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UCD Library Collection Spotlight: Russia on the Eve of War and Revolution
Russia on the Eve of War and Revolution
The Russian Revolution During WWI (videos)
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Summary
Until recently, the First World War was understood largely in terms of the trenches of the Western front, but its impact in the East was more dramatic, and nowhere more so than in Russia, where it swept away the 300-year old Romanov dynasty, replacing it first with a short-lived liberal experiment and then with the Bolsheviks’ radical revolution. In the chaos and violence that ensued, a sophisticated, elite culture was also annihilated. Russia in the early 20th century was not a stable society, however: the monarchy was nearly toppled by a popular revolution in 1905 and remained deeply divided, politically and socially, in its wake. In this display we point to some of the achievements and tensions that beset Russia, in the period between the turn of the century and 1918.
Chosen Titles
Among the works we have chosen (see below), the catalogue Twilight of the Tsars illustrates the beauties of the Russian art nouveau; Andrei Bely’s symbolist novel Petersburg (1913),concerns a terrorist plot - a metaphor, according to Bely, for the threat the elemental Russia posed to its European elite culture. In Voices of Revolution, you can read the petitions and letters of the soldiers and workers who in 1917 pushed the revolution further to the left, while the Fall of the Romanovs reproduces documents once hidden in the Soviet archives.
-Dr. Judith Devlin, UCD School of History
Items from our Collection
October 1917: Ten Days That Shook the World by Sergei Eisenstein
Call Number: 791.43 OCTPublication Date: 2000Photography in Russia 1840-1940 by David Elliott, ed.
Call Number: 770 ELLISBN: 0500974047Publication Date: 1992The Keys to Happiness by Laura Engelstein
Call Number: (ebook)ISBN: 0801426642Publication Date: 1992-12-03The Twilight of the Tsars: Russian Art at the Turn of the Century by Michael Raeburn, ed.
Call Number: 709.47 TWIISBN: 9781853320682Publication Date: 1991Petersburg: Das Laboratorium Der Moderne: 1909-1921 by Karl Schlögel
Call Number: 947.21 SCHISBN: 9783596167203Publication Date: 2009Voices of Revolution 1917 by Mark D. Steinberg; Marian Schwartz (Translator)
Call Number: 947.084 STEISBN: 0300101694Publication Date: 2003-09-10The Fall of the Romanovs by Mark D. Steinberg; Vladimir M. Khrustalëv
Call Number: 947.08 NIC 11/SISBN: 0300070675Publication Date: 1997-02-27Street Art of the Revolution: Festivals and Celebrations in Russia 1918-1933 by Vladimir Tolstoy et al., eds.
Call Number: 759.7 TOLISBN: 0500235627Publication Date: 1990
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