Moscow State Conference in the crosshairs of confrontation

The author focuses on the initiative minority, which, in fact, was mobilized during the days of the Moscow State Conference. The article notes the great contribution of A.B. Nikolaev in the study of this significant and often ignored political forum in historiography. Thanks to this monograph, it is possible to trace the motivation of key political forces, as well as their leaders. They all had to adapt to the conditions of revolutionary Russia in one way or another. However, in most cases these attempts were unsuccessful, as was clearly demonstrated in August 1917.