Professor Geoffrey Swain
- Emeritus Professor (School of Social & Political Sciences)
email:
Geoffrey.Swain@glasgow.ac.uk
R407 Level 4, Cees, 8 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Publications
2021
Swain, G. (2021) British adventurers and revolutionary Russia’s war over Bessarabia. Revolutionary Russia, 34(2), pp. 219-238. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2021.1996320)
2020
Swain, G. (2020) The Bolshevik anti-Anarchist action of spring 1918. Revolutionary Russia, 33(2), pp. 221-245. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2020.1830602)
Swain, G. (2020) More thoughts on Grandma's Whiskers. Revolutionary Russia, 33(1), pp. 38-49. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2019.1677012)
2017
Swain, G. (2017) The Centenary of the Russian Revolution: New Directions in Research. Revolutionary Russia, 30(2), pp. 278-281. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2017.1383732)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2017) Peasants, Power, and Place. Revolution in the Villages of Kharkiv Province, 1914–1921. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(5), pp. 838-839. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1327736)[Book Review]
2014
Swain, G. (2014) Deniss Hanovs and Valdis Teraudkalns, Ultimate Freedom - No Choice: The Culture of Authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940. European History Quarterly, 44(2), pp. 331-332. (doi: 10.1177/0265691414524528q)[Book Review]
2013
Swain, G. (2013) Simon Dixon, ed., Personality and Place in Russian Culture: Essays in Memory of Lindsey Hughes. European History Quarterly, 43(1), pp. 137-138. (doi: 10.1177/0265691412469497k)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2013) James Ryan. Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence. Revolutionary Russia, 26(2), pp. 174-175. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2013.855039)[Book Review]
2012
Swain, G. (2012) Before national communism: joining the Latvian Komsomol under Stalin. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(7), pp. 1239-1270. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2012.698051)
Swain, G. (2012) 'The highest flights of circumlocutory art': Britain, Latvia and recognizing the Soviet annexation of 1940. Journal of Baltic Studies, 43(3), pp. 345-362. (doi: 10.1080/01629778.2011.646095)
2011
Swain, G. (2011) Review of 'Warlands: population resettlement and state reconstruction in the Soviet-East European borderlands, 1945-50' edited by Peter Gatrell and Nick Baron. European History Quarterly, 41(2), pp. 311-312. (doi: 10.1177/02656914110410020513)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2011) Review of 'The Bolsheviks in power: the first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd' by Alexander Rabinowitch. Europe-Asia Studies, 63(2), pp. 337-338.
Swain, G. (2011) Review article: Making sense of Stalin's Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 63(5), pp. 891-896. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2011.576032)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2011) Tito: a biography. Series: Communist lives, 5. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781845117276
2010
Swain, G. (2010) Review of 'Istoriia Latvii: ot Rossiiskoi imperii k SSSR' by Lyudmila Vorob'eva. Journal of Baltic Studies, 41(4), pp. 558-560. (doi: 10.1080/01629778.2010.527144)
Smith, D.J. , Galbreath, D.J. and Swain, G. (Eds.) (2010) From Recognition to Restoration: Latvia's History as a Nation-State. Series: On the boundary of two worlds. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789042030985
Swain, G. (2010) Forgotten voices: reflections on Latvia during World War Two. In: Swain, G. and Smith, D. (eds.) From Recognition to Restoration: Latvia's History as a Nation-State. Series: On the boundary of two worlds: identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics (25). Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp. 45-59. ISBN 9789042030985
2009
Swain, G. and Swain, N. (2009) Eastern Europe Since 1945. Series: The making of the modern world. Palgrave Macmillian: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230214590
Swain, G. (2009) Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46 (2nd Edition). Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies. Routledge: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780415546041
Swain, G. (2009) Latvia's democratic resistance: a forgotten episode from the Second World War. European History Quarterly, 39(2), pp. 241-263. (doi: 10.1177/0265691408101440)
2008
Swain, G. (2008) Russia's Civil War (2nd edition). The History Press: Stroud. ISBN 9780752446738
2007
Swain, G. (2007) Divided we fall: division within the national partisans of Vidzeme and Latgale, fall 1945. Journal of Baltic Studies, 38(2), pp. 195-214. (doi: 10.1080/01629770701345107)
2006
Swain, G. (2006) Trotsky. Longman-Pearson. ISBN 9780582771901
Swain, G. (2006) Trotsky and the Russian Civil War. In: Thatcher, I.D. (ed.) Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia: Essays in Honour of James D. White. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 86-104. ISBN 1403998981
2005
Swain, G. (2005) Late imperial revolutionaries. In: McKean, R.B. and Thatcher, I.D. (eds.) Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects: Essays in Honour of R.B. McKean. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719067877
2004
Swain, G. (2004) Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46. Routledge. ISBN 0415331935
Swain, G. (2004) Wreckage or recovery: a tale of two parties. In: Worley, M. (ed.) In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third Period. I.B. Tauris: London, UK. ISBN 9781850434078
2003
Swain, G. (2003) Deciding to collectivise Latvian agriculture. Europe-Asia Studies, 55(1), pp. 39-58. (doi: 10.1080/713663446)
Swain, G. (2003) Cleaning up Soviet Latvia. In: Mertelsmann, O. (ed.) The Sovietization of the Baltic States, 1940-1956. KLEIO Ajalookirjanduse Sihtasutus: Talinn, Estonia. ISBN 9789985930410
Swain, G. (2003) Vacietis: the enigma of the Red Army's first commander. Revolutionary Russia, 16(1), pp. 68-86. (doi: 10.1080/09546540308575765)
Articles
Swain, G. (2021) British adventurers and revolutionary Russia’s war over Bessarabia. Revolutionary Russia, 34(2), pp. 219-238. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2021.1996320)
Swain, G. (2020) The Bolshevik anti-Anarchist action of spring 1918. Revolutionary Russia, 33(2), pp. 221-245. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2020.1830602)
Swain, G. (2020) More thoughts on Grandma's Whiskers. Revolutionary Russia, 33(1), pp. 38-49. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2019.1677012)
Swain, G. (2012) Before national communism: joining the Latvian Komsomol under Stalin. Europe-Asia Studies, 64(7), pp. 1239-1270. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2012.698051)
Swain, G. (2012) 'The highest flights of circumlocutory art': Britain, Latvia and recognizing the Soviet annexation of 1940. Journal of Baltic Studies, 43(3), pp. 345-362. (doi: 10.1080/01629778.2011.646095)
Swain, G. (2011) Review of 'The Bolsheviks in power: the first year of Soviet rule in Petrograd' by Alexander Rabinowitch. Europe-Asia Studies, 63(2), pp. 337-338.
Swain, G. (2010) Review of 'Istoriia Latvii: ot Rossiiskoi imperii k SSSR' by Lyudmila Vorob'eva. Journal of Baltic Studies, 41(4), pp. 558-560. (doi: 10.1080/01629778.2010.527144)
Swain, G. (2009) Latvia's democratic resistance: a forgotten episode from the Second World War. European History Quarterly, 39(2), pp. 241-263. (doi: 10.1177/0265691408101440)
Swain, G. (2007) Divided we fall: division within the national partisans of Vidzeme and Latgale, fall 1945. Journal of Baltic Studies, 38(2), pp. 195-214. (doi: 10.1080/01629770701345107)
Swain, G. (2003) Deciding to collectivise Latvian agriculture. Europe-Asia Studies, 55(1), pp. 39-58. (doi: 10.1080/713663446)
Swain, G. (2003) Vacietis: the enigma of the Red Army's first commander. Revolutionary Russia, 16(1), pp. 68-86. (doi: 10.1080/09546540308575765)
Books
Swain, G. (2011) Tito: a biography. Series: Communist lives, 5. I.B. Tauris: London. ISBN 9781845117276
Swain, G. and Swain, N. (2009) Eastern Europe Since 1945. Series: The making of the modern world. Palgrave Macmillian: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230214590
Swain, G. (2009) Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46 (2nd Edition). Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies. Routledge: Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780415546041
Swain, G. (2008) Russia's Civil War (2nd edition). The History Press: Stroud. ISBN 9780752446738
Swain, G. (2006) Trotsky. Longman-Pearson. ISBN 9780582771901
Swain, G. (2004) Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46. Routledge. ISBN 0415331935
Book Sections
Swain, G. (2010) Forgotten voices: reflections on Latvia during World War Two. In: Swain, G. and Smith, D. (eds.) From Recognition to Restoration: Latvia's History as a Nation-State. Series: On the boundary of two worlds: identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics (25). Rodopi: Amsterdam, pp. 45-59. ISBN 9789042030985
Swain, G. (2006) Trotsky and the Russian Civil War. In: Thatcher, I.D. (ed.) Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia: Essays in Honour of James D. White. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 86-104. ISBN 1403998981
Swain, G. (2005) Late imperial revolutionaries. In: McKean, R.B. and Thatcher, I.D. (eds.) Late Imperial Russia: Problems and Prospects: Essays in Honour of R.B. McKean. Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780719067877
Swain, G. (2004) Wreckage or recovery: a tale of two parties. In: Worley, M. (ed.) In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third Period. I.B. Tauris: London, UK. ISBN 9781850434078
Swain, G. (2003) Cleaning up Soviet Latvia. In: Mertelsmann, O. (ed.) The Sovietization of the Baltic States, 1940-1956. KLEIO Ajalookirjanduse Sihtasutus: Talinn, Estonia. ISBN 9789985930410
Book Reviews
Swain, G. (2017) The Centenary of the Russian Revolution: New Directions in Research. Revolutionary Russia, 30(2), pp. 278-281. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2017.1383732)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2017) Peasants, Power, and Place. Revolution in the Villages of Kharkiv Province, 1914–1921. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(5), pp. 838-839. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1327736)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2014) Deniss Hanovs and Valdis Teraudkalns, Ultimate Freedom - No Choice: The Culture of Authoritarianism in Latvia, 1934-1940. European History Quarterly, 44(2), pp. 331-332. (doi: 10.1177/0265691414524528q)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2013) Simon Dixon, ed., Personality and Place in Russian Culture: Essays in Memory of Lindsey Hughes. European History Quarterly, 43(1), pp. 137-138. (doi: 10.1177/0265691412469497k)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2013) James Ryan. Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence. Revolutionary Russia, 26(2), pp. 174-175. (doi: 10.1080/09546545.2013.855039)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2011) Review of 'Warlands: population resettlement and state reconstruction in the Soviet-East European borderlands, 1945-50' edited by Peter Gatrell and Nick Baron. European History Quarterly, 41(2), pp. 311-312. (doi: 10.1177/02656914110410020513)[Book Review]
Swain, G. (2011) Review article: Making sense of Stalin's Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 63(5), pp. 891-896. (doi: 10.1080/09668136.2011.576032)[Book Review]
Edited Books
Smith, D.J. , Galbreath, D.J. and Swain, G. (Eds.) (2010) From Recognition to Restoration: Latvia's History as a Nation-State. Series: On the boundary of two worlds. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789042030985