Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial

Contributions by Wiktor Marzec Contributions by Ralf Georg Czapla Contributions by Konstantin Morozov Contributions by Lutz Klinkhammer Contributions by Jens Späth Contributions by Sarah Panter Contributions by Zaur Gasimov Contributions by Raoul Motika Contributions by Sebastian Pampuch Contributions by Vojin Saša Vukadinović Contributions by Stephen Milder Contributions by Alexander V. Reznik Contributions by Enrico Zanette Contributions by Julia Safronova Contributions by Ana-Teodora Kurkina Edited by Sandra Dahlke Edited by Nikolaus Katzer Edited by Denis Sdvizhkov

Book cover: Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Extent: 315 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Nineteenth-Century Studies, Social Sciences , Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Schriften aus der Max Weber Stiftung

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2023)

ISBN: 9783847112488

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $69.00

In stock

Abstract determinations and conclusions regarding “epochal ruptures” or “continuities” are questioned in longitudinal historical sections as well as in individual-local micro studies of revolutionary biographies.


The volume contains selected contributions to the conference “Revolutionary Biographies in the 19th and 20th Century. Imperial – Inter/national – Decolonial”, organised by the GHI Moscow in 2017. The contributors look at the crisis-ridden processes of modernity through the prism of individual biographies, which manifest themselves in national and social, anti-imperial and de-colonial, global and regional movements. The contributions cover the Russian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, Germany, the USA, France, the Soviet Union, Iran, Poland, Turkey and Africa. They focus on transnational and trans-imperial life paths, networks and the imprints of the actors as well as forms of (auto)biographical self-constitution and the political use of biographical narratives. Editing: Maria Tschassowskaja

  • Contributions by Wiktor Marzec
  • Contributions by Ralf Georg Czapla
  • Contributions by Konstantin Morozov
  • Contributions by Lutz Klinkhammer
  • Contributions by Jens Späth
  • Contributions by Sarah Panter
  • Contributions by Zaur Gasimov
  • Contributions by Raoul Motika
  • Contributions by Sebastian Pampuch
  • Contributions by Vojin Saša Vukadinović
  • Contributions by Stephen Milder
  • Contributions by Alexander V. Reznik
  • Contributions by Enrico Zanette
  • Contributions by Julia Safronova
  • Contributions by Ana-Teodora Kurkina
  • Edited by Sandra Dahlke
  • Edited by Nikolaus Katzer
  • Edited by Denis Sdvizhkov