russia throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, with a special focus on the northernmost regions of the two states. Her works include studies in diplomatic and economic relations, scientific relations in polar research, and state policy towards northern minority groups. She is currently working on a biography of Olaf Broch, Norway’s first professor of Slavonic Studies and a topical figure in Norwegian-Russian relations during the first half of the twentieth century.Nielsen Jens Petter :

Jens Petter Nielsen is Professor of History at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies, and Theology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has published extensively on Soviet history and historiography, as well as on Russian-Norwegian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Lately, he has edited Sblizhenie: Rossiia i Norvegiia v 1814–1917 godakh (Getting closer: Norway and Russia 1814-1917) (Moscow: Ves Mir publishing house, 2017).Rogatchevski Andrei :

Andrei Rogatchevski is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Among his latest co-edited volumes/thematic clusters are “Filming the Strugatskiis,” Science Fiction Film and Television 8, no. 2 (2015), “Russophone Periodicals in Israel,” Stanford Slavic Studies 47 (2016), “Madness and Literature,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 80 (2017), and “Russian Space: Concepts, Practices, Representations,” Nordlit 39 (2017).

Kari Aga Myklebost is Professor of History and Barents Chair in Russian Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She has published articles and book chapters on various aspects of the historical relations between Norway and Russia throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special focus on the northernmost regions of the two states. Her works include studies in diplomatic and economic relations, scientific relations in polar research, and state policy towards northern minority groups. She is currently working on a biography of Olaf Broch, Norway’s first professor of Slavonic Studies and a topical figure in Norwegian-Russian relations during the first half of the twentieth century.

Jens Petter Nielsen is Professor of History at the Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies, and Theology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has published extensively on Soviet history and historiography, as well as on Russian-Norwegian relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lately, he has edited Sblizhenie: Rossiia i Norvegiia v 1814–1917 godakh (Getting closer: Norway and Russia 1814-1917) (Moscow: Ves’ Mir publishing house, 2017).

Andrei Rogatchevski is Professor of Russian Literature and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Among his latest co-edited volumes/thematic clusters are “Filming the Strugatskiis,” Science Fiction Film and Television 8, no. 2 (2015), “Russophone Periodicals in Israel,” Stanford Slavic Studies 47 (2016), “Madness and Literature,” Wiener Slawistischer Almanach 80 (2017), and “Russian Space: Concepts, Practices, Representations,” Nordlit 39 (2017).

Reviews

“This collaborative effort to explore the events of 1917 and their impact on Norway and Sweden in particular, constitutes a valuable source for those interested in studying the reception of the Russian Revolution of 1917 by other countries as well as its various impacts in those countries.”

—Ayse Dietrich, International Journal of Russian Studies

“Taken together, this study of the ‘northern dimension’ of the Russian Revolution provides some interesting insights. On a practical level, scholars who do not command Scandinavian languages will find it useful to read overviews of national historiographic discussions on the topic, and can gain an understanding of how the Russian Revolution affected that region. On a larger interpretative scale, this volume confirms the recent historiographical trend that shifts attention from the grand ideas and major political events of the Russian Revolution to its different regional contexts and particular local circumstances.”

—L. G. Novikova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Slavonic and East European Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Cover Picture: An Explanatory Note Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
A Note on Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction Kari Aga Myklebost, Jens Petter Nielsen and Andrei Rogatchevski Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Part One: The Northern Impact
1. The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the North: Contemporary Approaches and Understanding Vladislav Goldin Open Access Download PDF	1
2. The Russian Revolution in Sweden: Some Genetic and Genealogical Perspectives Klas-Göran Karlsson Open Access Download PDF	17
3. The Idea of a Liberal Russia: The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Norwegian Slavist Olaf Broch Kari Aga Myklebost Open Access Download PDF	34
4. Arkhangelsk Province and Northern Norway in 1917–1920: Foreign Property and Capital after the October Revolution of 1917 Tatyana Troshina and Ekaterina Kotlova Open Access Download PDF	54
5. Russian Emigration to Norway after the Russian Revolution and Civil War Victoria V. Tevlina Open Access Download PDF	69
6. Soviet Diplomacy in Norway and Sweden in the Interwar Years: The Role of Alexandra Kollontai Åsmund Egge Open Access Download PDF	79
7. Apprentices of the World Revolution: Norwegian Communists at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMZ) and the International Lenin School, 1926–1937 Ole Martin Rønning Open Access Download PDF	99
8. The Impact of the October Revolution on the North-Norwegian Labor Movement Hallvard Tjelmeland Open Access Download PDF	118
Part Two: Beyond
9. Avant-garde Artists vs. Reindeer Herders: The Kazym Rebellion in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Angels of the Revolution (2014) Andrei Rogatchevski Open Access Download PDF	133
10. 1917: The Evolution of Russian Émigré Views of the Revolution Catherine Andreyev Open Access Download PDF	153
11. Russian Revolutions Exhibited: Behind the Scenes Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia Open Access Download PDF	164
12. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Kremlin’s Policy of Remembrance Jens Petter Nielsen Open Access Download PDF	188
Index of Names Open Access Download PDF	207