Object's details: Coup d’Etat or a social revolution? The October Revolution 1917 in different historiographies of the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – selected works and selected problems

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Coup d’Etat or a social revolution? The October Revolution 1917 in different historiographies of the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – selected works and selected problems
Creator:
Kulecka, Alicja
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At the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, different historiographies began to move away from the interpretations that treated the October revolution as a separate subject of study. The revolution has come to be inserted in a series of events and presented as just one section of a long process. An important part of creating the narrative on the revolution concerns the search for its general historical meaning. From the liberal perspective, the events of October 1917 are seen as a coup d’etat that resulted in the establishment of the Bolsheviks’ rule, to which they could claim no legal right. However, it was the following civil war which ended in the Bolsheviks’ victory that enabled the Soviet system to take hold. The construction of the new state and the new society was made possible by the defeat inflicted on the Whites in the civil war. The revolution was thus only the first step on the road to establishing communist totalitarianism. From this perspective, one is justified in questioning the revolution’s reputedly crucial role in bringing about a significant historic change. In discussing these issues, scholars have been led to explore the possibility of making the liberal ideology take root in the non-modernised societies. One of the questions posed is whether the liberal ideology gives rise to the civil society or the civil society makes the dissemination of the ideology possible. In Russia in 1917, the public sentiments were largely shaped by those who had only recently stopped being considered slaves of the absolute monarchy, and the experience of representative institutions such as Parliament was still very limited. The fact that the rhetoric of social revolution is no longer used for interpreting the events of October 1917 can be regarded as proof that the founding myth of the Bolshevik Russia and its ideological legacy – the Soviet Union – did not survive the collapse of the state. It has been replaced by the narrative about the political coup d’etat that did not have social support.;
Celem niniejszych rozważań jest próba ukazania zasadniczych dzieł i tez dorobku historiografii światowej przełomu XX i XXI w. odnoszących się do wydarzeń Października 1917 związanych z przejęciem władzy w Rosji przez partię bolszewików kierowanych przez Władimira Lenina. Zaprezentowane refleksje zostały osnute wokół pytania o charakter tego przełomu – czy był on rewolucją społeczną, stanowiącą wynik niezadowolenia mas, chęci zmiany własnej kondycji ekonomicznej i socjalnej, wiążącej się z nowymi potrzebami kulturowymi, czy też zamachem stanu będącym rezultatem działania wąskiej, partyjnej elity zintegrowanej wokół wodza, kierującej się interesami definiowanymi własną ideologią, lekceważącej istniejący system prawny i osiągającej cele z pominięciem panujących w nim zasad.
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Prawa autorskie (c) 2016 Klio Polska. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Historiografii Polskiej
Date:
2016.12.01
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
Polish
Source:
Klio Polska. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Historiografii Polskiej; Nr 8 (2016); 77-101;
2450-8381;
2450-8373
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/KLIOPL/article/view/KlioPL.2016.06/10439
Subject:
social history;
the coup d’etat of October 1917;
the February Revolution of 1917;
bolshevism;
liberalism;
Alexander Kerensky;
Vladimir Lenin;
historia społeczna;
październikowy zamach stanu 1917;
rewolucja lutowa 1917;
bolszewizm;
liberalizm;
Aleksander Kiereński
Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/KLIOPL/article/view/KlioPL.2016.06
Data provider:
Akademicka Platforma Czasopism

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