Corporatism or Democracy: the Russian Provisional Government of 1917

Orlovsky, Daniel T.

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“…In the meantime, particularly as these elections were repeatedly delayed, the government ensured that all important political and social groups were represented in national assemblies and committees, irrespective of their level of support. 114 Those involved in the Military Union knew that in such an environment, despite mass demands for peace, they could express their views and possibly wield some influence. They were not completely disappointed; they helped create battalions of death, they gained representation on committees at Stavka discussing new laws for the military and they were present at nationwide conferences.…”

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Forging a Revolutionary Army: The All-Russian Military Union in 1917

Rendle

2012

War in History

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The Russian military was deeply divided after the February Revolution of 1917, but if Russia was to emerge victorious from the First World War, it needed to forge a unified revolutionary army.This article examines the only serious attempt to foster unity, the All-Russian Military Union.Whilst the union was not successful, a study of its activities emphasizes that divisions existed within social groups in the military as well as between them, which were exacerbated by the authorities. It also sheds light on the role of unions in the military and across Russia in 1917.

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Forging a Revolutionary Army: The All-Russian Military Union in 1917

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2012

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“…The brief discussions of the assemblies tended to focus on the relations between a handful of top-tier politicians (Engelstein 2018, 171–84; Smith 2017, 146–47; Wade 2017, 213, 220–21). While some scholars addressed the two assemblies as peculiar corporatist political institutions (Orlovsky 1997), the debates in them were barely analysed. Geoffrey Swain (1996, 5, 44–52), who emphasized the “enormous importance” of the events in the Pre-Parliament for the historians of the Russian Civil War, provided the most detailed discussion in English, but also mainly focused on the relations between the top-tier politicians and the main political groups.…”

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The Democratic Conference and the Pre-Parliament in Russia, 1917: Class, Nationality, and the Building of a Postimperial Community

Sablin

2021

Nationalities Papers

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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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A Companion to the Russian Revolution

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