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One century is the minimal period that can make the discussion of a major event, such as a revolution, impartial regardless of the political environment. Recent studies have led to the conclusion that the revolution should be considered as a single multistage process, from the tsar’s abdication to the Civil War. When the Great Russian Revolution of 1917–1922 is discussed, the attribute great is used to characterize the scale of its consequences.
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Original Russian Text © S.E. Naryshkin, 2018, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2018, Vol. 88, No. 5, pp. 387–388.
On November 28, 2017, a joint meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Historical Society was held in the Presidential Hall of the RAS Presidium, which highlighted the scientific outcomes of the centenary of the Great Russian Revolution. Opening the meeting, RAS President Academician A.M. Sergeev noted that this epoch-making event had radically changed the fate of our country and that the time had come to analyze anew the causes, course, and consequences of the revolution and synthesize hereon a new vision of what happened 100 years ago, because now the authorities no longer impose an ideologized interpretation of history on scientists. The meeting heard eight brief papers. We offer below six of them.
Sergei Evgen’evich Naryshkin, Dr. Sci. (Econ.), is Chair of the Russian Historical Society and Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation.
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Naryshkin, S.E. Presentation by President of the Russian Historical Society S.E. Naryshkin. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 88, 157–158 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331618030048
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