“The case of detecting the proclamation, interpreting about the need to stop the war”: anti-war revolutionary activity in Omsk in 1914–1917
https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-26-34
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Abstract
This publication considers the activities of revolutionaries in Omsk in 1914–1917, which are opponents of the First World War. Despite the extensive number of works in the Soviet and post-Soviet historiography about the Siberian Bolsheviks in the pre-revolutionary years, there is no separate study that completely affects the anti-war activity of the opposition forces. This problem is considered mainly fragmented. The basis for developing, built according to the theoretical formula, combining the anthropological approach and the historical and system method, was the materials of the paperwork of the gendarmerie, identified in the funds of the historical archive of the Omsk region, published and unheated memoirs of members of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. The author concludes that despite various difficulties, opposition from the gendarmerie, Omsk revolutionaries devoted a lot of places in their activities of anti-war agitation, although its scale should not be exaggerated.
About the Author
M. M. Stelmak
Historical Archive of the Omsk Region
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
STELMAK Maksim Maksimovich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Lead Archivist, Center for the Study of the History
Omsk, Irtyshskaya Embankment St., 9, 644024
AuthorID (RSCI): 772229
ResearcherID: R-7418-2018
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Stelmak M.M. “The case of detecting the proclamation, interpreting about the need to stop the war”: anti-war revolutionary activity in Omsk in 1914–1917. Omsk Scientific Bulletin. Series Society. History. Modernity. 2025;10(4):26-34. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-26-34. EDN: MFXLBP
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