International Scientific Forum “The Great Russian Revolution: Memory and Comprehension. 1917–2017”

Abstract

The article highlights the work of the International Scientific Forum “The Great Russian Revolution: Memory and Comprehension. 1917–2017”, which was held in October 19–21, 2017 in St. Petersburg and was dedicated to the centennial anniversary of one of the turning points in the history of Russia and the world. Historians, specialists in international relations, lawyers, political scientists, philologists, philosophers from Russia, China, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, Great Britain and other countries took part in the forum. The work of thematic sections was organized on the basis of the St. Petersburg State University. The military, economic, political, cultural, international aspects of radical transformations were covered. In the opinion of the majority of participants who spoke with speeches and in debates, the events of the First World War, February and October 1917, as well as civil war should be studied as interrelated processes, as different manifestations of the Great Revolution. In the course of fruitful discussions, with a discussion of the historical prerequisites, scope, significance of the revolutionary process in Russia, researchers came to a common opinion about its key influence on the events not only on Russia, but on the world, including the long term influences.