title: The February revolution a hundred years later
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metadata.value: Kulikov, Sergey V.
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metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:35:41Z
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metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:35:41Z
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metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.value: Kulikov S. V. The February revolution a hundred years later. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 545–559.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.307
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8445
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metadata.value: The article discusses the problem of correlation between factors of organization and spontaneity
  before and during the February revolution of 1917. Unlike his predecessors, the author believes it
  methodologically incorrect to oppose these factors to each other, as in any revolution they are present
  at the same time. The reason for interpretations of the February revolution as a purely natural event,
  according to the author, is the artificial comingling of the concepts of “conspiracy”, “coup” and “revolution”,
  which in reality are the stages of mainstreaming a holistic phenomenon. February 1917 was the
  result of the activities of the Central Military-Industrial Committee (CMIC) and its Working Group and was a conspiracy, coup and revolution, presenting a mixture of organization and spontaneity. The
  silence of the leaders of the February revolution as to its organized nature is explained by politics: first
  of all was the necessity of using the myth of spontaneity for legitimation of the republican regime.
  Subsequently, Soviet historiography has focused on the actions of the Bolsheviks, and foreign historiography
  on the activities of non-Bolshevik social democratic groups. In this article, for the first time
  in the historiography, special attention is devoted to the Working Group of the CMIC. It was these
  affiliations as a mass labor movement: relief funds for the sick and trade unions, and workers cooperatives
  controlled by the Working Group, that took to the streets of Petrograd on 23 February 1917 and
  then engaged in further street demonstrations. These cooperatives were prepared with the consent of
  the executives of the CMIC, A. I. Guchkov, A. I. Konovalov, and M. I. Tereshchenko. The peak of this
  movement, a military uprising on 27 February 1917, was organized by the same non-partisan center
  led by A. I. Guchkov.
  It was he, using methods of mass and individual pressure on the monarch, who
  forced the tsar to abdicate in favor of the Son of Tsarevich Alexey Nikolayevich, and of his brother,
  Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich. This fact contributed to the preservation of a compromise between
  monarchists and republicans that ensured the victory of the revolution. Refs 82.
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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: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Central Military-Industrial Committee
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: a Working group
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conspiracy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: coup
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolution
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: organization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: spontaneity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The February revolution a hundred years later
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metadata.value: Article
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