Rethinking the russian revolution of 1905: crisis, context, comparisons
Rethinking the 1905 Revolution means to look afresh at the various dimensions of the crisis: what do we have to say about rural and urban revolutions and different forms of social unrest? What is there to be learned from the role of the nationalities, the pogroms, and the revolution at the periphery of the empire? What kind of cultural patterns are employed to communicate political aims? What does the crisis tell us about different strategies of modernisation employed in Tsarist Russia? What is it that we still don’t know: where are the blanks which need to be filled in?
Rethinking the 1905 Revolution means to place it firmly into an international and transcultural context: what did events in Russia mean in other countries in Europe or Asia? What do we know about coverage in the media, not least the relatively young cinema? Did this Revolution inspire writers and artists elsewhere? What did it do to the Western or Eastern image of Russia abroad? How did the Balkan states, the Ottoman Empire or Asian societies like China and Japan react? Was it, in terms of media coverage, a ‘world revolution’, a global event? What does the revolution tell us about the dynamics of civil society (from the left and from the right), about public spaces and innovations in Russian monarchy?
Rethinking the 1905 Revolution means to compare the shifting grounds of political legitimacy in a revolutionary situation, the patterns of social mobilisation and social control, constitutional experiences, new interpretations of traditional national and social images. Are there parallels, differences, contradictions or confirmations in other revolutionary experiences in Europe?
The presentations of this international and interdisciplinary conference which is dedicated to Prof. Dr. Heinz-Dietrich Löwe (University of Heidelberg) focus on the following research fields:
- the situation of the Jews in the Revolution of 1905 and their role in the revolutionary movement
- the Revolution of 1905 and its impact on civil society
- the Russian Empire and its peripheries during the Revolution of 1905
- the 1905 Revolution and the economy
- the 1905 Revolution in media and culture
- the inter- and transnational dimension & transcultural aspects of the 1905 Revolution
Kontakt:
Dr. Frank Grüner
Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies
Voßstr. 2
D-69115 Heidelberg
Telefon: 06221-544302
E-mail: frank.gruener
@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
