title: Searching for the “Strong Hand”: The Revolutionary Crisis in Russia in 1917 and the French Assessments on its Termination
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metadata.value: Magadeev, I. E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T19:21:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T19:21:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.value: Magadeev I. E. ‘Searching for the “Strong Hand”: The Revolutionary Crisis in Russia in 1917 and the French Assessments on its Termination’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 3, 2021, pp. 576–588.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.301
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33439
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article explores how French diplomatic and military representatives in Russia perceived the growing
  revolutionary crisis of 1917 and what means they proposed to terminate it. Though the French perceptions of
  the Russian revolution are rather well researched, scholars paid attention chiefly to French estimates linked to
  the international and strategic situation of Russia and not to the interior processes in this country. Exploring these
  questions allows us to widen our understanding of the international context of the Russian revolution and to throw
  new light on the events of 1917 through the lens of French perceptions. This article is based on the underresearched
  documents from the Diplomatic archives of the French Foreign Ministry and from the National Archives of
  France. After having analyzed dispatches of French diplomats and military representatives in Russia during 1917,
  the author discerns two interlinked tendencies of these observers. First, they notice growing disorganization and
  “anarchy” in Russia; second, they tried to find and to support political forces in Russia that were capable of restoring
  “order” and to continue the fight in the war. However, inside this conceptual “frame” there were significant
  controversies. Conservative French diplomats and the military initially put their hopes in Alexander Kerensky and
  then in General Lavr Kornilov. After being disappointed in both, they tried to restore “discipline” and to conserve
  the Eastern front by external forces. Left French observers initially had more enthusiasm for the February revolution
  and even after the evaporation of these hopes warned Paris not to support counterrevolutionary forces in
  Russia. In many aspects, discussions about Russian policy of France in 1917 foreshadowed the dilemmas in the
  relations of Paris with “Reds” and “Whites” during the intervention and the Civil war.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 1917
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: France
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Entente
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Janin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Thomas
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sadoul
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Searching for the “Strong Hand”: The Revolutionary Crisis in Russia in 1917 and the French Assessments on its Termination
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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