Table of Contents

The 100th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution: Introduction
Mary Neuburger

Celebrating (or Not) The Russian Revolution
Sheila Fitzpatrick

Blackness the Color of Red: Negotiating Race at the US Legation in Riga, Latvia, 1922–33
Maxim Matusevich

Sino-Soviet Romance: An Emotional History of Revolutionary Geopolitics
Elizabeth McGuire

The Bulgarian Factor in Russia’s Revolutionary Era, 1917–23
Mary Neuburger

The Russian Revolution and Spanish Communists, 1931–5
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

Imperial Subjects in the Soviet Union: M.N. Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, and Re-Thinking Freedom and Authoritarianism
Choi Chatterjee

‘We, the South African Bolsheviks’: The Russian Revolution and South Africa
Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson

The Russian Revolution in New York, 1917–19
Tony Michels

‘A Plague of Salaried Marxists’: Sexuality and Subsistence in the Revolutionary Imaginary of Concha
Michel Jocelyn Olcott

Articles

De-Stalinization and the Failure of Soviet Identity Building in Kazakhstan
Zbigniew Wojnowski

VOKS, Cultural Diplomacy and the Shadow of the Lubianka: Olavi Paavolainen’s 1939 Visit to the Soviet Union
Ville Laamanen

Dutch Communism in Transition: The Unfolding of a National Cold War during Political Reconstruction, 1944–8
Tijn Sinke