The February Revolution of 1917: background and character
The February Revolution of 1917 is one of thethe most hackneyed topics in Russian historiography. At the same time, it can not be said that it does not deserve so much attention that was paid to it both in the Soviet era and in our days. No matter how much talk about its preparedness, profitability to third parties and foreign financial injections, the February 1917 revolution had objective reasons and assumptions that had been growing for many years. It is about them and the character of the revolution that will be discussed in this article.
The causes of the 1917 revolution
This event did not become for the Russianthe first revolutionary upheaval. The obvious need for a large-scale reorganization of the social, political and economic structure began to manifest itself from the middle of the nineteenth century. Still the Crimean war of 1853-56 years has shown backwardness of Russia in comparison with the advanced states of that time - England and France. Certain measures were actually taken, but the large-scale reforms of the 1860s did not lead to sufficient results. Features of the law on the elimination of serfdom and did not allow the peasants to breathe a full breast, "catching up" the modernization of production and remained "catching up" to the beginning of the XX century. The beginning of a new century is becoming a period of constant public ferment for Russia. In the country one after another arise and form political parties of various kinds. Many of them call for the most decisive action. The main pressing issues of
Results of the 1917 Revolution
However, February also did not bring the decision of allproblems. The rapidly developing events have indeed led to the fall of the monarchical regime and the democratization of the political system. It was finally proclaimed civil equality and inviolability of the person. However, the country has become even more unstable. The peculiar result of the revolution was the dual power that arose in Russia-the Soviets of Soldiers 'and Workers' Deputies in the provinces and the Provisional Government in the center. The subsequent months of political and social stagnation raised the question of the necessary continuation of the reforms that had begun. This was the continuation of the October Revolution of 1917.