Практики революционной двухпартийности: коалиция большевиков и левых эсеров в органах власти Москвы и Московской области

Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История. 2023. Т. 62. № 3. С. 85–96.

Концевой И. А.

The article examines the problem of interaction between representatives of the Bolsheviks and the Left socialist revolutionaries in the institutions of Soviet power in Moscow and the Moscow region in the first half of 1918. For the first time, the author of the article introduces new archival documents into scientific circulation, which serve as an important source for studying the conflicts of the Bolsheviks and the Left SRs in Moscow governmental institutions. Concrete examples of ideological and administrative clashes are used to study the practices of interaction between the Bolsheviks and the Left SRs within the framework of a dual-party coalition. The author proves that the interaction of representatives of the two parties in the Moscow authorities included both conflicts between the Bolshevik and the Left socialist revolutionary commissars, and joint state work, which consisted in organizing the management of the territory of Moscow and the Moscow region. Archival documents show that there was no single point of view among the Bolsheviks on the need for the existence of separate Moscow authorities. Representatives of the left communists, as well as the Left socialist revolutionaries, advocated the preservation of independent state institutions of the Moscow region, which create the possibility of an alliance between them and the Left socialist revolutionaries. However, the active actions of V. I. Lenin made it possible to prevent a split among the Moscow Bolsheviks. The emergence of dual-party system in the Soviet state institutions was a unique phenomenon in modern history of Russia, since representatives of the neo-populist socialist party could influence managerial decision-making. This situation led to the «power sharing» between the Bolsheviks and the Left SRs, which became a characteristic feature of the "long" revolution of 1917.

Keywords: Moscow, революция 1917 года, большевики, Bolsheviks, город Москва, Left SRs, левые эсеры, Revolution 1917

Publication based on the results of: Russian historical and cultural reflections on the regions and in the regions (18th – 20th centuries) (2023)