Russia's Land in War and Revolution, 1914-1922: Fields, Forests, Gardens

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

Land was of central importance in agriculturally-based Russia in the great war and revolution. Land had meaning as economic resource, as an element of home-front mobilization, as reward for peasants' war-time service, as revolutionary spoils. The three papers in this panel, all based on original archival research, address these complex and contested meanings and uses of Russian fields, forests, and gardens across the "revolutionary divide" of 1917. They also constitute part of a larger exploration of the Russian home front, being based on essays that will appear in the three home front volumes of the international scholarly project "Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922."

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, 1800-1924

Organizer

• Melissa Kirschke Stockdale, U of Oklahoma

Chair

• Melissa Kirschke Stockdale, U of Oklahoma

Papers

• Land for Service: Russian Peasant Views of a Postwar Land Settlement during World War I - Colleen M Moore, Florida Southern College

• Russia’s Forests in War and Revolution: Resources, Impacts, Plans, and Realities - Brian Bonhomme, Youngstown State U

• Gardening for Home and Country: Kitchen Gardens in World War I Russia - Christine Ruane, U of Tulsa

Discussant

• Adele Lindenmeyr, Villanova U