Russia in World History

Choi Chatterjee is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939 (2002) and the co-author of Russia in the Long Twentieth Century (2016) and The Twentieth Century: A Retrospective (2002). She is also the co-editor of Everyday Life in Russia Past and Present (2015), The Russian Experience: Americans Encountering the Enigma, 1890 to the Present (2012), and The Wider Arc of Revolution (2019). Chatterjee, a passionate advocate of everyday environmentalism, is the co-creator of the project, https://www.livingbackyardtotable.com/.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Tolstoy and Tagore: Principles of Global Thinking2. Imperial Incarcerations: Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar3. The Empire Vanishes as the Nation Remains: Vasily Klyuchevsky and the G. M. Trevelyan4. Alone and Against Systems Thinking: Emma Goldman and M. N. Roy 5. Capitalism and socialism on the farm: Mukhamet Shayakhmetov and Wangari Maathai6. The Cold War Retold: Zainab Al-Ghazali and Urszula Dudziak7. Whom Does a Woman Speak For in a Post-World? Anna Politkovskaya and Arundhati Roy. Interview with Lisa Kirschenbaum.ConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex

This book is hugely ambitious. Chatterjee manages to pull off this remarkable intellectual experiment (and the book is novel enough to be called so) with remarkable lucidity. The book is a masterclass in identifying the base elements of thinking about the big questions - nationalism, ethnicity, race relations, class – as they relate to different countries – continents, even – and distilling these intellectual concerns and concepts down to their shared essence.