Collective Biography as an Instrument for Examining Russia's Provisional Government in 1917

• In Event: Friendships, Rivalries, and Personal Networks as Factors in the 1917 Russian Revolution

Abstract

Orlovsky's paper examines aspects of the collective biography of officials serving in Russia's Provisional Government in 1917 and how consideration of professional networks and other webs of relationships and common experiences might revise historical understanding of the revolution.

Author

• Daniel T. Orlovsky, Southern Methodist U