Radical Ideology In The Russian Revolution
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Author | : Anton Petrov |
Publisher | : Anton Petrov |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2020-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Whenever huge events like wars and revolutions occur it often seems, in retrospect, that the preceding events have been inevitably leading to the final result and no possible others. This is generally not the case, however, and it certainly is not the case in Russia during the Revolutions of 1917. The events preceding this certainly helped the outcome, but they did not prescribe it, preventing another outcome. End results are often just the final product of a series of unrelated, oft-times contradictory, events. It is only in retrospect that the preceding events fall together and then only with the help of twenty-twenty hindsight and omission.
Author | : Thomas Telios |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2019-06-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 303014237X |
This volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts. Part I consists of a palimpsest of the different representations that the Russian Revolution underwent through its turbulent history, going back to its actors, agents, theorists and propagandists to consider whether it is at all possible to revisit the Russian Revolution as an event. With this problematic as a backbone, the chapters of this section scrutinize the ambivalences of revolution in four distinctive phenomena (sexual morality, religion, law and forms of life) that pertain to the revolution’s historicity. Part II concentrates on how the revolution was retold in the aftermath of its accomplishment not only by its sympathizers but also its opponents. These chapters not only bring to light the ways in which the revolution triggered critical theorists to pave new paths of radical thinking that were conceived as methods to overcome the revolution’s failures and impasses, but also how the Revolution was subverted in order to inspire reactionary politics and legitimize conservative theoretical undertakings. Even commemorating the Russian Revolution, then, still poses a threat to every well-established political order. In Part III, this volume interprets how the Russian Revolution can spur a rethinking of the idea of revolution. Acknowledging the suffocating burden that the notion of revolution as such entails, the final chapters of this book ultimately address the content and form of future revolution(s). It is therein, in such critical political thought and such radical form of action, where the Russian Revolution’s legacy ought to be sought and can still be found.
Author | : Richard Gombin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415568080 |
Originally published in 1978, Richard Gombin’s book traces the recurrent attitudes in the history of the European revolutionary movement which have criticized socialist and communist parties for their authoritarian and bureaucratic tendencies, and which have stressed spontaneity and decentralization as the correct basis from which to change society. From a critique of Marx, through to an examination of Soviet practice under Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin as a factor in the disillusionment of the left with the methods of the Russian Revolution, Gombin’s study examines the concepts of ‘workers’ councils’ as they emerged in several countries after the First World War. This comparative study develops the idea of a ‘council communism’ as opposed to a ‘party communism’ which, he suggests, is the fundamental concept in the criticism of orthodox Communism from the left.
Author | : Stephen J. Lee |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780415287180 |
Examining the background to and the course of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Lenin's regime, Lee explores both the key aspects and the historical interpretations of Lenin's legacy to Russian history.
Author | : Tatiana Linkhoeva |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501748106 |
Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva demonstrates how contemporary discussions of the Russian Revolution, its containment, and the issue of imperialism played a fundamental role in shaping Japan's imperial society and state. In this bold approach, Linkhoeva explores attitudes toward the Soviet Union and the communist movement among the Japanese military and politicians, as well as interwar leftist and rightist intellectuals and activists. Her book draws on extensive research in both published and archival documents, including memoirs, newspaper and journal articles, political pamphlets, and Comintern archives. Revolution Goes East presents us with a compelling argument that the interwar Japanese Left replicated the Orientalist outlook of Marxism-Leninism in its relationship with the rest of Asia, and that this proved to be its undoing. Furthermore, Linkhoeva shows that Japanese imperial anticommunism was based on geopolitical interests for the stability of the empire rather than on fear of communist ideology. Thanks to generous funding from New York University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author | : Susan K. Morrissey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : College students |
ISBN | : 0195115449 |
Reading Russian revolutionary culture through its stories, the author of this text explores how the quest for consciousness evolved into student radicalism. The study examines the dynamics of political and cultural change in late-Imperial Russia, questioning the founding myths of the Soviet Union.
Author | : Avrahm Yarmolinsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
A chronicle of the theorists and terrorists who laid the 100 years' groundwork for the Russian Revolution.
Author | : Ronald Suny |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1784785679 |
Reconsidering the Russian Revolution a century later Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after the October Uprising, Ronald Grigor Suny—one of the world’s leading historians of the period—explores how scholars and political scientists have tried to understand this historic upheaval, the civil war that followed, and the extraordinary intrusion of ordinary people onto the world stage. Suny provides an assessment of the choices made in the revolutionary years by Soviet leaders—the achievements, costs, and losses that continue to weigh on us today. A quarter century after the disintegration of the USSR, the revolution is usually told as a story of failure. However, Suny reevaluates its radical democratic ambitions, its missed opportunities, victories, and the colossal agonies of trying to build a kind of “socialism” in the inhospitable, isolated environment of peasant Russia. He ponders what lessons 1917 provides for Marxists and anyone looking for alternatives to capitalism and bourgeois democracy.
Author | : Charles H. George |
Publisher | : Charles Kerr |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An exciting history that chronicles - through the words of the participants themselves - the European radical tradition, via its major revolutions, and near-revolutions - in Bohemia, Germany, the Netherlands, England, France, and Russia. George's narrative is woven around a collection of texts - from the Hussites of 1420, John Lilburne, Gerrard Winstanley, the New Model Army, Levellers, Ranters, Jacobins, the Committee Of Public Safety, the Conspiracy Of Equals, Communards, Bolsheviks, Robespierre, Rosa Luxemburg and more. Here is the story of our out-of-step ancestors - a story of the triumphs and defeats, hopes and dspairs of 500 years of Revolution. "Ranging over half the millennium - from the prophetic insurrections of 14th century Bohemia to the Bolshevik Revolution - George provides the best and broadest available introduction to the tradition of European radicalism. The reprinted selections from 50 central texts of revolutionary history are situated and enlivened by the lively narrative and close analysis which surrounds them. An essential work for students - in and out of the classroom - of revolt, of Marxism, and of liberation." [David Roediger]
Author | : Daniel Chirot |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691199906 |
Why most modern revolutions have ended in bloodshed and failure—and what lessons they hold for today's world of growing extremism Why have so many of the iconic revolutions of modern times ended in bloody tragedies? And what lessons can be drawn from these failures today, in a world where political extremism is on the rise and rational reform based on moderation and compromise often seems impossible to achieve? In You Say You Want a Revolution?, Daniel Chirot examines a wide range of right- and left-wing revolutions around the world—from the late eighteenth century to today—to provide important new answers to these critical questions. From the French Revolution of the eighteenth century to the Mexican, Russian, German, Chinese, anticolonial, and Iranian revolutions of the twentieth, Chirot finds that moderate solutions to serious social, economic, and political problems were overwhelmed by radical ideologies that promised simpler, drastic remedies. But not all revolutions had this outcome. The American Revolution didn't, although its failure to resolve the problem of slavery eventually led to the Civil War, and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was relatively peaceful, except in Yugoslavia. From Japan, North Korea, Vietnam, and Cambodia to Algeria, Angola, Haiti, and Romania, You Say You Want a Revolution? explains why violent radicalism, corruption, and the betrayal of ideals won in so many crucial cases, why it didn't in some others—and what the long-term prospects for major social change are if liberals can't deliver needed reforms. A powerful account of the unintended consequences of revolutionary change, You Say You Want a Revolution? is filled with critically important lessons for today's liberal democracies struggling with new forms of extremism.