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22 DONALD W. TREADGOLD (Seattle, WA, USA) BORIS YEL'TSIN AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1991 The Historical Context: How do current events in Russia relate to the upheavals of the past? The English Revolution of the seventeenth century, the French Revolution of the eighteenth century and the Russian Revolution of this century were attempts to uproot long-existing systems, not to undo any particular event or series of events from their countries' history. But the chief characteristic of the Russian Revolution of 1991 was its aim to reverse the events of October 1917 and the system that emerged from it, without having a clear positive goal in mind. Many outsiders believed that either the intent of the leaders or the natural outcome would be democracy and a market economy. Such an in- tent was unambiguously held only by a small coterie; what is t.o be the "natu- ral" outcome remains obscure. Both optimists, who hail the overcoming of difficulties, and pessimists, who regard them as insuperable, may maintain that Russia never had any democracy in its past. That is a dubious assertion. Full-blown democracy anywhere is a product of only the last century or so. Partial self-government, of the sort
The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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