Revolutionary Aftereffects: Material, Social, and Cultural Legacies of 1917 in Russia Today

Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1917 Revolution still looms large: not only because Russians remain divided over whether the revolution arrived forcibly or inevitably and whether it was a colossally tragic or colossally generative event, but also because its social, cultural, scientific, and even moral residues remain everywhere in Putin’s Russia.

Revolutionary Aftereffects looks at the ways in which 1917 has been and continues to be commemorated in Russia. Although pos...