There has been much written about the official commemorations of 1917 in Soviet Russia, but after 1991 the revolution became a contentious event and it is unclear how the state will commemorate the centenary. It is too big to ignore, but potentially dangerous politically. After the ‘colour revolutions’ and the Arab Spring, revolution has been associated with instability, violence and terror, and is used to justify increasingly authoritarian and interventionist domestic and foreign policies. This article examines Putin's speeches and the state's actions to suggest that the state may try to recast 1917 as a celebration of former imperial and Soviet power rather than as a short-lived democratic revolution.

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激发“第四次革命”？俄罗斯现代革命传统及围绕2017年纪念1917年的问题

关于 1917 年苏俄官方纪念活动的报道很多，但 1991 年之后革命成为一个有争议的事件，国家将如何纪念这一百年尚不清楚。它太大而无法忽视，但在政治上却具有潜在危险。在“颜色革命”和阿拉伯之春之后，革命与不稳定、暴力和恐怖联系在一起，并被用来为日益专制和干涉主义的国内外政策辩护。本文考察了普京的演讲和国家的行动，以表明国家可能试图将 1917 年重新塑造为对前帝国和苏维埃政权的庆祝，而不是一场短暂的民主革命。