Abstract
This paper analyzes the changes in public attitude and political behavior of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatka city dwellers during the opening months of the Great Russian Revolution, with the writers paying especially close attention to the reasons and circumstances behind these changes. This research allows to define the specifics of public conscience transformation in the spring-summer of 1917 in the territories remoted from the main revolutionary front, as well as to plan further research concerning these matters. The paper clearly shows that the most far-away provinces of Russia were gradually getting involved in the revolution during the first half of 1917. This piece of work is written on the basis of both published and unpublished historical sources. A local newspaper titled “The Kamchatka News Letter”, which was the first printed newspaper in Kamchatka published from May 2, 1914 to spring of 1918, became the main source of historical information for the authors of this research.
Highlights
Both Russian and overseas researchers of many different fields and schools have continued to study the events of the Great Russian Revolution for more than a hundred years
According to Kamchatskiy listok (1917a), “The city dwellers were indifferent to the news of the revolution
The analysis of historical sources allows to follow the post-February changes in public attitude and political behavior of the provincial city dwellers, as well as to analyze reasons and circumstances behind these changes
Summary
Both Russian and overseas researchers of many different fields and schools have continued to study the events of the Great Russian Revolution for more than a hundred years. The broadening of the research topics and the inclusion of new subjects into practice is a unique trait of modern research work. It is the Russian everyday life and public conscience transformation during the revolutionary years that attract special attention. Until now there have been no published research papers on the public conscience transformation of the Kamchatka dwellers during the 1917 Revolution. By using modern methodological approaches and analyzing newly-found sources, the authors of this piece of work present the everyday life in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and its citizens’ political behavior transformations in the winter-autumn period of 1917
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