The Russian Revolution of 1905

Jonathan D. Smele, Anthony Heywood

This book presents new perspectives and fresh insight into the roles of national and religious minorities and the parts played by individuals, social groups, political parties and institutions in the 1905 Russian revolution.

List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Note on style, 1. Introduction, 2. Psychohistorical approaches to 1905 radicalism, 3. 1905: the view from the provinces, 4. The 1905 Revolution in Russiäs Baltic provinces, 5. Finland in 1905: the political and social history of the revolution, 6. Revolution and revolt in the Manchurian armies, as perceived by a future leader of the White movement, 7. Retrospectively revolting: Kazan Tatar `conspiracies¿ during the 1905 Revolution, 8. Peasant protest and peasant violence in 1905: Voronezh province, Ostrogozhskii uezd, 9. Jews and revolution in Kharkiv: how one Ukrainian city escaped a pogrom in 1905, 10. Socialists, liberals and the Union of Unions in Kyiv during the 1905 Revolution: an engineer¿s perspective, 11. Kadet domination of the First Duma and its limits, 12. Lenin and the 1905 Revolution, 13. Leon Trotsky and 1905, 14. The 1905 Revolution on Tyneside, Index