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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS of February and October 1917 have been a subject for century-long discussions. There exists a large diversity of studies that delve into domestic, regional and international impacts of the revolutions. This article sums up a paper delivered to an international scholarly conference on the significance of the Russian revolutions of 1917. This conference marking 100th anniversary of these revolutions was held in St. Petersburg on November 2-3, 2017. In this article, the present writer analyzes the role of the Russian revolutions in international diversification and argues that the year 1917 should be considered the starting point of the confrontation between world development models propounded by Russia and the United States.
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