{"product_id":"the-bolsheviks-and-the-russian-empire-paperback-9781107425064","title":"The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire (Paperback \/ softback) 9781107425064","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book offers a new interpretation of the Russian Revolution, finding that nearly two-thirds of the Bolsheviks were ethnic minorities.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLiliana Riga (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107425064, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 July 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 3 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.9 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is an impressive book that draws upon a very wide range of secondary sources. It is elegant and cohesive.' Ian D. Thatcher, Slavonic and East European Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Identity and Empire: 1. Reconceptualizing Bolshevism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Social identities and imperial rule\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Imperial Strategies and Routes to Radicalism in Contexts: 3. The Jewish Bolsheviks\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Polish and Lithuanian Bolsheviks\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Ukranian Bolsheviks\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Latvian Bolsheviks\u003cbr\u003e 7. The South Caucasian Bolsheviks\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Russian Bolsheviks.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20%5BJHB%5D%22\"\u003eJHB\u003c\/a\u003e], Ethnic minorities \u0026amp; multicultural studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Ethnic minorities \u0026amp; multicultural studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Ethnic%20minorities%20\u0026amp;%20multicultural%20studies%20%5BJFSL1%5D%22\"\u003eJFSL1\u003c\/a\u003e], Russian Revolution [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Russian Revolution\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Russian%20Revolution%20%5BHBTV4%5D%22\"\u003eHBTV4\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45912990712088,"sku":"9781107425064","price":35.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107425064i_b1575cc2-605f-46a1-88ce-b609c0b496b3.jpg?v=1694486108","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-bolsheviks-and-the-russian-empire-paperback-9781107425064","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}