The Great Russian revolution of 1917: problem of geopolitical and civilizational identity

Nihilistic assessments of the Great Russian Revolution, especially the events of October, are widespread in the civil society of modern Russia. In our view, this term should not be abandoned, since the term “Great” means, first of all, not approval, but a statement of its special historical significance for the whole world. In historical political science, the Russian revolution of 1917 has long been regarded as a continuous contradictory process of emergence and development of fundamentally new political institutions and parties, legal norms and social relations. The February revolution in Petrograd and the formation of the Provisional government were only the beginning, followed by the April, June and July crises, the cornelian rebellion in August, the Bolshevization of the Petrograd garrison, Navy and Soviets, the arrest of the Provisional government and the "technological" transition of power to the second Congress of Soviets led by the Bolsheviks in October. One of a number of arguments in favor of this concept is, in our opinion, the position of the don Cossacks in this period given in the article. In addition to the objective socio-economic and military components of the revolution, there were powerful geopolitical and civilizational factors. The Eurasian trend in the emigration of the 1920s, seen in the Russian revolution, not just anti-february Thermidor, and the denial of the St. Petersburg European period of Russian history. In this interpretation, Bolshevism was presented as a movement of the “conservative Eurasian revolution” that did not realize the meaning of its historical mission. This civilizational-geopolitical understanding of the essence of the Russian revolution contained a significant rational grain. The Russian revolution directly and immediately woke Asia and, above all, a multimillion-dollar semi-colonial China of the 1920s-1930s came during periods of national democratic and the socialist revolutions and two civil wars, and in 1949 by the Soviet Union installed a new Communist regime. It was not easy social, but civilizational-geopolitical revolution. The revolution of 1917 gave impetus to the development of Soviet subcivilization, the Asian vector of the “World revolution” led to the great success of the PRC. The task of revival on the basis of Russia with its traditional "quasi-Imperial" spirit of geopolitical and civilizational unity in the form of the Eurasian Union became continuation of comprehension of this process.