ИЗВЕСТИЯ СОИГСИ

DOI 10.23671/VNC.2018.66.11469

The article is devoted to reviewing the situation in the Stavropol region that resulted from the February bourgeois-democratic and October socialist revolutions. The analisys of events of the revoltionary past of our coutry is relevant because of centenary of 1917 October Revolution. Formation of new authorities such as public security committees and zemstvo (an institution of local government) is shown. Membership of new trade unions and councils of deputies is considered. The reasons for the further deepening of the crisis, which led to an establishment of the Soviet power are revealed. The peculiarities of a Soviet power victory in the Stavropol region are defined. The evaluation of an activity of the Bolshevik Party in the Stavropol region after October events in the capital is given. The Stavropol region example shows peculiarities of Bolshevik institutions in the hinterlands. On the basis of the regional archive and the local press the author analyzes the organization and realization of elections to the Constituent Assembly, and the role of political parties in this process. The results of the election campaign in the Stavropol region and in a whole country are summed up. Special attention is paid to the work of the General Provincial National Assembly which adopted a resolution on the organization of the Soviet power in the province. The author pays attention to the role of the Center in the revolutionary activity on the outskirts of the country.

Keywords: Stavropol region, Provisional government, commissar, the Consituent Assembly, election campaign, the General Provincial National Assembly, the Soviet power.

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