The Revolution of 1905 and Its Aftermath in the Borderlands of the Russian Empire

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The Revolution of 1905 has long appeared as a fixed point in the historiographical firmament, with a series of famous set-pieces - Bloody Sunday, the Potemkin Mutiny - having become semi-mythologised in the Soviet era. The classic works on the topic mostly focused on revolution in the Imperial centres of Moscow and St Petersburg. This panel will seek to reappraise this seminal event in light of local histories from the empire's borderlands. Turkestan, Poland, Finland and the Caucasus were all affected by the turmoil of the imperial centre, but events there played out according to local and particular political dynamics. These will be the focus of the individual presentations on this panel, while comparisons across these borderlands will shed fresh light on the importance of the revolution in transforming the politics of the empire as a whole.

Sub Unit

• History: 1900-1945

Chair

• Ivan Sablin, Heidelberg U (Germany)

Papers

• Parliaments and Revolutions: Socialist State Crafting in the Russian Imperial Borderlands - Wiktor Marzec, U of Warsaw (Poland)/New Europe College, Bucharest

• A 'Russian' Revolution?: 1905 in Turkestan - Alexander Morrison, U of Oxford (UK)

Discussant

• Ivan Sablin, Heidelberg U (Germany)