Table Of ContentRussia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914–22.
Book 2: The Experience of War and Revolution
Russia’s Great War and Revolution
Vol. 1, bk. 1
Murray Frame, Boris Kolonitskii, Steven G. Marks, and Melissa K.
Stockdale, eds., Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914–22:
Popular Culture, the Arts, and Institutions (2014)
Vol. 1, bk. 2
Murray Frame, Boris Kolonitskii, Steven G. Marks, and Melissa K.
Stockdale, eds., Russian Culture in War and Revolution, 1914–22:
Political Culture, Identities, Mentalities, and Memory (2014)
Vol. 2
Eric Lohr, Vera Tolz, Alexander Semyonov, and Mark von Hagen,
eds., The Empire and Nationalism at War (2014)
Vol. 3, bk. 1
Sarah Badcock, Liudmila G. Novikova, and Aaron B. Retish, eds., Russia’s
Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914–22: Russia’s Revolution in Regional
Perspective (2015)
Vol. 3, bk. 2
Adele Lindenmeyr, Christopher Read, and Peter Waldron, eds., Russia’s
Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914–22: The Experience of War and
Revolution (2015)
Series General Editors: Anthony Heywood, David MacLaren McDonald, and
John W. Steinberg
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Cover design by Tracey Theriault.
Cover: Emilii Ernestovich Sporius, poster urging citizens to donate to
homes for wounded soldiers (1914).
ISBN: 978-089357-426-0
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Russia’s home front in war and revolution, 1914-22 / edited by Sarah
Badcock, Liudmila G. Novikova, Aaron B. Retish.
pages cm. -- (Russia’s great war and revolution, 1914-1922 ; vol. 3)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-89357-429-1
1. World War, 1914-1918--Soviet Union. 2. World War, 1914-1918--Russia.
3. Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921. 4. Russia--Social
conditions--1801-1917. 5. Soviet Union--Social conditions--1917-1945. I.
Badcock, Sarah, 1974- editor. II. Novikova, Liudmila G., 1973- editor. III.
Retish, Aaron B.
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Contents
From the Series Editors ......................................................................................... ix
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................. xvii
Adele Lindenmeyr
Introduction ...................................................................................................... 1
Map of the Russian Empire in 1914 ...................................................................... 8
The Mobilization of Russian Society
Jude C. Richter
Philanthropy and Welfare in Russia, 1914–18 ............................................. 11
Lynn M. Sargeant
The People’s House in War and Revolution ................................................ 31
Norihiro Naganawa
A Civil Society in a Confessional State?
Muslim Philanthropy in the Volga-Urals Region ..................................... 59
Polly Zavadivker
Fighting “On Our Own Territory”: The Relief, Rescue, and
Representation of Jews in Russia during World War I ............................. 79
vi Contents
Anastasiya S. Tumanova
Learned Societies in Russia during World War I:
Creating a “Home Front” ............................................................................ 107
Joseph Bradley
Associations in Times of Political Turmoil:
Science Societies and the Bolshevik Regime, 1917–22 ............................. 137
Eduard I. Kolchinsky
World War I and the Transformation of
the Imperial Academy of Sciences ............................................................. 173
Yoshiro Ikeda
The Homeland’s Bountiful Nature Heals Wounded Soldiers:
Nation Building and Russian Health Resorts
during the First World War ......................................................................... 201
Scott M. Kenworthy
Monasticism in War and Revolution ........................................................ 221
Susan Grant
From War to Peace: Russian Nurses, 1917–22 .......................................... 251
Communities, Family, and Survival in a Continuum of Crisis
Matthias Neumann
Mobilizing Children: Youth and the Patriotic
War Culture in Kiev during World War I ................................................ 273
Liudmila Bulgakova
The Phenomenon of the Liberated Soldier’s Wife ................................... 301
Reinhard Nachtigal
Germans in Russia during World War I ................................................... 327
Contents vii
Sharon A. Kowalsky
Transforming Society: Criminologists, Violence, and
Family in War and Revolution ................................................................... 343
Christine Ruane
The Kitchen Gardening Campaign in World War I Russia ................... 365
Igor V. Narsky and Yulia Y. Khmelevskaya
Alcohol in Russia as a Means of Social Integration,
Cultural Communication, and Survival during World
War I and the Revolution ............................................................................ 387
Pavel Vasilyev
War, Revolution and Drugs: The “Democratization” of Drug
Abuse and the Evolution of Drug Policy in Russia, 1914–24 .................. 411
Andy Willimott
Everyday Revolution:
The Making of the Soviet Urban Communes .......................................... 431
Mark Conliffe
Poltava in Revolution and Civil War: From the Diaries of
Vladimir Korolenko and Aleksandr Nesvitskii ...................................... 455
Lynne Hartnett
Catastrophe Befell Our House: A Famous Family’s
Struggle for Survival in the Russian Civil War ....................................... 475
Joshua A. Sanborn
The Zenith of Russian Progressivism:
The Home Front during World War I and the Revolution ..................... 497
Notes on Contributors ........................................................................................ 509
From the Series Editors
Origins of the Project
Since its inception in 2006 Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–22 has taken
shape through the collaboration of an international community of historians
interested in the history of World War I’s understudied eastern theater. Timed
to coincide with the centenary of the Great War—and, by extension, the revolu-
tions it helped unleash—this series responds to several developments in the
historiography of the Russian Empire, its Soviet successor, and the Great War
as a whole.
During a century of scholarly and popular discussion about the First World
War, the ”Russian” part of the conflict received little sustained attention until
after 1991. In the former USSR, the war stood in the shadow of the revolutions
of 1917 and the subsequent Civil War that resulted in the formation of the So-
viet Union; most of all, it was eclipsed by the apotheosization after 1945 of the
Great War of the Fatherland, the victory over Nazi Germany, as the defining
moment in Soviet history. As a result, the First World War appeared as the
final folly of an outmoded bourgeois-noble autocracy, doomed to collapse by
the laws of history. Non-Soviet scholars, often hampered by restricted access
to archival collections, downplayed the Russian war experience for other rea-
sons. Specialists in the history of the late empire or early Soviet order tended
to see the war as either the epilogue to the former or the prologue to the latter.
Western historians often focused on the war experience of their own states—
most often Britain and its imperial possessions, France, or Germany—or on
a welter of issues bequeathed by the outbreak of the war in 1914 and the
peacemaking in the years following 1918. These issues included most notably
the vexed question of Germany’s “war guilt,” encoded in Article 231 of the
Versailles Treaty, which has continued to provoke a lively and contentious
discussion in the intervening 100 years.
The disintegration of the Soviet Union by the end of 1991 cast the history of
the Soviet state and the late empire in a different light. Long-closed archives—
particularly for military and international history—became relatively accessi-
ble to post-Soviet and Western scholars. As important, opportunities opened
quickly for collaboration and dialogue between historians in Russia and their
colleagues abroad, fostering new research and interpretations that would
have been impossible or inconceivable before the late 1980s. Likewise, the
Russia’s Home Front in War and Revolution, 1914–22, Book 2: The Experience of War and
Revolution. Adele Lindenmeyr, Christopher Read, and Peter Waldron, eds. Bloomington, IN:
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