ssian Revolution similar to that of other major revolutions
~pre-1960s historiography on 1917 in the provinces was almost exclusively "top down" and political in its approach
~Cold War inflected debates dominated study of 1917 generally in the 1960s-1980s, but only one side in those debates (the leftist social historians) showed any real interest in the revolution in the provinces
~The first generation of serious historians of the revolution in the provinces all worked out of the social historical paradigm
~After the end of the Cold War, a second generation of scholars (and some of their older brethren) moved into the archives and beyond the foci of the social historians without rejecting the social historians basic arguments. New works in particular have tried to fit the story of 1917 in the provinces into the larger framework of the wartime crisis of 1914-1922; trans-national routines of the modern state; cultural historical studies of discourse; and post-colonial peasant studies.