Sorry that this is a little late, as the conference was at the end of last month. However, some truly interesting news from this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
As some of you may know the 'Russia's Great War in a Global Perspective' Project based out of the University of Aberdeen , is now offically underway. This five volume collection [military, diplomatic, home-front, empire, & culture] has been in the works for about a year now and is asking for submissions from interested/qualified academics and specialists. If anyone is interested, the link to our website is below or feel free to contact me at matthew.kowalski@temple.edu.and I will forward your info to the apro. individuals.
In addition, the conference ended with a session dedicated to the recent release of Alexander Rabinowitch's 'The Bolsheviks in Power: Petrograd Under Bolshevik Rule in 1918.' For those of us who are fimilar with Alex's classic case study of the events between Feb-Nov 1917,' The Bolsheviks Come to Power, there is really nothing new here. Thru careful attention to detail and saccess to source material from local Party archieves, Rabinowitch's new work further adds to the field of 'revisionist' history of 1917 that his first work urshed in. Just as that book challenged the then dominant meta-narrative of Oct 1917 as simply a coup, this new volume forces us to re-think our standard ideas about Lenin's decesion to accept the Brest-Litovsk conditions and the direction of the Bolshevik Revolution and state.[ application of terror, relations with the Allied powers, and war communism] A must read for anyone interested in the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Copies are available thru Haymarket Books.

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