RUSSIAN POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE REVOLUTION OF 1917
This article examines the main characteristics of the Russian political culture during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Among many factors that affected the revolutionary transformations in Russia, the most important are: historical legacy, culture, political and social conflicts, and, ultimately, the economic conditions of life faced by the majority of the population. Russia possesses a unique political culture, which includes society’s customary way of life, comprising both accepted modes of thought and belief, patterns of conduct, and a cultural heritage. An analysis of the institutional and symbolic contexts of Russian revolution advances our understanding of Russia’s experience of revolution, its relationship to the early Soviet period, and the complex memory of revolution existing today.