Scholarly record
RUSSIAN LIBERALS AT THE HEAD OF RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN FEBRUARY-OCTOBER 1917
Abstract
The article presents the problems of Russias foreign policy governance between the February and October revolutions of 1917 in the Russian liberals opinion. The liberal opposition supported the government in the main issues of tactics and strategy of the foreign policy activity. One can speak about the identity of positions of the Russian liberals and autocratic government and Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a range of foreign policy issues only in the context of the time period of years 1907-1914. The liberals supported the foreign policy of Tsarism only in the cases when it coincided with the theses of their foreign policy program and met the interests of large national bourgeoisie as a class. The outbreak of war altered the political situation in the state and the balance of forces amongst the liberal oppositional one bout. Despite some reforms in Russian foreign policy and its international and democratic slogans, the Provisional government, which first had had bourgeois-liberal character, and then became a coalition government, was ideologically not ready for the main and necessary step of that moment for conclusion of a separate peace with Germany. In the situation, when the war-worn state was in an economic crises, faced the collapse of government and had the masses with the strong desire to end the war as soon as possible, such the position of the Provisional government deprived it of the necessary support and doomed it to failure in its confrontation with radical revolutionary parties.
Publication Impact Profile
Publication details
References15
State Duma. The third convocation. Verbatim records. Part II. SPb., 1908.
State Archive. Foundation 629. Inventory 1. File 16. Sheet 37.
Pearson R. Russian Moderates and the Crisis of Tsarism. 1914-1917. London.
Laverychev V.Y. On the other side of the fence (of the history of the struggle of the bourgeoisie against the revolution in Moscow). Moscow, 1967.
Minutes of the Central Committee and foreign groups the Constitutional Democratic Party. // Vol. 2. Minutes of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party. 1912-1914. M., 1997.
Milyukov P.N. Memories. M., 2001. – P. 592.
Archive of the Russian foreign policy. Foundation of Circulars for the Foreign Ministry, in 1917. File 70. Sheet 8.
Proceedings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1917. Books I-II. Petrograd, 1917.
Archive of the Russian foreign policy. Foundation of Department II, I-5. Inventory 408. 1917. File 1343. Sheet 1. Vol. 2.
Archive of the Russian foreign policy. Foundation of Department of LC and XD. Foreign Ministry reorganization. Inventory 731. File 234. Sheet 1-4 verso; Inventory 731. File 193. Sheet 80; Inventory 731. File 218. Sheet 52-53; Sheet 64-64 verso;Inventory 726. File 37. Sheet 47-48 verso.
Archive of the Russian foreign policy. Foundation of Department of printing and awareness. Inventory 477. File 804. Sheet 105-108.
Archive of the Russian foreign policy. Foundation of Office. 1917 Inventory 470. File 5. L. 33 verso; Inventory 470. File 5. L. 185-185 verso; Inventory. 470. File 97.Vol. I. Sheet 116; File 61. Sheet 111.
Collection of Laws orders of the government. № 219 of 13/26 September 1917 Art. 1476.
Lopuhin V.P. People and Politics (the end of XIX-beginning of XX centuries.). // Questions of history, 1966. № 11.
Archive of the Russian foreign policy. Foundation of Mission in Belgium. File 1. Sheets 13, 16, 23.
View or Download full articleAccess options
SWS access login
Login as SWS Scientific CommitteeLogin as SWS Scientific PartnerLogin as SWS AuthorAuthors and approved SWS contributors will read and export their own linked papers after identity matching by SWS profile, email and SGEM GlobalID.
For librarian assistance: [email protected]
Purchase Instant Access
- Article can be downloaded after successful payment.
- Article may be used according to SWS library access terms.
- Article cannot be redistributed.
