Critical review essay on Slezkine’s “House of Government,” its millenarian thesis, and the emergent genre of academic blockbuster to which it belongs.

This article argues that the framework of the revolutionary life cycle can become a richly interpretive lens for Russian/Soviet historians of the entire late imperial and Soviet periods. The first section critically reviews the history of the approach and its recent revival in the field of comparative revolutions, focusing on the frequently flawed…[Read more]

Russian translation of “Russian-Soviet Modernity: None, Shared, Alternative, or Entangled?” published in NLO