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Defenders of the Motherland - The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia (Hardcover)
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Defenders of the Motherland - The Tsarist Elite in Revolutionary Russia (Hardcover)
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Defenders of the Motherland studies how the most powerful social
groups in tsarist Russia reacted to the challenges posed by the
Russian Revolutions of 1917. Arguing that elite groups-especially
nobles, landowners, and officers-played an important role in these
events, Matthew Rendle shows how the alienation of tsarist elites
from the tsar during the First World War and their support for the
new Provisional Government in February 1917 secured the initial
success of the revolution.
Elites engaged actively with revolutionary politics, serving in the
government and forming unions to promote their interests and gather
wider support. In doing so, they fostered fears of
counter-revolution amongst the lower social classes, radicalizing
the popular mood and paving the way for the Bolsheviks.
Although increasingly disillusioned with events, elites were not
solely counter-revolutionary and were far from united. A
poorly-supported military revolt in August 1917 demonstrated
different aspirations for the future, whilst as many served the
Bolshevik regime after October 1917 as opposed it. The divisions
that had existed prior to 1917, exacerbated by the revolution,
consequently undermined the White armies' opposition to Bolshevism
during Russia's civil war. Nevertheless, the Bolsheviks' fear of
"class enemies" was endemic, and their obsession with removing the
threat that former elites posed laid the foundations of the violent
and repressive Soviet regime
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