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Die Erfindung der Eisenbahn weckte in Russland große Erwartungen in den technischen Fortschritt. Die Zarenregierung träumte von der Vereinigung des Imperiums durch ein stählernes Schienennetz. Ingenieure und Planer beschworen die zivilisierende Kraft moderner Infrastruktur. Tatsächlich brachte das neue Verkehrsmittel das Vielvölkerreich im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes in Bewegung. Die Eisenbahn erschloss vormals schwer erreichbare Regionen und ermöglichte einen sprunghaften Anstieg geografischer Mobilität. Ein Bombenanschlag auf den Zug des Zaren im Jahr 1879 verdeutlichte gleichzeitig die Ver

Die Transsibirische Eisenbahn sollte die Distanz zwischen Europa und Asien verkürzen und war ein Grund für einen verheerenden Krieg zwischen Russland und Japan. Heute träumen russische Planer erneut von einer Umlenkung der Warenströme aus China auf die längste Bahnlinie der Welt. (APuZ)

With his new Geschichte Russlands [History of Russia], Manfred Hildermeier has submitted another magnum opus. In this work, which is rich in detail, Hildermeier compares developments in Russia with those in Western Europe and follows the reception, appropriation, and transformation of West European historical achievements in Russia. However, herein lies the problem with this book: the thesis of Russia's backwardness leads inevitably to the country's history being told as a deviation from a European norm. Adapted from the source document.

"Common sense vanishes in revolutionary times": Sofia Panina and Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams reflect on 1917 / Adele Lindenmeyr -- Too busy for nostalgia? Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii's professional life and autobiographical publications after the Revolution (1917-44) / Henning Lautenschläger -- "Dragged headlong into the whirlwind": the Shul'gin family, Kievlianin, and Kiev's Russian nationalist movement in 1917 / Fabian Baumann -- "I am too bewildered to understand anything these days": members of the old elite try to make sense of the Russian revolutions / F. Benjamin Schenk -- The Kurbatikha estate: revolution in one manor: mature reflections on childhood experience / Christopher Read -- Two women gaining power through the October Revolution: Aleksandra Kollontai and Suzanne Girault / Sophie Cœuré -- Experiences of war and revolution: Vladimir Socoline's long road to Damascus / Korine Amacher -- Facing the Rubicon: analyzing the impact of the Russian Revolution on an individual life / Anthony Heywood -- Roman Jakobson and the Russian Revolution / Marina Yu. Sorokina -- "We're growing accustomed to Heaven on Earth": diaries as a means of self-preservation, and a testimony to means of survival, in Revolutionary Russia / Igor Narsky and Aleksandr Fokin -- An event without importance? Peasant autobiographical writing as media of the October Revolution 1917 / Julia Herzberg -- Kamenev in conflict with Lenin and Trotskii: the perils of revolutionary biography / Alexis Pogorelskin -- Polish Leftists in the Russian Revolution in Ukraine: the difficult construction of a Soviet memory / Eric Aunoble -- Lev Trotskii's experiences of autobiography: My life and its antecedents / Alexander Reznik -- Volin, a revolutionary in exile: the function of his personal testimony / Pierre Boutonnet.