Anniversary Collection of Research Articles in Honor of Professor Andrei Nikolaev

Abstract

The review analyzes the collection of papers dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Andrei B. Nikolaev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Russian History (19th – 21st Centuries) of Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. The articles in the collection highlight A. Nikolaev’s contribution to the study of the State Duma’s role in the February Revolution and in the construction of new authority. Scientific and organizational role of A. Nikolaev, primarily, in the Tauride Readings, an annual scientific conference on the history of Russian parliamentarism, is pointed out. The importance of the collection under review is emphasized from the point of view of historiography and source study. It has been shown that, on the one hand, the collection reflects the development of historiographical thought concerning the role of the State Duma in revolutionary events, one of the most important issues of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917. On the other hand, new materials on political history of Russia in the early 20th century are introduced into scientific circulation in a number of articles of the collection under review.

Keywords

• state duma
• february revolution
• parliamentarism
• andrei nikolaev
• historiography
• commissars of the provisional government