The Events of 1917 in Russia as a Symbolic Phenomenon of Modern World History
The article from the current position covers the theoretical aspects of the February Revolution of 1917, classified by Historical-Cultural standard (2013) among the difficult issues of history. The author refutes the established categorical statement that “revolutions and civil wars are not the result of the external or internal conspiracy, but the consequence of the objectively existing contradictions in the country”. It is proved that the outcome of the war was already predetermined, and the approaching victory of the Entente led to wide conspiracy of internal and external forces against the Russian state. The overthrow of the ruling dynasty and the subsequent political upheavals allowed the Allies to exclude Russia from among the victors in the war. The author believes these events are significant for the twentieth century and the whole of modern history when in the context of globalization there is a lot of similar coordinated interventions in the fate of sovereign states, including the so-called “color revolutions”. These circumstances increase the urgency of further comprehensive study of the entire history of 1917.