Національне пи- тання на Женевській конференції соціалістичних партій Росії (2-8 квітня 1905 р.): дискусії та рішення

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to shed light on the SRs’ consideration of projects to resolve the national issue in the Russian Empire at the Geneva Conference of Socialist Parties and to evaluate the proposed ideas for Russia’s restructuring. In the context of reviewing the discussions, special attention was paid to the future of tsarist-enslaved peoples, who were represented at the meetings by delegates from the National Socialist parties and demanded autonomous status, and sometimes national independence and secession from Russia, as in the case of Poland and Finland. The research methodology is based on the principles of concrete-historical approach or historicism, objectivity, comprehensiveness and integrity, systematics, as well as the use of the methods – analysis and synthesis, historical-comparative, historical-typological and problem-chronological. The scientifi c novelty is that in the course of the study for the fi rst time there’s been an attempt made to analyze the consideration of the national question in the Russian Empire at the Geneva Conference and to fi nd out the attitude of the delegates from the National Socialist Parties to the SR projects. A complex topic is considered, which is practically not disclosed in historical studies of this period. Conclusions. Th e Geneva Conference was an important stage in the development of the Russian Revolution, when the leading socialist forces of Russia, as well as the national socialist parties and organizations, sought to understand each other in order to defeat the common enemy, tsarism. It demonstrated common views on the federalization of the Russian state in the postrevolutionary era and the granting of broad autonomy to enslaved nations. A separate point of the agreement was the support for perestroika mechanisms, which stated that the aim of the revolution would be to convene a Constituent Assembly, not only in Russia but also in Poland and Finland, which stated the abolition of tsarism and building a democratic republic. However, the events of the revolution made their adjustments to the plans of the Socialists, so the agreements in Geneva were never implemented in practice.