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Dreams of Revolution: Oklahoma, 1917

Monthly Review, 2010
In August 1917, tenant farmers and sharecroppers in several eastern and southern Oklahoma counties took up arms to overthrow the United States government, to stop military conscription and U.S. entry into the war in Europe. Renegade Socialists, organized in their own “Working Class Union” (WCU), white, black, and Indian, they believed that millions of ...
John Womack, Jr., Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
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1917: Code of Revolution

Revolutionary Russia, 2017
The exhibition ‘1917: Code of Revolution’ opened on 22 March at the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, in Moscow.
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Russian Revolution of 1917

2017
Combining reference entries and examination of primary documents from the Russian Revolution, this book gives students a better understanding of how and why political forces fought to reshape the Russian empire 100 years ago—and provides keen insights into the Soviet Union that resulted.
Sean N. Kalic, Gates M. Brown
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Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917.

The American Historical Review, 1993
Preface Introduction: 1917: Revolution and historical alternatives Jonathan Frankel Part I. Political Power and Mass Action: 1. Soviets as agents of democratization Israel Getzler 2. Political power in the Russian Revolution: a case study of Saratov Donald J. Raleigh 3. The Red Guards, spontaneity, and the October Revolution Rex A. Wade 4.
Vladimir Brovkin, Edith Rogovin Frankel
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The revolutions of 1917–1918

2006
On 23 February 1917 thousands of female textile workers and housewives took to the streets of Petrograd to protest against the bread shortage and to mark International Women's Day. Their protest occurred against a background of industrial unrest and their demonstration quickly drew in workers.
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The Revolution of February 1917

1980
Modern war imposes a terrible burden on society. If victory is feasible then a nation may hold together. Faced with almost certain defeat a society is more likely than not to disintegrate. Two great empires, one in Russia, the other in Austria-Hungary, found the demands of modern war too much for them.
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Voices of Revolution, 1917

The Slavic and East European Journal, 2005
Martha Weitzel Hickey, Mark D. Steinberg
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The Russian Revolution: Broadening Understandings of 1917

History Compass, 2007
Abstract The rich historiography of the revolution has tended to focus around urban and political elites, labour history and events in Petrograd and to a lesser extent Moscow. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened previously inaccessible archives and shifted the ideological battlegrounds ranged over by scholars of the Russian ...
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