Политизация и деполитизация, энтузиазм и апатия в 1917 году
Politicization and Depoliticization, Enthusiasm and Apathy in 1917

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is to study the relationship between the processes of politicization, radicalization, militarization, brutalization, on the one hand, and the growth of absenteeism, apathy, and disappointment in politics, on the other. It is shown that in order to assess the effectiveness of political mobilization, it is necessary to study not only the efforts of the main political actors fighting for power, but also inaction, political demobilization, apathy, and passivity. The authors analyze the language of description of these emotional states, publicly used by representatives of various forces for political purposes. Approaches to political history in this article are combined with the study of public consciousness of the revolutionary era. It is concluded that the most important factor that influenced the development of the crisis in the fall of 1917 was the political demobilization of groups that had previously enthusiastically perceived changes in political life. Such a change in the emotional regime led to the isolation of supporters of political compromise. The success of the Bolsheviks was determined not only by the effectiveness of their political mobilization, but also by the fragmentation of former supporters of the Provisional Government and the growth of political apathy among various segments of the population. Along with the processes of increasing absenteeism, depoliticization and apathy, some of the activists involved in political life after February remained involved in politics, but at the same time politics was increasingly affected by the brutalization and militarization of politics, which was largely determined by the politicization of the armed forces. The belief that the country could only be saved by decisively suppressing the enemy was characteristic of actors of various political views. The authors continue the tradition of studying political consciousness and political culture, begun by representatives of the Leningrad school of revolutionary history.

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