February Revolution of 1917 in Nizhny Novgorod: New Aspects
While introducing new archival sources into scientific use, the author describes the events of the February Revolution in Nizhny Novgorod and treats them as a spontaneous process which representatives of different opposition parties tried to set on the organized track. It is noted that already during the first days of the transition period the lines of social and political resistance began to show: on the one hand, between the proletarian masses and the bourgeois-intellectual layers, on the other hand, between proponents of different socialist conceptions. The author stresses that this resistance served as the basis for formation of the diarchy (or rather, polyarchy) system and accelerated radicalization of public sentiments.