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The Russian Revolutionary Constitution and Pamphlet Literature in the 1917 Russian Revolution

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This essay examines how Russia’s constitutional status was discussed in pamphlet literature in the 1917 Russian revolution. Taken as a discreet source, the pamphlet literature offered detailed and accessible arguments that were crucial to comprehending what sort of Russian revolution contemporaries thought they were engaged in. To a considerable degree, historical studies of 1917 have been determined by its outcome, with a voluminous literature on the Bolsheviks. The pamphlets examined here provide an alternative, non-Bolshevik, promotion of a constitution of rights that sought to create a political culture that would frame and underpin a republican democratic revolutionary settlement. This was the dominant script and predominant expectation of 1917 that the victorious October Revolution managed not only to suppress, but to render historically obscure.

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  • Ian D. Thatcher, 2016. "The Russian Revolutionary Constitution and Pamphlet Literature in the 1917 Russian Revolution," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(10), pages 1635-1653, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:68:y:2016:i:10:p:1635-1653
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2016.1184231
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