THE JOURNAL OF REGIONAL HISTORY V.1 No.4
The revolutionary year of 1917 in Russia – reaction to events and everyday life ...
THE JOURNAL OF REGIONAL HISTORY V.1 No.4

The revolutionary year of 1917 in Russia – reaction to events and everyday life in the diaries and memoirs of political figures of the era: From the Kadets to monarchists

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Denis V. Shchukin
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The article is devoted to consideration and reflection upon the image of historical figures and revolutionary events of 1917 in diaries, memoirs and letters by political figures of that period: Members of the People's Freedom party, Union of October 17, monarchist and social democratic movements.
The focus of the author’s attention is the reaction of the Russian society, representatives of the political space of Russia in the early 20th century, revolutionary events of 1917 and their perception of the image of ‘revolutionary changes’. The article emphasizes that these events left strongly pronounced emotional coloring in the memory of contemporaries, which passed on to the historiography of the Russian Revolution from the private sources. The author notes that an important place in the memoirs and diaries of contemporaries of the revolutionary upheavals in the early 20th century in Russia is taken by the question regarding responsibility for these historical events; also, reflections on their results for Russia are provided.
Denis V. Shchukin
PhD in Historical Sciences, Associate Professor
Yelets State Ivan Bunin University
Yelets, Russia
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9785-4448
dionysios@yandex.ru
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Keywords:
revolution of 1917, party of People's Freedom, the Russian Empire, diary, memoirs, history of Russia
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Shchukin D. The revolutionary year of 1917 in Russia – reaction to events and everyday life in the diaries and memoirs of political figures of the era: From the Kadets to monarchists. Historia provinciae – the journal of regional history, 2017, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 57–74. DOI: 10.23859/2587-8352-2017-1-4-4

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