Geoffrey Swain
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Swain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Swain |
| SIGNATURE | SWAIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6580-5323 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lady Muriel Paget’s Mission to Daugavpils (Part II)
In February 1920, Lady Muriel Paget established a children’s hospital in Daugavpils. It was the start of a relief Mission which operated until the autumn of 1922, taking the form eventually of infant welfare clinics and feeding kitchens. From the start of 1921, this Mission was broadened to include Riga and, eventually, Tallinn and Kaunas; but the core of the operation remained Daugavpils. This article explores the centrality of Daugavpils to the…
Lady Muriel Paget’s Mission to Daugavpils (Part I)
In February 1920, Lady Muriel Paget established a children’s hospital in Daugavpils. It was the start of a relief Mission which operated until the autumn of 1922, taking the form eventually of infant welfare clinics and feeding kitchens. From the start of 1921, this Mission was broadened to include Riga and, ultimately, Tallinn and Kaunas; but the core of the operation remained Daugavpils. This article explores the centrality of Daugavpils to the…
British Adventurers and Revolutionary Russia’s War over Bessarabia
For the first three months of 1918, Soviet Russia and Romania fought a revolutionary war, and yet the two countries were so recently allies in the struggle against the Central Powers. This article explores the question of British support for Romania from Russia as the Bolsheviks took power and efforts to bring this unnecessaryfrom an Allied perspectivewar to an end. Part adventure story, it has a serious subtext
More Thoughts on Grandma’s Whiskers
No abstract available
The Bolshevik Anti-Anarchist Action of Spring 1918
This article sets the context for and the motivation behind the Bolshevik action to suppress the Moscow Anarchists on 11–12 April 1918. It explores the Anarchist view that in October 1917 a tactical alliance between Anarchists and Bolsheviks was essential to move the revolution forward, but that such an alliance was only temporary and would simply be a precursor to a genuinely popular third revolution which would shortly follow. The article sugge…
Moscow 1956. The Silenced Spring
Peasants, Power, and Place. Revolution in the Villages of Kharkiv Province, 1914–1921
No abstract available
The Centenary of the Russian Revolution: New Directions in Research
No abstract available
Khrushchev
County Health Rankings
Confronting Capitalism
Behind the Iron Curtain. Soviet Estonia in the Era of the Cold War
Behind the Iron Curtain. Soviet Estonia in the Era of the Cold War." Europe-Asia Studies, 68(9), pp. 1616–1617
Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885–1937. Life of an Old Bolshevik
An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
Bearslayers. The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists
Explaining the national communism crisis to Khrushchev in summer 1959, the novelist and prime minister of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Vilis Lacis said that it all began in 1956, when even
Workers and Unity: A Study of Social Democracy, St Petersburg Metalworkers, and the Labor Movement in Late Imperial Russia, 1906–14
With the exception of the work of Michael Melancon, the workers of late Imperial Russia have not merited much consideration since the 1980s. Alice Pate's new study, therefore, is particularly welco
Deniss Hanovs and Valdis Tēraudkalns, Ultimate Freedom – No Choice: The Culture of Authoritarianism in Latvia , 1934–1940
No abstract available
Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence
No abstract available
Before National Communism: Joining the Latvian Komsomol under Stalin
In 1959, Indriks Pinksis, Eduards Berklavs and Vilis Krūmiņš were among the prominent targets of Moscow's National Communist purge of supposed ‘bourgeois nationalists' operating within the leadership of the Latvian Communist Party. A decade earlier all three had been active leaders of the Latvian Komsomol. This article explores the Stalin years of the Latvian Komsomol, and argues that the Komsomol was only able to win an acceptable number of recr…
Captives of Revolution: The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, 1918–23
The highest flights of circumlocutory art’: Britain, Latvia and Recognizing the Soviet Annexation of 1940
The British Government never recognized the Soviet annexation of the Baltic States in June 1940, but almost did so early in 1942 and was ready to do so again in 1944, when it took at face value Stalin's revision of the Soviet constitution. The result was ‘trouble’ from the Baltic ambassadors in London, particularly the Latvian ambassador. The British Government changed its stance in autumn 1945 when the revisions to the Soviet constitution proved…
Tito: A Biography
Josip Broz Tito was a remarkable figure in the history of Communism, the Second World War, the Balkans and post-war Eastern Europe. He was the only European besides Lenin to lead a successful Communist revolution and became one of the most renowned Communist leaders of all time. For a certain generation, he was remembered as someone who stood up to both Hitler and Stalin - and won. Tito was above all else a communist, and was devoted to the commu…
Making Sense of Stalin's Russia
Igal Halfin, Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University. Pitt Series in Russian and European Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, x + 4
Istoriya Latvii ot Rossiiskoi imperii k SSSR
Istoriya Latvii ot Rossiiskoi imperii k SSSR LYUDMILA M. VOROB'EVA Moscow, Istoricheskaya pamiat' and Rossiiskii institut strategicheskikh issledovanii, 2009–10 ISBN: 978-5-9990-0007-1 (Vol. 1), 97
Eastern Europe since 1945
Substantially expanded and rewritten, this edition takes into account the momentous changes since the first edition was published in 1992. With several Central European states joining the European Uni
Before National Communism: Joining the Latvian Komsomol under Stalin
In 1959, Indriks Pinksis, Eduards Berklavs and Vilis Krūmiņš were among the prominent targets of Moscow's National Communist purge of supposed ‘bourgeois nationalists' operating within the leadership of the Latvian Communist Party. A decade earlier all three had been active leaders of the Latvian Komsomol. This article explores the Stalin years of the Latvian Komsomol, and argues that the Komsomol was only able to win an acceptable number of recr…
The Disillusioning of the Revolution's Praetorian Guard: The Latvian Riflemen, Summer-Autumn 1918
(1999). The Disillusioning of the Revolution's Praetorian Guard: The Latvian Riflemen, Summer-Autumn 1918. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 667-686
The Cominform: Tito's International
Although it is now recognized that the Stalin-Tito dispute was sparked off by Tito's desire to intervene decisively in the Greek civil war, the ideological context of that decision has never been fully explored. This article suggests that, since the early days of the Second World War, Tito had been committed to establishing a popular front ‘from below’, i.e. under clear communist control. He did this not only in Yugoslavia, but used his position …
Deciding to Collectivise Latvian Agriculture
No abstract available
Russia's garibaldi: The revolutionary life of Mikhail Artemevich Muraviev
Colonel Muraviev helped stage the October Revolution and commanded the forces which scattered Kerenskii's bid to oust Lenin; yet in July 1918 Muraviev came within an ace of deposing Lenin by staging a military insurrection in Garibaldi's name. To explain this apparent conundrum, an attempt is made to link together Muraviev's pre‐October career as a campaigner for the reform of the old army, and his experiences in February, March and April 1918 wh…
Bearslayers. The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists
Explaining the national communism crisis to Khrushchev in summer 1959, the novelist and prime minister of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Vilis Lacis said that it all began in 1956, when even
Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence
No abstract available
Vacietis: The enigma of the red army's first commander
In many ways, the Red Army was the creation of its first commander, Ioakim Vacietis of the Latvian Riflemen, yet remarkably little is known about either his career or his character. Dismissed from his post as Red Army Commander in the summer of 1919, and sidelined into the Frunze Military Academy, he eventually fell victim to Stalin's purges. This article assembles what little is known of his early life and influences and explores what motivated …
Before the fighting started: A discussion on the theme of ‘the third way’
Tito: The Formation of a Disloyal Bolshevik
Tito rose to lead the Yugoslav Communist Party by stressing his loyalty to Lenin. As a “Left” critic of “Right Liquidationism” his views coincided with the Left turn in the Comintern which climaxed with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. During the “imperialist” war, Tito, like Lenin, wrote only of the armed uprising and the proletarian revolution; for him this began with the German invasion of April 1941. However, Tito's experiences in Moscow during t…
Bolsheviks and Metal Workers on the Eve of the First World War
Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885–1937. Life of an Old Bolshevik
Latvia's Democratic Resistance: A Forgotten Episode from the Second World War
In summer 1943 politicians representing the four main political parties of Latvia's democratic years came together to establish a movement which would both resist the German occupation and prevent the return of the Red Army. They considered the key to re-establishing Latvia as an independent democratic state was to make contact with Britain, and they hoped to do this by a combination of military and diplomatic activity. Once contact with Sweden h…
Maugham, Masaryk and the ‘Mensheviks’
Bolsheviks and Metal Workers on the Eve of the First World War
Was the Profintern Really Necessary
The Bolsheviks’ Prague conference revisited
Tito: The Formation of a Disloyal Bolshevik
Tito rose to lead the Yugoslav Communist Party by stressing his loyalty to Lenin. As a “Left” critic of “Right Liquidationism” his views coincided with the Left turn in the Comintern which climaxed with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. During the “imperialist” war, Tito, like Lenin, wrote only of the armed uprising and the proletarian revolution; for him this began with the German invasion of April 1941. However, Tito's experiences in Moscow during t…
Before the fighting started: A discussion on the theme of ‘the third way’
The Cominform: Tito's International
Although it is now recognized that the Stalin-Tito dispute was sparked off by Tito's desire to intervene decisively in the Greek civil war, the ideological context of that decision has never been fully explored. This article suggests that, since the early days of the Second World War, Tito had been committed to establishing a popular front ‘from below’, i.e. under clear communist control. He did this not only in Yugoslavia, but used his position …
Inessa armand: Revolutionary and Feminist
Maugham, Masaryk and the ‘Mensheviks’
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES GEOFFREY SWAIN GEOFFREY SWAIN University of West of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 437, July 1995, Pages 798–799, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.437.798 Published: 01 July 1995
Stalin's wartime vision of the postwar world
(1996). Stalin's wartime vision of the postwar world. Diplomacy & Statecraft: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 73-96
Russia's garibaldi: The revolutionary life of Mikhail Artemevich Muraviev
Colonel Muraviev helped stage the October Revolution and commanded the forces which scattered Kerenskii's bid to oust Lenin; yet in July 1918 Muraviev came within an ace of deposing Lenin by staging a military insurrection in Garibaldi's name. To explain this apparent conundrum, an attempt is made to link together Muraviev's pre‐October career as a campaigner for the reform of the old army, and his experiences in February, March and April 1918 wh…
Stalin and Spain, 1944-1948
The Disillusioning of the Revolution's Praetorian Guard: The Latvian Riflemen, Summer-Autumn 1918
(1999). The Disillusioning of the Revolution's Praetorian Guard: The Latvian Riflemen, Summer-Autumn 1918. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 667-686
Midwives of the revolution: Female Bolsheviks and Women Workers in 1917
Deciding to Collectivise Latvian Agriculture
No abstract available
Vacietis: The enigma of the red army's first commander
In many ways, the Red Army was the creation of its first commander, Ioakim Vacietis of the Latvian Riflemen, yet remarkably little is known about either his career or his character. Dismissed from his post as Red Army Commander in the summer of 1919, and sidelined into the Frunze Military Academy, he eventually fell victim to Stalin's purges. This article assembles what little is known of his early life and influences and explores what motivated …
The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia
1University of the West of England The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia MaureenPerrie BasingstokePalgrave 2001255£45
Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46
Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of the 20th century: Stalinist industrialization, collectivization and political annihilation; Nazi expansionism and genocide; with local nationalism, local nationalist rivalries, and local anti-Semitism. The author traces the developments in one particular region of Latvia, Daugavpils. There, the dilemma of Hitler …
Development of a Computer-based Risk-reduction Counseling Intervention: Acceptability and Preferences Among Low-income Patients at an Urban Sexually Transmitted Infection Clinic
Divided we Fall: Division Within the National Partisans of Vidzeme and Latgale, Fall 1945
Heinrihs Strods has shown that Latvia's national partisans were defeated primarily because of the overwhelming military odds they faced, but he added a secondary cause–the lack of unity in their ranks. This article explores the causes of such disunity and suggests that Björn Felder is right to see a blurring of ideological divisions as the Second World War came to an end; however, even at the height of summer 1945 there were some signs of tension…
Eastern Europe since 1945
Substantially expanded and rewritten, this edition takes into account the momentous changes since the first edition was published in 1992. With several Central European states joining the European Uni
Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia by Pavlowitch, S.K
Latvia's Democratic Resistance: A Forgotten Episode from the Second World War
In summer 1943 politicians representing the four main political parties of Latvia's democratic years came together to establish a movement which would both resist the German occupation and prevent the return of the Red Army. They considered the key to re-establishing Latvia as an independent democratic state was to make contact with Britain, and they hoped to do this by a combination of military and diplomatic activity. Once contact with Sweden h…
Istoriya Latvii ot Rossiiskoi imperii k SSSR
Istoriya Latvii ot Rossiiskoi imperii k SSSR LYUDMILA M. VOROB'EVA Moscow, Istoricheskaya pamiat' and Rossiiskii institut strategicheskikh issledovanii, 2009–10 ISBN: 978-5-9990-0007-1 (Vol. 1), 97
Tito: A Biography
Josip Broz Tito was a remarkable figure in the history of Communism, the Second World War, the Balkans and post-war Eastern Europe. He was the only European besides Lenin to lead a successful Communist revolution and became one of the most renowned Communist leaders of all time. For a certain generation, he was remembered as someone who stood up to both Hitler and Stalin - and won. Tito was above all else a communist, and was devoted to the commu…
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