| Titre | La mission d'Eugène Petit en Russie [Le parti socialiste français face à la révolution de Février] | |
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| Auteur | Ioannis Sinanoglou | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 17, no 2-3, avril-septembre 1976 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 133-170 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Ioannis Sinanoglou, The Eugène Petit mission, the French socialist party and the February Revolution.
Eugène Petit was an acute observer of the Russian crisis during 1916-1918 and, in the crucial summer of 1917, one of the most influential. Despite an obscure post in the French Munitions Mission in Petrograd, Petit's intimate knowledge of Russian liberal and socialist circles as well as his close ties with socialist minister Albert Thomas assured him ready access both to the Comité de Guerre and to the parliamentary leadership of the French socialist party. In June 1917, at the end of Thomas' second Russian mission, Petit became the liaison officer between the socialist minister of Armaments and the leaders of the Russian Provisional Government. Against the background of Petit's reports, the article explores official French assumptions about the evolution of Russia's wartime crisis before the Bolshevik uprising and the political repercussions in France of the issue raised by the February Revolution. An already divided SFIO attempted to mediate between republican France and revolutionary Russia, focusing its efforts on two questions brought to the fore by Russian socialists: the revision of wartime treaties among the Allies and the convening of an international socialist conference in Stockholm to formulate a socialist peace programme. Albert Thomas and Eugène Petit occupied pivotal positions in the socialist party's misguided effort to attenuate Russia's social and economic crises through political means. The immediate results in France were a deeper schism within the socialist party and the erosion of the party's political standing that accompanied the spectacular failure of its Russian policy. For the party had staked much of its political credit on the prospect of Russia's military revival under moderate socialist leadership. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1976_num_17_2_1261 |
