Matthew Rendle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1594981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Rendle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Rendle |
| SIGNATURE | RENDLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lenin Lived, Lenin Lives and Lenin will always Live!’ The Centenary of Lenin’s Death
Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Legacy of the ‘Archival Revolution’
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 …
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
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
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
Making Sense of 1917
It is clear that the global impact of the Russian Revolution over the last century has been immense. What is less clear, however, is the global impactonthe revolution. Historians have appreciated that contemporaries made immediate comparisons with previous revolutions, especially the French Revolution and the Paris Commune, but considerations of broader global influences on the revolution have been rare. This article explores how historians can s…
Inspiring a 'fourth revolution'? The modern revolutionary tradition and the problems surrounding the commemoration of 1917 in 2017 in Russia
There has been much written about the official commemorations of 1917 in Soviet Russia, but after 1991 the revolution became a contentious event and it is unclear how the state will commemorate the centenary. It is too big to ignore, but potentially dangerous politically. After the ‘colour revolutions’ and the Arab Spring, revolution has been associated with instability, violence and terror, and is used to justify increasingly authoritarian and i…
The battle for spaces and places in Russia's civil war
After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks needed to battle to control Russia's urban and rural spaces to win the war, exert state power and transform mentalities. This article argues that revolutionary tribunals played an important role by organizing travelling sessions to reach beyond abstract spaces into the familiar places central to people's everyday lives. They held trials in public squares, workers' clubs, passenger waiting halls and oth…
Quantifying Counter-Revolution
This essay uses the numerous statistics produced by revolutionary tribunals to explore the nature of counter-revolution after the October Revolution, how it changed and developed across the Civil War, and the importance of revolutionary justice, as represented by tribunals, in facilitating the Bolsheviks’ victory. Statistics are unreliable sources and the state faced many problems in gathering data, but these figures permit us to explore key area…
Mercy amid Terror? The Role of Amnesties during Russia's Civil War
Accepted Manuscript deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.3.0449
Defining the ‘Political’ Crime
After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks established revolutionary tribunals to judge ‘counter-revolutionary’ and ‘political’ crimes. Amid conflicting reports from contemporaries on the effectiveness of these new courts, this essay examines their development over the first year of their existence. It argues that whilst tribunals were initially too inefficient for the regime, forcing greater central control over them, they played an important …
Oleg Budnitskii. Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920
This is a faithful translation of Oleg Budnitskii's Russian-language book of the same title published in Moscow in 2005. Budnitskii provides the most comprehensive account so far of the experiences of Russia's Jews during the revolution and civil war, and he analyzes the role of the “Jewish Question” across this period. In doing so, he makes a major contribution to the study of Russia's Jews and of the Russian Revolution more generally. Budnitski…
Forging a Revolutionary Army
The Russian military was deeply divided after the February Revolution of 1917, but if Russia was to emerge victorious from the First World War, it needed to forge a unified revolutionary army. This article examines the only serious attempt to foster unity, the All-Russian Military Union. While the union was not successful, a study of its activities emphasizes that divisions existed within social groups in the military as well as between them, whi…
Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution
Theodore R. Weeks, Across the Revolutionary Divide
Revolutionary tribunals and the origins of terror in early Soviet Russia
After the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks restructured Russia's legal system, assigning the central role in targeting their enemies to revolutionary tribunals. Within months, however, this ‘revolutionary justice’ was marginalized in favour of the secret police (Cheka) and a policy of terror. This article utilizes the archives of three tribunals, contemporary writings, newspapers and memoirs to examine the tribunals' investigations and …
Defenders of the Motherland
The Problems of `Becoming Soviet
Copyright © 2008 SAGE Publications
The Officer Corps, Professionalism, and Democracy in the Russian Revolution
Russia's ‘democratic’ revolution of February 1917 saw all types of professions and social groups mobilize into unions and congresses to articulate their demands. Lower and middle classes dominated, but it is notable how former elite groups were quick to form bodies to defend their interests and to promote their visions of Russia's future. Historians have invariably dismissed these groups as marginal to the revolutionary process and inherently ‘co…
Featured Title
Family, Kinship and Revolution
This article examines the importance of family and kin to the Russian nobility during the Russian Revolution. It focuses on the experiences of four interrelated families to show how nobles used family connections for a variety of purposes prior to I9I7. This helped them to maintain their predominant position within tsarist society. The article argues that these links continued after the revolution, helping nobles survive everyday hardship and off…
The symbolic revolution
This article examines the role of symbols and language in the Russian Revolution from the perspective of the former ruling class – the nobility. Nobles were more favourable to a political revolution than many historians have assumed, but they were opposed to social change, a key demand of the lower classes. The symbolic revolution not only forced the nobility to perceive the wider implications of February but also helped to exacerbate the social …
Making Sense of 1917
It is clear that the global impact of the Russian Revolution over the last century has been immense. What is less clear, however, is the global impactonthe revolution. Historians have appreciated that contemporaries made immediate comparisons with previous revolutions, especially the French Revolution and the Paris Commune, but considerations of broader global influences on the revolution have been rare. This article explores how historians can s…
Revolutionary tribunals and the origins of terror in early Soviet Russia
After the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks restructured Russia's legal system, assigning the central role in targeting their enemies to revolutionary tribunals. Within months, however, this ‘revolutionary justice’ was marginalized in favour of the secret police (Cheka) and a policy of terror. This article utilizes the archives of three tribunals, contemporary writings, newspapers and memoirs to examine the tribunals' investigations and …
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
Mercy amid Terror? The Role of Amnesties during Russia's Civil War
Accepted Manuscript deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.3.0449
Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Legacy of the ‘Archival Revolution’
IntroductionSilences and noises
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
Defining the ‘Political’ Crime
After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks established revolutionary tribunals to judge ‘counter-revolutionary’ and ‘political’ crimes. Amid conflicting reports from contemporaries on the effectiveness of these new courts, this essay examines their development over the first year of their existence. It argues that whilst tribunals were initially too inefficient for the regime, forcing greater central control over them, they played an important …
The Problems of `Becoming Soviet
Copyright © 2008 SAGE Publications
Family, Kinship and Revolution
This article examines the importance of family and kin to the Russian nobility during the Russian Revolution. It focuses on the experiences of four interrelated families to show how nobles used family connections for a variety of purposes prior to I9I7. This helped them to maintain their predominant position within tsarist society. The article argues that these links continued after the revolution, helping nobles survive everyday hardship and off…
The symbolic revolution
This article examines the role of symbols and language in the Russian Revolution from the perspective of the former ruling class – the nobility. Nobles were more favourable to a political revolution than many historians have assumed, but they were opposed to social change, a key demand of the lower classes. The symbolic revolution not only forced the nobility to perceive the wider implications of February but also helped to exacerbate the social …
Featured Title
The Problems of `Becoming Soviet
Copyright © 2008 SAGE Publications
The Officer Corps, Professionalism, and Democracy in the Russian Revolution
Russia's ‘democratic’ revolution of February 1917 saw all types of professions and social groups mobilize into unions and congresses to articulate their demands. Lower and middle classes dominated, but it is notable how former elite groups were quick to form bodies to defend their interests and to promote their visions of Russia's future. Historians have invariably dismissed these groups as marginal to the revolutionary process and inherently ‘co…
Defenders of the Motherland
Revolutionary tribunals and the origins of terror in early Soviet Russia
After the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks restructured Russia's legal system, assigning the central role in targeting their enemies to revolutionary tribunals. Within months, however, this ‘revolutionary justice’ was marginalized in favour of the secret police (Cheka) and a policy of terror. This article utilizes the archives of three tribunals, contemporary writings, newspapers and memoirs to examine the tribunals' investigations and …
Forging a Revolutionary Army
The Russian military was deeply divided after the February Revolution of 1917, but if Russia was to emerge victorious from the First World War, it needed to forge a unified revolutionary army. This article examines the only serious attempt to foster unity, the All-Russian Military Union. While the union was not successful, a study of its activities emphasizes that divisions existed within social groups in the military as well as between them, whi…
Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution
Theodore R. Weeks, Across the Revolutionary Divide
Defining the ‘Political’ Crime
After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks established revolutionary tribunals to judge ‘counter-revolutionary’ and ‘political’ crimes. Amid conflicting reports from contemporaries on the effectiveness of these new courts, this essay examines their development over the first year of their existence. It argues that whilst tribunals were initially too inefficient for the regime, forcing greater central control over them, they played an important …
Oleg Budnitskii. Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917-1920
This is a faithful translation of Oleg Budnitskii's Russian-language book of the same title published in Moscow in 2005. Budnitskii provides the most comprehensive account so far of the experiences of Russia's Jews during the revolution and civil war, and he analyzes the role of the “Jewish Question” across this period. In doing so, he makes a major contribution to the study of Russia's Jews and of the Russian Revolution more generally. Budnitski…
Mercy amid Terror? The Role of Amnesties during Russia's Civil War
Accepted Manuscript deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.3.0449
Quantifying Counter-Revolution
This essay uses the numerous statistics produced by revolutionary tribunals to explore the nature of counter-revolution after the October Revolution, how it changed and developed across the Civil War, and the importance of revolutionary justice, as represented by tribunals, in facilitating the Bolsheviks’ victory. Statistics are unreliable sources and the state faced many problems in gathering data, but these figures permit us to explore key area…
IntroductionSilences and noises
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
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
Making Sense of 1917
It is clear that the global impact of the Russian Revolution over the last century has been immense. What is less clear, however, is the global impactonthe revolution. Historians have appreciated that contemporaries made immediate comparisons with previous revolutions, especially the French Revolution and the Paris Commune, but considerations of broader global influences on the revolution have been rare. This article explores how historians can s…
Inspiring a 'fourth revolution'? The modern revolutionary tradition and the problems surrounding the commemoration of 1917 in 2017 in Russia
There has been much written about the official commemorations of 1917 in Soviet Russia, but after 1991 the revolution became a contentious event and it is unclear how the state will commemorate the centenary. It is too big to ignore, but potentially dangerous politically. After the ‘colour revolutions’ and the Arab Spring, revolution has been associated with instability, violence and terror, and is used to justify increasingly authoritarian and i…
The battle for spaces and places in Russia's civil war
After the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks needed to battle to control Russia's urban and rural spaces to win the war, exert state power and transform mentalities. This article argues that revolutionary tribunals played an important role by organizing travelling sessions to reach beyond abstract spaces into the familiar places central to people's everyday lives. They held trials in public squares, workers' clubs, passenger waiting halls and oth…
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
Russia’s War on Ukraine and the Legacy of the ‘Archival Revolution’
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
Political science (21 works) · Law (15 works) · History (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Soviet and Russian History (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economic history (9 works) · History (9 works) · Political economy (7 works)