Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia : A Provincial History
The catastrophic failure of the Provisional Government’s attempts to govern Russia and to safely usher in a democratically elected national assembly overshadows any study of 1917. The democratic party political system that was used as a basis for the new regime failed to take root, and was swept...
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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Tóm tắt: | The catastrophic failure of the Provisional Government’s attempts to govern
Russia and to safely usher in a democratically elected national assembly
overshadows any study of 1917. The democratic party political system that
was used as a basis for the new regime failed to take root, and was swept
away by the Bolshevik seizure of power inOctober 1917. This book will look
at the roots of Russian democracy’s collapse after only eight brief months,
by exploring the experiences of ordinary people in 1917. The evidence from
Nizhegorod and Kazan suggests that localism overwhelmed national interests
in 1917, and that, as Donald Raleigh put it, ‘Russia was breaking into
local economic units’.1 This study argues that ordinary people displayed
autonomy and direction in 1917, but that their motivations and shortterm
goals did not coincide with those of the state. For Nizhegorod and
Kazan, February 1917 began the process of a complete collapse of central
governmental power. The Provisional Government’s faith in democratic
government, and in the potential of Russia’s people to govern themselves,
proved to be incompatible with their other goals of maintaining domestic
peace and order, and continuing Russia’s involvement in the war effort. |
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