Reflections on the Russian Revolution
| Autor: | Maurice Hookham |
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| Rok vydání: | 1967 |
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| Zdroj: | International Affairs. 43:643-654 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2346 0020-5850 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/2612802 |
| Popis: | H TISTORIANS write history for the next generation, whether or not that is their intention. The understanding of modern Russian history by this coming generation will be shaped by two great standard works.' They join together at 1917, and leave the Russian revolution of that year, the most dramatic event in Russian history, strangely out of focus. The momentous events of 1917 were compressed by Mr. Carr into Chapter 4 of the first volume of A History of Soviet Russia, and he put as a footnote to the chapter heading 'From February to October ', 'A history of this vital period is badly needed', and mentioned the 'vast array of . . . first-hand material '.2 There is, for example, nothing yet in English to compare with the range of detail in the three volumes of The History of Great October, published in Russian this year.3 In the main, however, it is not the details about the events of the Russian revolution that are in question so much as the interpretation of its overall significance.4 The questions to which answers are sought cannot be settled by details and they change with each changing mood of current politics. The major events of the half-century that has passed since the revolution enable us, with the benefit of hindsight, to see the revolution in a number of different lights, although it can be argued that the foresight of those living at the time may still give the longer and more penetrating view.5 |
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