Russia in 1917: who helped the bolsheviks' victory?
| Autor | Evgeny Yu. Oborsky |
| Cargo | The North-Caucasus Federal University, Stavropol, Russia |
| Páginas | 362-382 |
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RUSSIA IN 1917: WHO HELPED THE BOLSHEVIKS’ VICTORY?
Evgeny Yu. Oborsky
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Abstract: The relevance of the research
is determined not only by the centenary
of the Russian revolution and global
political instability, but also by the
attempts of overcoming the academic
science’s dependence from the
government propaganda. Purpose of the
research is to analyze the driving forces
of the revolution of 1917 and causes of
the Bolsheviks’ victory. Research
methods: The author uses the dialectics,
positivism, principle of historicism, and
deconstructivism in the paper. The
selection of methods was due to avoiding
party and political impact. Marxism was
in use in the field of the terms like the
masses, classes. Research results The
study analyzed actions of social groups
and individuals like townsfolk, soldiers
and sailors, representatives of all-
Russian and regional governing bodies.
The paper provides a brief characteristics
of the problem’s historiography. Th
author proposes new explanation to the
causes of the rise of the Bolsheviks
popularity in late 1917. Practical
relevance lies in the fact that this study
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The North-Caucasus Federal University, Stavropol, Russia
explains meaningful and unconscious
actions of the government towards
possible prevention of revolutionary
bursts in future.
Keywords: Russian revolution in 1917,
soldiery, townsfolk, the Bolsheviks, V.I.
Lenin.
1. Introduction
Russian revolution of 1917 is the
most important event of the XX century.
Hundreds of books and thousands of
papers dealing with it have been
published by Russian and foreign
authors. Until now, the researchers are
being under political influence from the
governing bodies in the process of
considering various aspects of the crucial
points (Buldakov, 2009). It results in the
emergence of propagandist popular
scientific works. They do not take into
account the huge range of problems in
Russian society in the early XX century
(for example, Nikonov, 2011). The
grandson of the famous Bolshevik and
Stalin's cohort V.М. Molotov, a modern
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political scientist and delegate V.
Nikonov believes that the main driving
force of the revolution was the Russian
elite that carried the great masses of the
people with it. Such rendering of
revolutionary events, beneficial to the
authorities, does not reflect the whole
essence of Russian revolution in 1917.
Soviet historiography was even
more influenced by the authorities, since
the party approach was the only one in
historical science (Gerasimenko, 1995).
The work of Soviet historians resulted in
the accumulation of important vast
historiographic information. However,
their ideological valuations could not
pass the test of time. The methodological
and theoretical dispute in modern
science led to the affirmation of the
importance of an integrated approach to
studying the revolution (Fel’dman,
2015). It is necessary to take into account
the logic of the development the day
earlier and in 1917, when many political
forces tried not to operate the revolution,
but to adapt it for their needs
(Gerasimenko, 1995).
This paper aims at analyzing the
social groups (soldiers and townsfolk)
and the activities of certain individuals
(members of the Provisional
Government and their followers) that
contributed to the Bolsheviks victory in
1917. To confirm the assumptions put
forward, the facts of the all-Russian and
regional levels are cited. The North
Caucasus in that year is taken as an
example of the Russian province: this
region is a one-off in the country.
However, the peculiarities of the “North
Caucasian” revolution reflect the
specifics all Russia.
2. Methodological Framework
2.1 Sources
The research is based on
materials from regional archives
(Krasnodar and Stavropol), recollections
of witnesses, articles and notes from the
central and regional press, as well as
statistical data. They illustrate the
assumptions made, complement each
other, have verifiable data, and are
available for confirmation and other
investigations. The recollections give
valuable historical evidence in the
author's interpretation and help to
evaluate a complex trend of public
mood. Press materials allow one to feel
the emotions and feelings of
representatives of different groups of the
population, representatives of parties and
public organizations. The absence of
propaganda and ideological censorship
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