THE ROLE OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY ELITE IN THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION OF 1917 Cover Image

Улога руске војне елите у Октобарској револуцији 1917.
THE ROLE OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY ELITE IN THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION OF 1917

Author(s): Aleksej J. Timofejev
Subject(s): History, Military history, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: October Revolution of 1917; General Staff of Russia; A. F. Kerensky; coup d’état organization; assassination

Summary/Abstract: Based on unpublished archival materials, memoirs and relevant literature, the paper analyses the attitude of officers of the Russian General Staff towards the fall of the Provisional Government of A. F. Kerensky and the rise of the Bolsheviks, which ended with a coup d’état on October 25 (November 7), 1917. New archival data was found in the unpublished memoirs of Lieutenant General Vladimir Vladimirovich Marushevsky (1874–1952), the last Chief of the General Directorate of the General Staff of Russian Army at the time of the October Revolution, who ended his life in exile in Yugoslavia.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 35-60
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Serbian