John Biggart

Biographic Data

ID976582
NAMEJohn Biggart
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEBiggart
SIGNATUREBIGGART J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of East Anglia
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • The Case of the Debt to Anna Ivanovna Umnova. An Episode in the Financial History of Bolshevism (1907–1910)

    Open AccessJohn BiggartARTICLEEconomic Policy2023

  • Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletkult

    Open AccessJohn Biggart, Oksana BulgakowaARTICLECultural Science Journal2021

    This article examines some of the theoretical issues that exercised Sergei Eisenstein during the years 1920–1924 when he worked in the Russian Proletarian Cultural-Educational Organization (Proletkult), of which Aleksandr Bogdanov was one of the founders. We ask how far Eisenstein was influenced by Marxism in general and by the ideas of Bogdanov in particular, and explain his exit from the Proletkult in terms of the unacceptability of his theory …

  • Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Sociology of the Arts

    Open AccessJohn BiggartARTICLECultural Science Journal2021

    Aleksandr Bogdanov’s theory of culture has been outlined in a number of key works on his life and work. See Sochor (1998); Mally (1990); White (2019b). The purpose of the present article is to situate his ideas on the social function of the arts within the framework of his theory of culture. I point out that, whereas in his general theory of social consciousness Bogdanov acknowledged his indebtedness to Marx, he considered that in respect of the …

  • Eisenstein’s ‘Cinema of the Masses’

    Open AccessJohn Biggart, Oksana BulgakowaARTICLECultural Science Journal2021

    Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications

  • The Russian Naval General Staff and the Evolution of Naval Policy, 1905-1914

    Evgenii F Podsoblyaev, Francis King et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2002

    Evgenii F. Podsoblyaev, Francis King, John Biggart, The Russian Naval General Staff and the Evolution of Naval Policy, 1905-1914, The Journal of Military History, Vol. 66, No. 1 (Jan., 2002), pp. 37-69

  • John Reed and the Russian Revolution. Uncollected Articles, Letters and Speeches on Russia, 1917-1920

    Rex A Wade, Eric Homberger et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1993

    Part 1 1917: The fall of the Russian Bastille the Russian peace a visit to the Russian army John Reed cables the call news of the Bolshevik revolt. Part 2 1918: the origin of workers control in Russia Bolshevik foes of all imperialism address to the Jacob Schwartz memorial meeting the constituent assembly in Russia. Part 3 1919-20: how Soviet Russia conquered Imperial Germany Doctor Rakovsky the Bolshevik in 1919 - notebook entries Soviet Russia …

  • John Reed and the Russian Revolution: Uncollected Articles Letters and Speeches on Russia 1917-1920

    Open AccessPlaton Monokroussos, Eric Homberger et al.BOOKJohn Reed and the Russian…1992

    The article “John Reed and the Russian Revolution” is a pre-print of the introduction from the forthcoming republication of John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World. It is part of a republication series, Americans in Revolutionary Russia, from Slavica Publishers (Indiana University). This series is republishing about twenty books by adding introductions and footnoting in the texts to help modern readers understand these works from a century ago.

  • "Alexander Bogdanov and the Theory of a "New Class

    John BiggartARTICLEThe Russian Review1990Cited by: 1

    The theory that in certain circumstances state socialism could degenerate into a system in which power was exercised by a bureaucratic elite or by a has its origins in Mikhail Bakunin's famous critique of Marx written during the years 1870-1873. In 1905 the theory acquired a lease of life in the writings of Jan Waclaw Makhaisky. In Western historiography the application of such theories to the development of socialism in the Soviet Union has usua…

  • Bukharin and the origins of the ‘proletarian culture’ debate

    John BiggartARTICLESoviet Studies1987Cited by: 5References: 8

    (1987). Bukharin and the origins of the ‘proletarian culture’ debate. Soviet Studies: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 229-246

  • Anti-Leninist Bolshevism”: The Forward Group of the RSDRP

    John BiggartARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers1981Cited by: 2

    AbstractDans l’historiographie occidentale et soviétique l’histoire du bolchévismc est assimilée à l’histoire de Lénine et du Léninisme. Cet article veut démontrer que pendant la période 1904-1909 le groupe d’Alexandre Bogdanov a joué un rôle aussi important dans le développement du bolchévisme que le groupe de Lénine.A partir de 1907 les “Léninistes” et les “Bogdanovistes” étaient en désaccord sur la stratégie politique à suivre envers le régime…

  • A Study Group on the Russian Revolution

    Open AccessJohn Biggart, David N Collins et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Social…1974

    Recent years have seen the development in Russian studies of a number of study groups in which specialists meet for the discussion of papers and the exchange of information and ideas. One thinks of the successful launching of the Eighteenth Century, Dostoevsky, and Neo-Formalist study groups

  • Professional News-Nouvelles De La Profession

    John Biggart, John Biggart John Biggart et al.ARTICLECanadian-American Slavic Studies1973

  • Kirov before the revolution

    John BiggartARTICLESoviet Studies1972References: 4