Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet while contemporaries were cognizant of these global connections, historiography has been largely limited to analysis of the nation-state. A century later, this book discusses the transnational dimension of the numerous upheavals, rebellions, and violent reactions on a global level that began with 1917.

Revolutions and counter-revolutions: an introduction /Stefan Rinke and Michael Wildt -- 1917-1920 and the global revolution for rising expectations / Jörn Leonhard -- Portent or salvation: the Russian Revolution / Dietrich Beyrau -- A laboratory of modern politics: the Russian Revolution and its international legacy / Jan Claas Behrends -- Global Catholicism's crusade against communism, 1917-1963 / Patrick J. Houlihan -- After empire, before nation: competing ideologies and the Bolshevik moment of the Anatolian Revolution / Abdulhamit Kirmizi -- The role of violence in the European counter-revolution, 1917-1939 / Robert Gerwarth -- The role of the Siberian intervention in Japan's modern history / Izao Tomio -- China in the age of revolutions, counter-revolutions and violence / Xu Guoqi -- "The birth year of revolutions": Latin American debates about the global challenges of 1917-1919 / Stefan Rinke -- Global moments, local impacts: Argentina at the critical juncture of 1917 / María Inés Tato -- Spain's "Crisis of 1917" Enric Ucelay-Da Cal -- The importance of being female: women and (counter-)revolution in Spain (1917-1939) / Birgit Aschmann -- World War I and urban societies: social movements, fears, and spacial order in Hamburg and Chicago (c. 1916-1923) / Klaus Weinhauer -- The aesthetics of revolution: Dada and the transgression of borders / David Hopkins -- The appearance and rise of popular culture: Mexico, Russia and the United States, 1917-1920 / Ricardo Pérez Montfort.