The Democratic Conference and the Pre-Parliament in Russia, 1917: class, nationality, and the building of a postimperial community
The article offers a detailed analysis of the debates at the All-Russian Democratic Conference and in the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (the Pre-Parliament), which followed the proclamation of the republic on September 1, 1917, and predated the Bolshevik-led insurgency on October 25. T...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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March 2023
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Nationalities papers
Year: 2023, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 446-468 |
| ISSN: | 1465-3923 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/nps.2021.73 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.73 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/democratic-conference-and-the-preparliament-in-russia-1917-class-nationality-and-the-building-of-a-postimperial-community/3B3CD4B28BECDDFCB58A9BEAA65F7976#article 
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| Author Notes: | Ivan Sablin |
| Summary: | The article offers a detailed analysis of the debates at the All-Russian Democratic Conference and in the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (the Pre-Parliament), which followed the proclamation of the republic on September 1, 1917, and predated the Bolshevik-led insurgency on October 25. The two assemblies were supposed to help resolve the multilayered political, economic, and military crises of the First World War and the Revolution by consolidating a Russian postimperial political community and establishing a solid government. The debates demonstrated that grievances and antagonism, which were articulated in terms of class and nationality, made the idea of a broad nationalist coalition unpopular, since it would halt agrarian and other reforms and continue the negligence of non-Russian groups. Furthermore, those who still called for all-Russian national or civic unity split on the issue of community-building. The top-down, homogenizing and bottom-up, composite approaches proved irreconcilable and precluded a compromise between non-socialist and moderate socialist groups. The two assemblies hence failed to ensure a peaceful continuation of the postimperial transformation and did not lead to a broad coalition against right and left radicalism. The divisions, which were articulated in the two assemblies, translated into the main rifts of the Russian Civil War. |
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| Item Description: | Online-Veröffentlichung von Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2021 Gesehen am 24.06.2024 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1465-3923 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/nps.2021.73 |