THE STUDY OF POGROMS IN RUSSIAN CITIES (1917-1918) FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE THEORY OF SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY
The article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of riots in Russian cities during the revolutions of 1917-1918. The study is based on a database that contains information on more than 600 violent events. The authors analyze the dynamics, forms, requirements, composition of rioters. The theory of self-organized criticality (SOС) was used to study the nonlinear effects that occurred during the social movement. It was found that some investigated time series represent pink noise, which is an attribute of SOС. This indicates that Russian society as a whole was in a state of self-organized criticality. This process was caused by short-term wartime factors, and also had long-term preconditions that arose during the period of the post-reform modernization.