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Imagining the Future in Russiaâs February Revolution of 1917
Instant Voices in the Press Across the Empire
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A vibrant plurality of voices emerged after the collapse of tsarism in the Russian Empire and the introduction of press freedom in the spring of 1917. Twenty essays in this anthology explore a variety of newspapers and their visions of the future in response to the February Revolution. The collection takes a broad view. It features press landscapes of the metropoles of Petrograd and Moscow as well as the provincial press from across the empire, including, alongside Russian-language periodicals, newspapers in Arabic, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. The February Revolution is re-evaluated as a moment of genuine possibility, awakening hopes for a democratic future. Rather than viewing February 1917 retrospectively through the lens of the October Revolution, this volume restores the sense of openness and contingency that shaped revolutionary experiences.
Franziska Schedewie is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Jena and currently DFG Heisenberg Fellow. She is co-editor of âThe Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolutionâ (ed. by Geoffrey Swain et al., 2023). Dennis Dierks received his PhD from the University of Jena and is currently a Researcher at Leipzig University, focusing on the history of remembrance, nationalism, revolution, reform, and the global circulation of ideas.