Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR
1861-1945 offers a broad interpretive account of Russian
history from the emancipation of the serfs to the end of World War
II.
* Provides a coherent overview of Russia’s development from 1861
through to 1945
* Reflects the latest scholarship by taking a thematic approach
to Russian history and bridging the ‘revolutionary
divide’ of 1917
* Covers political, economic, cultural, and everyday life issues
during a period of major changes in Russian history
* Addresses throughout the diversity of national groups,
cultures, and religions in the Russian Empire and USSR
* Shows how the radical policies adopted after 1917 both changed
Russia and perpetuated an economic and political rigidity that
continues to influence modern society
Table of Content
Illustrations viii
Series Editor’s Preface ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
1. Politics 18
2. Society 53
3. Nations 87
4. Modernization 117
5. Belief 147
6. World 175
7. Culture 204
Conclusion 234
Timeline 248
Notes 252
Select Bibliography 269
Index 275
About the author
Theodore R. Weeks is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is author of Nation and State in Late Imperial Russia (1996) and From Assimilation to Antisemitism: The ‘Jewish Question’ in Poland, 1855 to 1914 (2006).
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