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Abstract
The application of modernization theory to an analysis of the Russian Revolution of 1917 shows it to have been a by-product of successful modernization. The conflict between tradition and modernity did not lead inexorably to the revolution but only created the potential for it, which became a reality due to he difficulties of wartime and the struggle for power between the opposition and the monarchy.
Notes
English translation © 2014, 2015, from the Russian text © 2013 by the author. “Russkaia revoliutsiia 1917 goda kak pobochnyi produkt modernizatsii,” Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia, 2013, no. 10, pp. 29–39. A publication of the Russian Academy of Sciences; the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences; and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Boris Nikolaevich Mironov is a doctor of historical sciences, chief science associate at the St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a professor at St. Petersburg State University. Translated by Kim Braithwaite. Translation reprinted from Sociological Research, vol. 53, no. 5. doi: 10.2753/SOR1061-0154530506