The Symbolic Revolution
![February Revolution, iconoclasm, Romanov eagles, symbols](/section5_TheFebruaryRevolution1917/images/the_burning_of_Romanov_symbols.png) 'Roasting eagles': the burning of Romanov symbols
EXTRACT FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 (Yale, 1999), p. 48.
In the absence of any obvious counter-revolution - without a real enemy to fight against - the destruction of the symbols of the old regime was, at least for the revolutionaries, the destruction of the old regime itself...
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