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Vol 9 No 1 (Editorial: Pete Glatter; Introduction; The Road to Bloody Sunday (Introduced by Pete Glatter); A Revolution Takes Shape (Introduced by Pete Glatter); The Decisive Days (Introduced by Pete Glatter and Philip Ruff); Rosa Luxemburg and the 1905 Revolution (Introduced by Mark Thomas); Mike
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led to his conceiving a major project to make available a mass of new material in English. Glatter became aware that there was a rich collection of primary sources including autobiographical accounts, some of them collected for the twentieth anniversary in 1925 that could illuminate the events and
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to work with Professor Neil Malcolm on the relationship between the Russian regions and the world economy in the wake of the collapse of the USSR. But Glatter’s research took a different direction and the focus became the way in which ‘elites’ in key regions (or as he saw it remnants of the old
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His argument, more controversial then, perhaps than now, was that in the 1990s in Russia the links connecting the different elements that had ruled the old USSR collapsed but much of the personnel of the old order or those close to them remained in power. To consolidate their position they had
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where worked to help catalogue many of the independent newspapers that had been published in Russia and copies of which had been secured by the library. This gave him an unrivalled source base and the final thesis was characterized by impressive detail in terms of its empirical base as well as
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that seemed to begin to restore more stability after 2000. While many were tempted to see this as a restoration of the old chain of command Glatter’s analysis led him to argue that this was much more a negotiated process and the centre was less strong then some imagined.
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therefore to merge their political and economic interests. He likened this to an officer corps where the officers remain in power but the chain of command collapses. This argument was important not only with respect to the 1990s but also the
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analysis of 1905. Making these sources available in English and a good translation was a major achievement and this will stand as a monument to his work and the potential that was soon to be lost. He then began work with the archaeologist
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that would be finished in 2008 following the ending of the Putin presidency. But in 2007 he was affected by a series of what appeared to be physical problems but which soon turned out to have their origin in a
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in the 1970s as a bus driver while playing an active role in the socialist and radical movements of the day. He joined the International Socialists as a teenager and always remained a committed member of the
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ruling class) were maintaining themselves in power. This was the background to articles on the effect of the transition in Russia’s
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Pete Glatter, ‘Review article: On Elites after State Socialism: Theories and Analysis, edited by John Higley and György Lengyel’,
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in Russia, he published a small pamphlet which remains one of the best short introductions to that tumultuous year,
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But his more immediate aim was to return to the modern Russian state and to write an account of Russia under
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Peter Glatter, ‘Federalization, Fragmentation, and the West Siberian Oil and Gas Province’, in D.Lane ed.,
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their dynamics. He therefore gained agreement to translate and publish these in a book length issue of
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He remained fascinated, though, by Russia’s history, and especially 1905. The 2005 anniversary of
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In the late 1980s Glatter decided to go to university to study Russian. After 3 years at
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Peter Glatter, ‘Continuity and Change in the Tyumen' Regional Elite 1991-2001’,
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Pete, Glatter, ‘London Busmen: Rise and Fall of a Rank and File Movement’,
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https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/birchall/2009/xx/glatter.html
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Royal Institute of International Affairs Russia and Eurasia Programme
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Pete Glatter, ‘Tyumen: the West Siberian Oil and Gas province’,
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London Busmen: Rise and Fall of a Rank & File Movement
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International Socialism (2nd series), No.81, Winter 1998
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Mike Haynes and Pete Glatter, ‘The Russia Catastrophe’,
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The Russian Revolution of 1905: Change Through Struggle
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Pete Glatter, ‘Victor Serge: Writing for the Future’,
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Haynes, Patterns of Conflict in the 1905 Revolution)
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Pete Glatter, ‘Regional and Local Power in Russia’,
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