Spreading Insurgency: Industrial Development, Coalition-Building and Territorial Control in the 1917 Revolution in Russia

• In Event: Perspectives on Russian Political Development

Brief Overview

Drawing on novel historical sources and spatial data, we document the diffusion of territorial control of different revolutionary governments in Russia in 1917 and 1918 to advance theory of revolutionary coalition-building

Authors

• Igor Kolesnikov, University of California-Berkeley

• Vladimir Novikov, The University of Chicago