How can we understand women’s role in political violence and terrorism? James Crossland discusses the role of Russian women in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
Tag: Russian Revolution
‘Communism’: An Intellectual Genealogy
Seamus Flaherty on the history of a word which has surged back into public discourse this year.
Radical Books: Alexander Radishchev, ‘Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow’ (1790)
The ‘most notorious book in Russian history’: Jennifer Keating on Alexander Radishchev’s radical critique of autocracy, banned by Catherine the Great over a century before the Russian Revolution.
Peace History Conference: 1917 – 4 November, Salford
The Peace History Conference and the Working Class Movement Library present a day exploring the effects of the Russian Revolutions on the British labour and peace movements.
The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic: 13-15 October, Preston
Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 13-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the Russian Revolution.
Centenary of the 1917 Leeds Convention
On the 100th anniversary of this historic Labour and Socialist Convention, the Ford-Maguire Society and Leeds TUC are holding a one-day event at the Swarthmore Centre in Leeds on Saturday 3 June 2017 from 10-4pm.
The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic
CALL FOR PAPERS: Institute for Black Atlantic Research marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution, 14-15 Oct 2017
