Aaron B Retish
Biographic Data
| ID | 1144870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron B Retish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron B |
| FAMILY NAME | Retish |
| SIGNATURE | RETISH A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2988-5394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives and Lenin will always Live!’ The Centenary of Lenin’s Death
Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Doing Research During Wartime: A View from the Regions
Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Dilemmas of Historical Research
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating a conflict that had been ongoing since Russia had seized Crimea in the aftermath of the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2014.In the intervening period, fighting had continued in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, but the invasion saw hundreds of tanks and thousands of troops cross the Ukrainian borders and head towards Kyiv.Widespread bombing accompanied the …
Russian Populism: A History
Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia’s world-historical literature, music and art in the 19th century. This book offers the fullest and most authoritative account of the rise, proliferation and influence of populist values and ideolo…
Larry E. Holmes
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The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, by Stefan B. Kirmse
The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, by Stefan B. Kirmse The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, by Stefan B. Kirmse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019; pp. 341. £75). Aaron B Retish Aaron B Retish Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review…
Introduction From Lenin’s Overcoat? The Global Impact of the Russian Revolution
As the Bolshevik seizure of power was well underway, Lenin spoke before the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets. Pulling a declaration from his coat, Lenin hailed the revolution of workers, peas
IntroductionSilences and noises: Commemorating 1917
In the introduction to the first issue of Revolutionary Russia in this centenary year, we commented that the official response to commemorating 1917 had been ‘underwhelming’ thus far, qualifying ou
Jonathan D. Smele. The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World
In The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World, Jonathan D. Smele attempts to bring Russia’s Civil War out of the shadows of the First World War and the 1917 Revolution and give it its proper scholarly due. As one of the most scarring, violent civil wars of the twentieth century, and as the first chapter of the Soviet experiment, the Civil War resonated far beyond the Russian national borders. In fact, one of Smele’s main …
The ‘lessons’ of 1917
So far this year, the response to the centenary of 1917 in Russia has been underwhelming. Faced with an event that does not fit neatly into the positive, patriotic and unifying version of Russian h
Breaking free from the prison walls: Penal reforms and prison life in revolutionary Russia
This article examines the attempts of early Soviet penal reformers and criminologists to turn prisons into institutions of discipline and rehabilitation for their inmates. Their proposed reforms championed a proletarian prisoner who with individual attention would become a full member of Soviet socialist society. However, the lack of resources and short sentences, alongside the upheaval of civil war, undermined these reforms with the result that …
Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory
Controlling Revolution: Understandings of Violence through the Rural Soviet Courts, 1917–1923
This essay is a study of how Soviet jurists and rural citizens attempted to understand and control illicit social violence during the Civil War and its immediate aftermath in the rural courts. It examines how Soviet leaders, people's courts and criminologists understood the role of the courts in controlling violence and how decisions of local courts actually limited the effects of the violence of revolution and civil war. It underscores the compl…
Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths, by Kevin M.F. Platt
Kevin Platt writes of the varied histories of the two foundational figures of Russian history—Tsar Ivan IV and Emperor Peter I. This is not a traditional retelling of the manner in which the myths of the two rulers grew. Instead, Platt uses a history of their mythologies to ask ‘Why did Imperial Russian and then Soviet political culture adopt despotic rulers, responsible for extraordinary violence, as heroic figures and avatars of social identity…
God v Permskoi gubernii: Sbornik dokumentov; Pervaia sovetskaia vesna v derevne: Krest′ianstvo Mariiskogo kraiia i zemel′nyi vopros v 1918 godu: Dokumenty i materialy
Creating peasant citizens: Rituals of power, rituals of citizenship in Viatka province, 1917
The February Revolution initiated a reinvention of the Russian nation. In Viatka province, elites and peasants created a new political world through administrative bodies, holidays, festivals and ceremonies. In the centre of this world was a debate about citizenship, power and how the peasantry should fit into the new Russian nation. Through these rituals elites tried to dictate to the peasantry their definition of peasant citizenship, which refl…
The ‘lessons’ of 1917
So far this year, the response to the centenary of 1917 in Russia has been underwhelming. Faced with an event that does not fit neatly into the positive, patriotic and unifying version of Russian h
Breaking free from the prison walls: Penal reforms and prison life in revolutionary Russia
This article examines the attempts of early Soviet penal reformers and criminologists to turn prisons into institutions of discipline and rehabilitation for their inmates. Their proposed reforms championed a proletarian prisoner who with individual attention would become a full member of Soviet socialist society. However, the lack of resources and short sentences, alongside the upheaval of civil war, undermined these reforms with the result that …
Creating peasant citizens: Rituals of power, rituals of citizenship in Viatka province, 1917
The February Revolution initiated a reinvention of the Russian nation. In Viatka province, elites and peasants created a new political world through administrative bodies, holidays, festivals and ceremonies. In the centre of this world was a debate about citizenship, power and how the peasantry should fit into the new Russian nation. Through these rituals elites tried to dictate to the peasantry their definition of peasant citizenship, which refl…
IntroductionSilences and noises: Commemorating 1917
In the introduction to the first issue of Revolutionary Russia in this centenary year, we commented that the official response to commemorating 1917 had been ‘underwhelming’ thus far, qualifying ou
Controlling Revolution: Understandings of Violence through the Rural Soviet Courts, 1917–1923
This essay is a study of how Soviet jurists and rural citizens attempted to understand and control illicit social violence during the Civil War and its immediate aftermath in the rural courts. It examines how Soviet leaders, people's courts and criminologists understood the role of the courts in controlling violence and how decisions of local courts actually limited the effects of the violence of revolution and civil war. It underscores the compl…
Creating peasant citizens: Rituals of power, rituals of citizenship in Viatka province, 1917
The February Revolution initiated a reinvention of the Russian nation. In Viatka province, elites and peasants created a new political world through administrative bodies, holidays, festivals and ceremonies. In the centre of this world was a debate about citizenship, power and how the peasantry should fit into the new Russian nation. Through these rituals elites tried to dictate to the peasantry their definition of peasant citizenship, which refl…
God v Permskoi gubernii: Sbornik dokumentov; Pervaia sovetskaia vesna v derevne: Krest′ianstvo Mariiskogo kraiia i zemel′nyi vopros v 1918 godu: Dokumenty i materialy
Karen Petrone, The Great War in Russian Memory
Controlling Revolution: Understandings of Violence through the Rural Soviet Courts, 1917–1923
This essay is a study of how Soviet jurists and rural citizens attempted to understand and control illicit social violence during the Civil War and its immediate aftermath in the rural courts. It examines how Soviet leaders, people's courts and criminologists understood the role of the courts in controlling violence and how decisions of local courts actually limited the effects of the violence of revolution and civil war. It underscores the compl…
Terror and Greatness: Ivan and Peter as Russian Myths, by Kevin M.F. Platt
Kevin Platt writes of the varied histories of the two foundational figures of Russian history—Tsar Ivan IV and Emperor Peter I. This is not a traditional retelling of the manner in which the myths of the two rulers grew. Instead, Platt uses a history of their mythologies to ask ‘Why did Imperial Russian and then Soviet political culture adopt despotic rulers, responsible for extraordinary violence, as heroic figures and avatars of social identity…
IntroductionSilences and noises: Commemorating 1917
In the introduction to the first issue of Revolutionary Russia in this centenary year, we commented that the official response to commemorating 1917 had been ‘underwhelming’ thus far, qualifying ou
Jonathan D. Smele. The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World
In The “Russian” Civil Wars, 1916–1926: Ten Years That Shook the World, Jonathan D. Smele attempts to bring Russia’s Civil War out of the shadows of the First World War and the 1917 Revolution and give it its proper scholarly due. As one of the most scarring, violent civil wars of the twentieth century, and as the first chapter of the Soviet experiment, the Civil War resonated far beyond the Russian national borders. In fact, one of Smele’s main …
The ‘lessons’ of 1917
So far this year, the response to the centenary of 1917 in Russia has been underwhelming. Faced with an event that does not fit neatly into the positive, patriotic and unifying version of Russian h
Breaking free from the prison walls: Penal reforms and prison life in revolutionary Russia
This article examines the attempts of early Soviet penal reformers and criminologists to turn prisons into institutions of discipline and rehabilitation for their inmates. Their proposed reforms championed a proletarian prisoner who with individual attention would become a full member of Soviet socialist society. However, the lack of resources and short sentences, alongside the upheaval of civil war, undermined these reforms with the result that …
Introduction From Lenin’s Overcoat? The Global Impact of the Russian Revolution
As the Bolshevik seizure of power was well underway, Lenin spoke before the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets. Pulling a declaration from his coat, Lenin hailed the revolution of workers, peas
The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, by Stefan B. Kirmse
The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, by Stefan B. Kirmse The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia, by Stefan B. Kirmse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019; pp. 341. £75). Aaron B Retish Aaron B Retish Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review…
Russian Populism: A History
Russian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia’s world-historical literature, music and art in the 19th century. This book offers the fullest and most authoritative account of the rise, proliferation and influence of populist values and ideolo…
Larry E. Holmes
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Social Control under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State
Doing Research During Wartime: A View from the Regions
Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Dilemmas of Historical Research
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, escalating a conflict that had been ongoing since Russia had seized Crimea in the aftermath of the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2014.In the intervening period, fighting had continued in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, but the invasion saw hundreds of tanks and thousands of troops cross the Ukrainian borders and head towards Kyiv.Widespread bombing accompanied the …
Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives and Lenin will always Live!’ The Centenary of Lenin’s Death
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