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Dreams of Emancipation

Dreams of Emancipation

A Transnational History of Revolutionary Russia

Series: Imperial Encounters in Russian History

Edited by Norihiro Naganawa

Published by: Academic Studies Press

Imprint: Academic Studies Press

Language: English

240 Pages

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Given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, why do emancipation messages that emanated from Russia count? Navigating multilingual sources, this book addresses the role of Russia’s multiethnic society and borderlands in generating kaleidoscopic repercussions of its 1917 Revolution. It also sees the USSR’s interactions with its neighboring countries as a crucible of the Soviet modality of communism. The book shows how the collapse of the Russian Empire further released a vast range of liberationist projects and dreams, far from confined to the goals of Bolshevism, in its borderlands and beyond, and how the Soviet Union became a highly ambiguous source of emancipatory inspiration in the long twentieth century overshadowing today’s global politics.

Introduction: Russia’s Empire and Emancipation Dreams in the Long Twentieth Century

Norihiro Naganawa

Occupation as Liberation: The 1917 Experience in Russia’s Occupied Territories (Ottoman Eastern Anatolia and Austrian Galicia)

Peter Holquist

Regionalism and Federalism in the Revolutionary Caucasus

Sarah Slye

Revolution from Abroad: Siberian Regionalists and the Struggle for the Russian State

David Rainbow

The Warlord as Liberator: “Rights Recovery” and the Revolution in Harbin

Yuexin Rachel Lin

Making an Anti-Imperialist Empire: Soviets’ Entanglements with Central Asia, Iran, and the Red Sea in the 1920s

Norihiro Naganawa

A Net Balance? Soviet-Turkish Economic Relations in the Interwar Period

Samuel J. Hirst

Poland, Ukraine, and the Limits of Socialist Friendship: How a Polish Diplomat Tried and Failed to Overcome Ethnic Rifts in the Soviet Bloc, 1944-64

Zbigniew Wojnowski

Rediscovering Lenin, Reinventing the Collective: Revolutionary Ideals in Post-Stalinist and Post-Maoist Transitions

Martin Wagner

Afterword

Adeeb Khalid

Norihiro Naganawa is a historian of modern Central Eurasia and a professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University. His works have appeared in Slavic Review, Kritika, Ab Imperio, and Religion, State & Society. He is the author of an award-winning book Islamic Russia: Empire, Religion, and Public Sphere, 1905-1917.