Гражданская война и ее последствия для российского общества

Abstract

Currently, the interpretation of the essence of such important historical events as the revolution of 1917 and the civil war in Russia continues. These events are also characterized as “turmoil” and “peasant war”. The author relies on the tools of the theory of socio-economic formations and analyzes the situation in the country after the civil war. The author points out that the social structure of society is extremely simplified, and this greatly affected the subsequent development of the country. The society, in its development over the next 70 years after the revolution, passed the stages resembling serfdom, the use of slave labor was repeated in the Gulag system, and finally, in the depths of the system, called socialism, capitalist relations objectively ripened. The author shows the events in the left-Bank Ukraine after the “Ruin”, as a similar situation, when society was simplified, rolled back to the level of military democracy, but then returned to the establishment of serf-dom. The author believes that the theory of socio-economic formation has been discarded by researchers, because in spite of it the society has moved from socialism to capitalism. The author believes that this is unfair, since there was no socialism in the USSR, and there was a still unqualified scientific period.