The Democratic Conference and the Pre-Parliament in Russia, 1917

• Verfasst von: Sablin, Ivan [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The Democratic Conference and the Pre-Parliament in Russia, 1917
• Titelzusatz: class, nationality, and the building of a postimperial community
• Verf.angabe: Ivan Sablin
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: March 2023
• Umfang: 23 S.
• Fussnoten: Online-Veröffentlichung von Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2021 ; Gesehen am 24.06.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Nationalities papers
• Ort Quelle: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1972
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: 51(2023), 2 vom: März, Seite 446-468
• ISSN Quelle: 1465-3923
• DOI: doi:10.1017/nps.2021.73
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: class
• Sach-SW: empire
• Sach-SW: nationalism
• Sach-SW: nationality
• Sach-SW: Russian Revolution
• Sach-SW: socialism
• K10plus-PPN: 1892099608
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Abstract

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.