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The First World War and the Polarization of the Russian Right, July 1914–February 1917

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Mikhail Loukianov
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On the eve of the World War I, members of the Russian right deeply differed in their visions of the status quo and the means of its proper reconstruction. The war further differentiated the Right. The rightists, regardless of the ideological nuances, perceived the war as a chance for political revival. The outburst of patriotism in July and August 1914 became the most serious argument in favor of political reform. Their opponents, on the contrary, saw in it a chance to get rid of democratic institutions and practices. While the more moderate rightists leaned towards consensus, with liberals looking at political dialogue as the most effective instrument for securing social stability, the extreme ones concluded that strict control from above was a more adequate instrument for achieving this goal. All this aggravated the pre-war conflicts within the Right and led to its disintegration on the eve of the Revolution of 1917.

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Slavic Review , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , Winter 2016 , pp. 872 - 895
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I am indebted to the Deutsches Historisches Institut (Moscow) and the Central European University (Budapest) for fi nancial and organizational support and personally to Professor Alfred J. Rieber for his friendly advice and consultations. Also, I want to express my gratitude to research seminars at Central European University Department of History and the Center for Comparative Studies in History and Political Science at Perm State National Research University for the possibility to discuss the ideas developed in this article. I also want to thank Professor Igor′ K. Kiryanov, Professor Mark D. Steinberg, and anonymous readers for their comments, and Pavel Mikhailovich Egovtsev and Mikhail Suslov for helping with the translation of this article into English.

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139. Liutsilii [D.I. Bulatovich], “Tri mysli,” Russkoe znamia, January 20, 1917, 1–2.

140. Liutsilii [D.I. Bulatovich], “Khristianskaia gosudarstvennost,” Russkoe znamia, January 26, 1917, 1.

141. I.L. Tsytovich, Vyshee gosudarstvennoe popechitel′stvo (Kiev, 1917), 11–12.

142. N.N. Tikhanovich-Savitskii to G.G. Zamyslovskii, January 18, 1917. GARF, f, 102, op. 265, d. 1069, l. 119.

143. N.N. Tikhanovich-Savitskii to N.A. Maklakov, January 31, 1917. GARF, f, 102, op. 265, d. 1070, l. 10ob.

144. Ibid., l. 11.

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147. N.N. Tikhanovich-Savitskii to G.G. Zamyslovskii, February 15, 1917. GARF, f. 102, op. 265, d. 1070, l. 61.

148. Diary of B.V. Nikol′skii, entry for June 18, 1915. RGIA, f. 1006, op. 1, d. 4b, l. 360. One and one-half years later he maintained: “I am completely uninvolved with politics, as never does anything good come from it.” (Diary of B.V. Nikol′skii, entry for January 13, 1917. RGIA, f. 588, op. 1, d. 1133b, l. 65ob.

149. I.I. Vostorgov to E.F. Vostorgova, September 7, 1915. GARF, f. 102, op. 265, d. 1030, l. 1397.