Utopias Discontents Hillis Faith Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of History University of Chicago
Utopias Discontents Hillis Faith Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of History University of Chicago In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on…
Specifikacia Utopias Discontents Hillis Faith Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of History University of Chicago
Utopias Discontents Hillis Faith Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of History University of Chicago
In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. Thousands of fellow exiles who followed Lenin on his eastward trek in 1917 were in a similar predicament. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian colonies"--large and politically active communities of �migr�s in London, Paris, and Geneva, among other cities.
The 1917 revolution marked the dawn of a new day in Russian politics, but it also The returnees plunged themselves into politics, competing to shape the future of a vast country recently liberated from tsarist rule.Yet these activists had been absent from their homeland for so long that their ideas reflected the Russia imagined by residents of the faraway colonies as much as they did events on the ground.