The February revolution 1917: the background and the nature of

The February revolution of 1917 is one of the most hackneyed themes in Russian historiography. However, we cannot say that she does not deserve such attention that she was given as in the Soviet era and nowadays. Whatever was said about her training, the benefit to third parties and foreign financial injections, the February revolution of 1917 had objective reasons and preconditions felt for many years. It is about them and about the nature of revolution will be discussed in this article.

The causes of the revolution of 1917

This event is because not the became for the Russian Empire, the first revolutionary upheaval. An obvious need for a large-scale reorganization of the social, political and economic structure began to manifest since the mid-nineteenth century. Even the Crimean war of 1853-56 years have demonstrated the backwardness of Russia in comparison with the advanced countries of that time-England and France. Certain measures were indeed taken, however, major reforms of the 1860s did not lead to sufficient results. Features of the law on the elimination of serfdom did not allow the peasants to take a deep breath, “catch-up” modernization of production remained “catch-up” by the beginning of XX century. The beginning of the new century became for Russia a period of permanent social unrest. In the country one after another and having formed political parties of various stripes. Many are calling for the most decisive action. The main pressing issues that Time needed democratization of public life, alleviating choking the peasant class, the creation of labour legislation and the resolution of contradictions between the rapidly growing working class and the capitalists. Neither the revolution of 1905-1907, neither the Stolypin reforms (primarily agricultural, undertaken as an attempt to solve the main problem of social contradictions – peasant) to anything substantial failed. But beginning in 1914, the First world war aggravated the situation in the country, bringing her devastation and economic collapse. Though the events of 1905-1907 did not lead to the desired results, but they served as a kind of preparatory stage for the progressive forces. Therefore, the events of 1917 was in its way a continuation of the revolution of 1905-1907 As the last straw was the hardships of war, the 1917 revolution began with anti-war Demonstrations, demanding to make peace and, of course, to solve the above-noted public concern, which reached its apogee during this period. Among the causes of any revolution is always also important to name the factors that had taken place earlier, but which gave her the opportunity to happen at some point. In our case, one should highlight the sharp fall in the prestige of the Romanov family. If in the second half of the nineteenth century farmers believed in ‘the good king" simply did not know about their troubles, and were ready to go to lay down his life for “national father”, as the epic Ivan Susanin, the spread of the bourgeois-democratic and socialist ideas in the early twentieth century undermined this blind obedience.

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