Max Weber and Peter Struve on the Russian Revolution

The author conducts a comparative analysis of the Russian Revolution developed by two prominent social-political thinkers of Germany and Russia in the early twentieth century-Max Weber and Peter Struve. The article focuses on their respective interpretations of the causes, course, and consequences of the Revolution as determined by their political ideals, i.e. a specific combination of nationalism and liberalism. The author pays special attention to Weber's and Struve's perception of the Russian Revolution, which, albeit for different reasons, was rejected by both thinkers.