About the lecture

In this module, we consider who or what is was that provided the driving force for the February Revolution, thinking in particular about the role of the various political parties (e.g. the Bolsheviks, the Cadets, the Octobrists, the Socialist Revolutionaries, etc.) and key individuals (e.g. Vladimir Lenin, Alexander Karensky, etc.), as well as the impact of events in Petrograd in July 1917, known as the July Days.

About the lecturer

Dr Mark Levene is Reader in Comparative History at the University of Southampton, and in the Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish relations. His writing ranges across genocide, Jewish history and environmental and peace issues especially focusing on anthropogenic climate change. His most recent work includes the two volume The Crisis of Genocide : The European Rimlands, 1912 -1953 (Oxford, 2013) which won the Institute of Genocide Studies Lemkin award in 2015, and, with Rob Johnson and Penny Roberts (eds.), History at the end of the world? History, climate change and the possibility of closure (Penrith, 2010). He is co-founder of Crisis Forum (http://www.crisis-forum.org.uk) and founder of the Rescue!History (http://www.rescue-history.org.uk/), independent academic networks.