Webinar of the Presidential Library reviews the events of October 1917

The Presidential Library continues a series of webinars prepared for the occasion of the centenary anniversary of the October Revolution. The listeners will be introduced to the numerous materials from the library electronic stock, which reveal the issue of the turning point for the country year.

The cycle of online seminars focused on “October 1917: a look through the century” was opened on October 17, 2017. The first webinar was dedicated to the events that began in Petrograd with the July uprisings and prepared the events of October 1917. More than 500 people from 31 regions of the Russian Federation and foreign countries took part in the online seminar in the remote access mode.

On October 24, 2017, at 10 am MSK there will be the cycle’s second part named “The takeover.” A choice of the date of the event is not accidental — it coincides with the day from which the events that have become the theme of this webinar will begin their count. In the second part the story will be straight about the course of the revolution itself, its main participants, historical consequences and the reaction of political forces from the outside of the world.

Apart from in Moscow and in Petrograd, book sources from the electronic stock of the Presidential Library will illustrate the course of the revolutionary struggle and a history of the upheaval in the regions. The archival cases among which are the orders and requests of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee for the Baltic Fleet, as well as Moscow reports from the archival fund of the Military Revolutionary Committee, and some other historical documents will be of special interest.

Considerable attention will be paid to the direct participants of the revolution — as to those, who with all their strength has contributed into the maximum fast implementation of new political ideas, as well as to the ordinary people who joined the revolutionary movement. For example, participants of the webinar will be able to look at the yellowed because of the time copybooks’ pages with the notes of pensioner Petr Antonovich Lapaev, which he wrote on the 40th anniversary of October revolution.

A special emphasis will be placed on materials describing the solemn celebrations of the anniversaries of the revolution, beginning from 1918. The participants of the event will get a chance to clearly see how the artistic sketches for decorations of the streets and the buildings of Petrograd on the first anniversary of the October Revolution, created by the famous Russian artists — K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, B. M. Kustodiev and many others, were triumphant and snappy, in accordance with the spirit of the time, done.

“October 1917: a look through the century” became a logical continuation of the first this year in a series of online seminars of the Presidential Library thematic webinar “On the occasion of the centenary anniversary of the February Revolution of 1917,” at which various sources related to the overthrow of the tsarist regime and the breakthrough in political course of the country, — the archival documents (telegrams, letters from members of the Provisional Government), historical essays, memories of participants (P. N. Milyukov, M. V. Rodzyanko), documentary photographs.

A release of the materials of the Presidential Library fund is one of the key priorities of the institution. A practice of conducting the outreach, awareness raising and methodical webinars was introduced in 2015. These events help to navigate in the materials of the Presidential Library electronic stock, which currently contains more than 550 thousand entries. To date, there are some online seminars for new partners, focused on introduction them to the resource, as well as professional lectures for specialists of already operating remote access centers.

The announcements of upcoming webinars and information about previous events are contained in the Remote access centers section of the Presidential Library website. To participate in online seminars is possible via video conferencing system or WebEx, or to watch privet viewable online broadcast. To do this, please fill out the application form in the section and submit it over email at biblograf@prlib.ru. You may also request using specified address the materials of the events that have already taken place.