Colleen M. Moore
Historian and author specializing in late Imperial Russia and the First World War; wrote The Peasants' War: Russia's Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025), which examines peasant experiences and their role in 1917.
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Feb 14, 2026 • 56min
Colleen M. Moore, "The Peasants' War: Russia's Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Colleen M. Moore, historian of Russian peasant life, explores how World War I transformed peasant-state relations. She recounts mass mobilization, resistance to vodka bans, conscription crises, land seizures, and wartime provisioning struggles. Short, vivid stories show how wartime service became leverage that reshaped political authority.
Feb 14, 2026 • 56min
Colleen M. Moore, "The Peasants' War: Russia's Home Front in the First World War and the End of the Autocracy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Colleen M. Moore, historian of late Imperial Russia and WWI, explores how peasant wartime service transformed their relationship with the state. She traces mobilization, propaganda, prohibition, conscription, transport failures, and land redistribution. Short, vivid stories show how peasants gained bargaining power and reshaped political legitimacy.
