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ECO journal (ECOnomics and industrial Engineering)

2018 year, number 1

The Great Russian Revolution of 1917: A View Through the Centennial

K. I. Zubkov
Institute for History & Archaeology UB RAS
Keywords: Россия, революция, модернизация, традиция, абсолютизм, самодержавие, буржуазия, капитализм, Запад, Восток, Russia, revolution, modernization, tradition, absolutism, autocracy, bourgeoisie, capitalism, West, East

Abstract

On the basis of re-considering the issue of the social nature of the Russian state and society of the second half of 19th - early 20th centuries and detailed characterization of the absolutist regime and its inherent modernization policies, the article throws light on the social contradictions which called forth the Great Russian revolution of 1917. According to the author, the revolution made apparent the civilizational specificities of Russia as a country combining in its development the social dynamics characteristic of the societies of the West and the East. Inertia of traditionalism and the structural distortions of capitalist development had given the events of 1917 the character of progressive anti-absolutist revolution combining the features of the failed bourgeois revolution, the victorious peasants’ revolt, the radical social turnover, and the traditionalist reaction.