The Russian Revolution as Utopian Leap in the Open Air of History

Guest: Mark Steinberg is a professor of Russian History at the University of Illinois. He’s the author of many wonderful books including, Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910-1925; Voices of Revolution, 1917; Petersburg Fin de Siecle; and with Nicholas Riasanovsky, A History of Russia, now in its 8th edition. His most recent book is The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 published by Oxford University Press. You can view the presentation slides here. My previous interview with Mark Steinberg, Experiencing the Russian Revolution. Music: Tom Waits, “Jesus Gonna Be Here,” Bone Machine, 1992