Russkie Revolyutsii Glazami Evropeyskikh Sotsialistov

Revolyutsionnye sobytiya 1905-1907, 1917 gg. i posledovavshie sotsial'no-politicheskie transformatsii v Rossii (1918-1922 gg.) opredelennym obrazom povliyali na kontseptual'nye poiski evropeyskikh sotsialistov po ustanovleniyu adekvatnogo sootnosheniya mezhdu marksistskoy teoriey i neobkhodimost'yu ee adaptatsii k menyayushchimsya politicheskim realiyam. Vopreki rasprostranennomu mneniyu o liderakh evropeyskikh sotsialistov kak ob abstraktno myslivshikh teoretikakh, rassmatrivavshikh kapitalisticheskoe razvitie Rossii lish' v svyazi s perspektivoy mirovoy revolyutsii, avtor pytaetsya pokazat', chto vse oni otsenivali russkie revolyutsii kak radikal'nyy protsess demokratizatsii obshchestva. Prioritetnoe mesto v ikh predstavleniyakh o Rossii zanimala problema demokratii v strane s ustoychivoy traditsiey k avtoritarnomu myshleniyu. V nastoyashchey knige otrazhena politicheskaya pozitsiya germanskoy i avstriyskoy sotsial-demokratii v otnoshenii kharaktera, soderzhaniya i etapov politicheskogo protsessa v Rossii, vosprinimaemogo do nachala 1918 goda, to est' do nachala svorachivaniya demokraticheskikh protsessov, kak natsional'naya sostavlyayushchaya obshcheevropeyskogo osvoboditel'nogo dvizheniya.