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SUMMARY:Reflections on the Russian Revolution - Professor Dominic Lieven 
DTSTART:20171026T163000Z
DTEND:20171026T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The Russian Revolution can be approached from many angles. I s
 hall begin by recounting briefly the strange fates of my grandfather and h
 is siblings during the years of revolution: this is history from "below" a
 nd the chaotic and often counter-intuitive story it tells is a useful anti
 dote to over-schematic retrospective surveys by historians of what happene
 d. I will then look at how Western interpretations of the revolution have 
 evolved since I began my career in the mid 1970s. From there I will discus
 s a number of possible scenarios for how matters might have turned out in 
 the pre-revolutionary period as well as in 1917-21.This will go far to exp
 laining my views on both why the Bolsheviks won and what their victory mea
 nt for Russia. The second half of the lecture will largely be devoted to e
 xplaining the impact of the external context\, including the First World W
 ar\, on the Revolution's course\, outcome and longer-term consequences. Ab
 ove all this lecture will be an international historian's perspective on t
 he Revolution.
LOCATION:Umney Theatre\, Robinson College
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