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HEIKO HAUMANN (Hrsg.) Die Russische Revolution 1917. Bohlau Verlag Koln, Weimar, Wien2007. 182 S., 13 Abb., 1 Kte. = UTB fur Wis-senschaft, 2950.
This is a somewhat unusual volume in that it is a thematic and systematic history of the Russian Revolution but written as a collaboration between a team of authors. Five of the main chapters were written by the editor, HEIKO HAUMANN, while the other seven were shared between five others. The common factor is that all the authors, in one way or another, are or were attached to the University of Basel, an institution able to pride itself on the breadth of expertise which, on this evidence, it enjoys. The twelve main chapters have been carefully chosen to cover a wide area of the revolution in the rather slim 150 pages of text and the contributions have been carefully edited to minimise overlap. The result is a more or less introductory account largely focused on the revolutionary year 1917 with some excursions into the earlier background and the later period of civil war and war communism....