1917: Historical Divide? <i>Review of: </i>Matthias Neumann, Andy Willimott (eds.) <i>Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide</i>. London, New York: Routledge, 2018
The collective monograph makes a new attempt to rethink the Russian revolution as a ‘historical divide’ between eras in Russian and world history. The authors come to the conclusion that the revolutionary transformation of Russia went far beyond the borders of 1917, capturing not only the Russian Civil War, but also the first decade of Soviet power. The most important and valuable observations relate to the hidden and still underestimated socio-cultural influence of pre-revolutionary Russia on the seemingly completely special ‘Soviet world’.