Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom 830s-1930s

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 00190066350
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780190066352
• Author: Faith Hillis

In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd’s Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe’s many “Russian colonies”–large and politically active communities of émigrés in London, Paris, and Geneva, among other cities. Thousands of fellow exiles who followed Lenin on his eastward trek in 1917 were in a similar predicament. The returnees plunged themselves into politics, competing to shape the future of a vast country recently liberated from tsarist rule. Yet these activists had been absent from their homeland for so long that their ideas reflected the Russia imagined by residents of the faraway colonies as much as they did events on the ground. The 1917 revolution marked the dawn of a new day in Russian politics, but it also represented the continuation of decades-long conversations that had begun in emigration and were exported back to Russia.

Table contents:

Part I Making Utopia Concrete
1. The Other Communards
2. Living the Revolution
3. Jewish Workers Meet the Russian Revolution
Part II Europe’s Russian Moment
4. Entangled Emancipations
5. Émigré Dystopias
Part III Revolutionary Repercussions
6. “The Party of Extreme Opposition”
7. Ou-topos?
8. Revolution from Abroad

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