title: Ex-Socialists as Human Resources for the Communist Party between February and October Revolutions (March — October 1917)
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metadata.value: Shishkin, V. I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-29T20:55:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-29T20:55:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Shishkin V. I. ‘Ex-Socialists as Human Resources for the Communist Party between February and October Revolutions (March — October 1917)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 4, 2021, pp. 857–870.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.402
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37003
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: At the end of the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century, political parties became the main
  actors for Russia’s social and economic processes and events. During the last three decades, they have been
  the focus of scholars’ efforts since classified sources of the Soviet period were opened for public access at the
  end of the 20th century. Intense scholarship shaped two main approaches to the topic. One focuses on each
  political party individually, and the other focuses on interactions between all of them. The second approach, even
  considering its merits, remains limited because relationships are explained mainly through competition between
  political parties, whereas in reality, connections were more diverse. This article makes a first attempt to show at
  personal and group levels the transition of former socialists to the Bolshevik party between the February and October
  revolutions. It identifies specific party leaders and groups that changed their political views and positions;
  establishes the time and motives for their break with their former parties to join the Bolsheviks; and clarifies the
  impact of their joining the Bolshevik party. Based on an analysis of questionnaires of delegates who participated
  in the Sixth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks), the article concludes that by the
  end of the summer of 1917, the Bolshevik political elite consisted of almost 43 % of former socialists, among whom
  there was a large proportion of professional revolutionaries. Such human resources, mostly consisting of “left-socialists,”
  contributed to the radicalization of the RSDLP(b), reorienting the political struggle from democratic and
  political methods to violence and militarism.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: RSDLP(b)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bolsheviks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: socialists
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mensheviks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: internationalists
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Social Democrats
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mezhraiontsy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: professional revolutionaries
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: 1917
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ex-Socialists as Human Resources for the Communist Party between February and October Revolutions (March — October 1917)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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