George Katkov (November 17, 1903 – January 20, 1985) was a philosopher and historian, but the events of World War II caused him to abandon his plan to pursue a career of being a teacher in philosophy, but later become a lecturer in Soviet Institutions at Oxford University. Published in 1967, Katkov’s work titled Russia 1917: The February Revolution asserts that the Russian monarchy failed, not because of the common perspective of the Tsar being incompetent or the Russian civilian’s discontent of the monarchy, but due to thoroughly planned and complex conspiracies from enemies of the regime, both internally and externally. He devotes the majority of his writings to an analysis of a variety of plots in which he believes caused the February Revolution
