This article examines the emergence and evolution of revolutionary museology in Imperial Russia between 1901 and 1917, addressing a previously understudied aspect of revolutionary culture. By analysing four successive attempts to establish revolutionary museums – the Russian Museum in Geneva (1901–1902), Maxim Gorky’s initiative on Capri (1912–1913), Vladimir Burtsev’s various projects, and the Petrograd House Museum (1917) – it explores how revolutionaries appropriated and adapted European museum models to articulate their collective history. The paper argues that these museum-building efforts reflected a broader musealisation of revolutionary culture, in which material artefacts increasingly shaped revolutionary memory. While embodying the revolutionaries’ subjective sense of unity, these initiatives simultaneously revealed underlying tensions between revolutionary ideals and national narratives. Although none of these initiatives fully materialized, they preceded later Soviet historical-revolutionary museums, demonstrating how museums became key sites for negotiating and constructing revolutionary identity.

This article examines the pivotal role of Georgian Muslims in the revolutionary movement during the 1905 Russian Revolution. It highlights how Georgian Muslim revolutionaries, shaped by revolutionary, nationalist and Ottoman intellectual currents, contributed to a process of national revival in Georgia. The analysis emphasizes the complexity of Georgian Muslim identity, molded by diverse cultural forces, and challenges primordial historical narratives by affirming the significance of multifaceted intellectual influences within Georgian history.

The Bratstvo Russkoi Pravdy (BRP) was a self-proclaimed terrorist organization that emerged among the Russian emigration in the interwar period. Their grandiose claims of terrorist activities inside the USSR put the BRP at the centre of much controversy during its existence and are still a matter of debate, which has at times eclipsed the analysis of other aspects of the organization. This article, focusing on the BRP’s main organ, Russkaia Pravda, as well as other publications by the group, will attempt to show that the organization was ideologically close to fascism in both its Italian and German varieties, actively trying to promote these ideas within the Russian diaspora and establishing ties with groups and organizations aligned with fascism.