Getting Started

1. Encyclopedia Britannica Online: "Russian Revolution of 1917"

Link: https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution-of-1917

Citation: The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. (n.d.). Russian Revolution of 1917. Retrieved May 1, 2017, from https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution-of-1917

This Encyclopedia Britannica entry on the “Russian Revolution” provides a cursory outline of the events and outcomes of the year 1917. The entry is useful as a timeline of pivotal moments and also for its links to other related topics such as the Bolshevik party, Vladimir Lenin, International Women’s Day, and much more.

2. Seventeen Moments in Soviet History: 1917

Link: http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2

Citation: 1917. (2015, June 7). Retrieved May 1, 2017, from http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1917-2/

Seventeen Moments in Soviet History is a multimedia encyclopedia that covers seventeen pivotal years and themes in the Soviet Union’s history between 1917 and 1991. The section on 1917 offers twenty eight short articles on different events (such as “The Bolsheviks Seize Power”) and themes (such as “The New Woman”) that defined that year in Russian history. Each article is accompanied by relevant photographs, videos, or artwork collected from public digital archives and the site offers a glossary of terms to help new readers of Soviet history.

3. 1917: Free History

Link: https://project1917.com/

Citation: 1917: Free History. (2017). Retrieved May 1, 2017, from https://project1917.com

“1917: Free History” is a public history project that is simulating the events of 1917 in the year 2017 on social media platforms. Relying on archival material from across the world, a team of journalists and artists have recreated the world of the major and minor characters who played a role or whose lives were forever changed by the Russian revolutions of 1917. Updates on Yandex and Twitter unfold in real time to correspond with the day the events originally took place 100 years ago. You can browse entries by day or by a character. Next to each entry, users will find a link directing them to the original document from which the text is taken.

4. October, the Story of the Russian Revolution

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Citation: Miéville, C. (2017). October: the story of the Russian Revolution. London ; Brooklyn, NY: Verso.

One of the most recently published and critically acclaimed accounts of the 1917 revolution, this book recounts Russia's rise as the world's first socialist state. Mieville, who usually writes science fiction and fantasy novels, provides a sweeping and gripping account of the revolution written for an audience not intimately familiar with Russian history.

5. The Russian Revolution

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Citation: Fitzpatrick, S. (2008). The Russian Revolution (3rd ed.). Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

In this work, Fitzpatrick relies on archival material to describe the February and October revolutions, the civil war, and the significant events that followed, including Stalin's purges of the 1930s. What will be especially helpful to new readers of Russian history is Fitzpatrick's bibliography in the back of the book which outlines recent significant scholarly work on the subject.

6. The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921

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Citation: Steinberg, M. (2017). The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

This book covers the causes and preceding events of the revolution in addition to its consequences and the proceeding years following the Russian revolution. This account of events written authoritatively and neutrally by Steinburg looks not only at how events unfolded in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also at the periphery of the empire in Central Asia, Ukraine, and the Caucasus.

7. The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 : A Bibliographic Guide to Works in English

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Citation: Frame, M. (1995). The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921: a bibliographic guide to works in English. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

This volume, part of the “Bibliographies and Indexes in World History” series published by Greenwood press, includes titles of seminal works such as monographs, articles, and dissertations published between 1905 to 1994 related to the Russian revolution. These works are arranged thematically under twenty four topics such as “politics and society” or “science and technology.” Indexes of authors and subjects are provided in the back of the book.