ABOUT THE OBJECTIVE NATURE OF THE LENINIST PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY SITUATION

Abstract

In preparing the article, the authors set a goal to conduct a study of the validity of published by B. N. Mironov arguments that in the conditions of the first world war, the decline in the living standards of the population of the Russian Empire was insignificant, the socio-economic situation at the turn of 1916– 1917 of XX century was stable, and the insolvency of the “tops” on the eve of February 1917 has been greatly exaggerated, and the grounds to overthrow the monarchy, which contributed to the movement of Russia forward, in February 1917 was absent. The authors used political, historical, legal, formal legal, structural, functional and analytical methods. The authors are forced to cite in the article a significant statistical and factual material and the opinions of not opponents, but supporters of the sovereign, about the rapid growth in the autumn of 1916 and in the beginning of 1917 of the crisis and chaos in almost all spheres of life of society, as in recent years, through the efforts of the monarchists and incompetent in this issue journalists and publicists formed point of view, according to which the situation in Russia was wealthy, the grounds for revolution did not exist, and the collapse of the Empire — the alleged “machinations of enemies”. The authors present the conclusions allowing us to assert that in 1916 and January-February 1917 the mass discontent of the population with the government increased. The reason for the collapse of the monarchy was the inability of the government to solve the problems f acing the country.