States of Anxiety: Scarcity and Loss in Revolutionary Russia 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197610152,0197610153, 9780197610176, 019761017X

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• ISBN-10: 019761017X
• ISBN-13: 9780197610176
• Author: William G. Rosenberg

Amidst the vast literature on the parties and politics of revolutionary Russia and its near constant appropriation for presentist purposes over the years, States of Anxiety assesses the effects of the great scarcities and enormous losses that Russia experienced between 1914 and 1921, a period of dramatic civil conflicts and Russia’s “long World War.” Scarcities meant not only the deficits of necessary goods like food, but also their accompanying anxieties and fears. Using archival documents and materials of the period almost exclusively, this study explores how the tsarist, democratic liberal, democratic socialist, and Bolshevik regimes all addressed the forms and effects of scarcity and loss in ways they hoped would assure the revolutionary outcomes of their own historical imaginations. Looking closely at their efforts, it suggests how and why each failed to do so.

Table contents:

Part I: The Imperial Meanings of Scarcity and Loss

1. “Fighting with God” and the Languages of Loss

2. Was Russia Prepared?

3. “Dying of Hunger”: Representations and Realities of Scarcity

4. Empowering “Responsible Publics” and the Emergence of War Capitalism

5. Seeking Solutions, Drowning in Blood

6. Scripting Revolution

Part II: Revolutionary Imperatives

7. “Responsible Men in Whom the Country Has Confidence”: The Challenges of Revolutionary Governance

8. Addressing Scarcity, Confronting Loss

9. Social Conflict, Mediation, and the Revolutionary State

10. “Slaughter” at the Front, the July Insurrection, and a “Government to Save the Revolution”

11. The Collapse of War Capitalism

12. Democratic Predicaments and the Bolshevik Coup

Part III: From World War to Total War: Scarcity, Loss, and Dysfunctional Dictatorships after October

13. Circumstance, Ideology, and Bolshevik Power

14. “Our Lives Have Become Unbearable!”: Dictatorships in the “Fight against Hunger”

15. Violence, Loss, and the Collapse of War Communism

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