Gleb J. Albert
Biographical Note
Readership
Readers interested in the social and cultural history of revolutionary Russia and the early Soviet state, the international impact of revolutionary movements, the grass-roots history of international solidarity, and the entanglements of Soviet and European history.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Editorial Note
1 Introduction
2 ‘World Revolution’, the Bolsheviks and Soviet Society
1 Bolshevik Internationalism through the World War and Revolution
2 1918/19, 1923, 1926: Three World-Revolutionary ‘Windows of Opportunity’ in Their Soviet Reflection
3 Activists and the Charisma of World Revolution
1 Activists, Opportunists and Functionaries: Types of Early Soviet Political Actors
2 The World Revolution as a ‘Delightful Thing’
3 Communist World Society or Russian Domination? Activists Imagine the Future
4 Internationalist Practices I: Charisma and Activism between the Revolution and NEP
1 Informing, Performing and Intervening: Public Speech about the World Revolution
2 Internationalist Greeting Messages and Their Authors
3 The Bolshevik Provincial Press: From Activist Mouthpiece to ‘Mass’ Newspaper
5 Internationalism and the Soviet ‘Masses’
1 Ways and Means of Transmitting Internationalist Knowledge
2 Reactions of the ‘Masses’: Disinterest, Resistance, Appropriation
6 MOPR: The Institutionalisation of International Solidarity in the obshchestvennost’
7 International Practices II: Activism and obshchestvennost’ from NEP to Stalinism
1 Donations and Fundraising: Class Solidarity, Philanthropy and Entertainment
2 Objects and Subjects of ‘Shefstvo’: Comparing Two Types of International Sponsorship
3 Internationalist Pen Pal Correspondence – Collective and Individual
4 Banners Wanted: The Twists and Turns of International Flag Exchange
5 Dealing with Comrades from Abroad: Foreign Representatives of the Labour Movement in the Soviet Union
8 A Practice Forestalled: Going Abroad for the World Revolution
9 Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index