Causes of revolution of 1917 in Russia (social-cultural aspect)

This article attempts to establish the causes of the Revolution of 1917 in Russia and the civil war events that followed after. The authors focus on the fact that as the revolution itself, which took place in stages as a single process throughout 1917 and spanning several years of civil war, was extremely violent form. After these events the entire social-economic infrastructure of the country were settled and the population had a huge decline in their numbers. The authors believe that unprecedented the brutality of the events of 1917-1921 was due to the fact that Russian society had no common social-cultural basis for unity. The cultural rift largely occurred after Peter's reforms, the result of which was the loss characteristic of pre-Petrine Russia conciliar forms of life. The events of 1917 and the ensuing absolutely logical way, a bloody civil war was largely determined by the absence in the Russian Empire, a single social-cultural grounds for interaction between different social layers. Society has divided into “us” and “them”. The result was a situation of unresolved conflict, ready at any moment to transform into a brutal war of all against all for the sake of mutual and total destruction. Clear differentiation and polarization of the opposing forces in 19171921 years was due to the role of the so-called revolutionary intellectuals, which offered the lowest strata of the Russian society of ideological values, which was largely in tune with the sobornost'-traditionalist notions of the peasantry of ownership, authority, law and other social institutions.