“Monumental” version of the Great Russian revolution history in modern historiography

Abstract

The article attempts to consider the latest academic studies in the context of preparations for the 100th anniversary of the Great Russian Revolution. By the materials of the texts of three famous professional historians Yu.A. Petrov, V.V. Shelokhaev and V.A. Nikonov the author makes the historical and scientific analysis and design of the of research study logic, in the form in which it manifested itself in her discourse. In order to identify and comprehend innovative approaches formulated in those texts the author of the article tends to immerse into the intellectual context of attracted historiography sources. The article is mainly dedicated to the analysis of the construction in the Great Russian revolution constructed in the contemporary historical knowledge of the new version for the Great Russian revolution of 1917 alternative to the image of the revolution in the Soviet historiography .The author of the article reveals distinctive features of the model proposed by historians for the 1917 revolution; therefore, the main attention is focused on the selection criteria of historical and historiography sources that constitute a representative basis for constructing a new image of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917.