Vanessa Rampton (ETH Zurich): The Impossibility of Conservatism? Insights from Russian History. Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville; The Russian Revolution 1905-1921 by Mark D. Steinberg; Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S.A. Smith; The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin; and Historically Inevitable? Turning Points of the Russian Revolution by Tony Brenton. Was Stalin’s terror his doing alone, or was mass violence an intrinsic part of Bolshevism? An answer in the Soviet archives. The first chapter from Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes by Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua A. Tucker. The spectre of revolution: Ilya Kalinin on how Putin will be commemorating 1917.
