Family Networks and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1870-1940

• Main Author: Turton, Katy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Social history.; World politics.; Families.; Families-Social aspects.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Social History.; Political History.; Family.

This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime. While revolutionaries were expected to sever all family ties or at the very least put political concerns before personal ones, in practice this was rarely achieved. In the...