Breaking the Mold: New Research on the Civil War in the Baltics, Finland and Petrograd, 1919-1923

Session Submission Type: Panel

Affiliate Organization: Allan K. Wildman Group for the Study of Society, Politics, and Culture in the Russian Revolutionary Era

Brief Description

In 1919, Bolshevik army tactics as well as occupation policies impacted the outcomes of the Civil War in the Baltics, Finland and Petrograd. These three papers will explore local events within this context, developing a new interpretation of Zinoviev, the Orthodox Church and forces for autonomy and independence in this region.

Sub Unit

• History: 1900-1945

Chair

• Michael C. Hickey, Commonwealth-Bloomsburg U

Papers

• The City of the Red Plague: The Bolshevik Occupation of Riga, January – May 1919 - Andrew Huebner, U of North Texas

• Zinoviev and the Defense of Petrograd, 1919 - T. Clayton Black, Washington College

• Independence or Autonomy?: The Russian Orthodox Church in the Baltics and Finland during the Civil War - Scott M. Kenworthy, Miami U of Ohio

Discussant

• Alice K. Pate, Kennesaw State U