Military Affairs in Russia's Great War and Revolution 1914-22 : Book 1: Military Experiences
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 174754191
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Slavica Publishers
- ISBN
- 9780893574314
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- In 2006 Heywood began a long-term collaboration with two US-based colleagues to produce an international edited-book series for the centenary of Russia’s involvement in WW1 and the 1917 revolutions. Their first books appeared on schedule in 2014 under the banner Russia’s Great War and Revolution 1914-1922, and the last one is expected in 2022 (total: 21 books). This book was Heywood’s initiative. The subject of frontline soldiers’ experiences in WW1 became popular in the West in the late twentieth century, but almost nothing existed in English about soldiers’ experiences on the Russian side of the Eastern Front. Because the project’s military team wanted to concentrate on operational history, Heywood pressed for a separate book about this topic. Once the editorial board agreed, he acted as the lead editor and did much of the author recruitment. After about a year pressures on his time led to Laurie Stoff taking over. The composition of the book’s editorial team followed the project policy to have at least one editor from each of North America, Europe and Russia. The aim was not want simply to mimic the existing Western Front literature, and after much discussion, as the Introduction explains, the team chose to interpret “front” very broadly, including POW and civilian experiences. That explains why the book is called “military experiences”, not “frontline experiences” or “soldiers’ experiences”. John Steinberg produced the first draft of the Introduction, then Stoff and Heywood were heavily involved in revising it. To reinforce the point about the relevance and importance of civilians’ experiences and connect with the Western Front literature, Heywood drew on his current monograph research to contribute a single-authored chapter about the militarisation of civilians in the Russian army’s front zones. The first printing of this book sold out within 18 months.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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