February in the Shadow of October

Abstract

Last year marked the centennial of the 1917 February Revolution. Throughout the intervening century, it has been overshadowed by the October coup, a testament, in part, to the incommensurable quantitative gap in favor of the latter when it came to research and documentary publications. This situation has begun to change only in the past two decades, when there was a marked trend toward renewed scholarly and public interest in the history of February (Pushkaeva, 2002) and quite a few foundational monographic studies, collections of articles, and documentary publications devoted to this event came out. Dozens of international and Russian scholarly conferences were also held and, of course, made a significant contribution to the development of a wide range of scholarly questions. A shift in research approaches has allowed for a significant broadening of the range of subjects being studied and for the more active use of previously unknown Russian and foreign sources. A plethora of pseudo-scholarly