Russia’s Home Front during the First World War

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel will discuss significant aspects of Russia’s performance during the First World War. The impact of climate, the ways in which the rural world was mobilized in support of the war effort and the effect of the arrival of hundreds of thousands of wounded men in Russia’s cities will each be considered. The panel aims at stimulating debate about the nature of Russia’s war experience in this centenary year.

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, 1800-1924

Chair

• Laurie S. Stoff, Arizona State U

Papers

• Friend or Foe? ‘General Winter’ and Tsarist Russia’s War Effort, 1914-1917 - Anthony John Heywood, U of Aberdeen (UK)

• Mobilizing the Countryside: The Importance of the Village Economy in the Russian War Effort - Aaron Benyamin Retish, Wayne State U

• Russia’s Wounded during the First World War: Medicine and Politics - Peter Waldron, U of East Anglia (UK)

Discussant

• Christopher Read, U of Warwick (UK)