The political situation in the Yakut region on the eve of the October stage of the 1917 revolution

For the first time in a separate study, the scientific article examines the political situation in the Yakut region on the eve of October 1917. The alignment of political forces in the region that emerged in the fall of 1917 is characterized. After the departure of the political exiles, power passed into the hands of the Socialist Revolutionaries and Federalists. As in the center of the country, moderate socialists were in power in the Yakut region. In the fall of 1917, disagreements between the Socialist Revolutionaries and Social Democrats intensified, and a “united democracy” was created without the participation of the Council of Workers’ Deputies and the Social Democrats who supported it. Further development of the conflict led to the withdrawal of the Social Democrats from the Yakut Committee of Public Safety. The scientific article concludes that the development of the political situation in Yakutia is associated with the remoteness of the region and the peculiarities of its pre-revolutionary history. In the region, the united organization of the RSDLP operated until 1918. Local Bolsheviks and Mensheviks supported Soviet power, but their forces were too weak. In this regard, the political conditions for the establishment of Soviet power in the Yakut region on the eve of October 1917 did not exist.