Professional Affiliation

Professor of History, European University, St. Petersburg

Wilson Center Project

Political Culture of the 1917 Russian Revolution

Project Summary

the way in which elite conceptions made their way into the cultural marketplace and helped shape popular attitudes how the public helped poroduce a symbolic language of revolution by investing images and ideas with new meaning values in the language of public life mechanisms peculiar to the crisis of 1917, explaining the presence of widespread images and assumptions among the masses--public and common folk alike