1991
DOI: 10.1108/03068299110005042
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On the Causality of Great Personalities and Great Events Exemplified by Lenin and the October Revolution

Abstract: Was the October Revolution inevitable? If yes, what was its real character? If not, could it have been avoided or taken a different course? What was the role played in it by Lenin? Using the dialectical method of analysis, an attempt is made to provide answers to these questions. The following points are stressed: (1) Given the general and particular conditions of Russian life created by the First World War and the February Revolution, the break with the old democratic mixed capitalist form and the establishme… Show more

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“…That this had not materialized was due to WWI… the war first greatly weakened the monarchy and finally, washed it away from the Russian scene. The political vacuum created by the fall of the monarchy was quickly filled by the Provisional Government, which for a short historical moment (February‐October 1917) was brought to the surface by the flood of these events (Raiklin, 1991a, p. 110). …”
Section: The Pre‐soviet Model Of Economic Growth and Developmentmentioning
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“…That this had not materialized was due to WWI… the war first greatly weakened the monarchy and finally, washed it away from the Russian scene. The political vacuum created by the fall of the monarchy was quickly filled by the Provisional Government, which for a short historical moment (February‐October 1917) was brought to the surface by the flood of these events (Raiklin, 1991a, p. 110). …”
Section: The Pre‐soviet Model Of Economic Growth and Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…But under the conditions of continuing war, the fate of the Provisional Government and the February Republic which created it was sealed as well. Some of the major reasons for this can be summarized as follows (Raiklin, 1991a, p. 112):It had to legalize all political parties formally, because their actual existence within the vacuum of political power brought about by the destruction of monarchy and expressed in the duality of power[8] left the government no other avenue. It had to abrogate all restrictions based on social and class status, because the old feudal order was compromised by the deeds of the monarchy during the war and by the hostility of peasants towards the landed nobility.…”
Section: The Pre‐soviet Model Of Economic Growth and Developmentmentioning
confidence: 99%
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