Bergman Jay (Professor Of History Professor Of History Central Connecticut State University)
Bergman Jay (Professor Of History Professor Of History Central Connecticut State University) - The French Revolutionary Tradition In Russian And Soviet Politics Political Thought And Culture - Hardcover
Bergman Jay (Professor Of History Professor Of History Central Connecticut State University) - The French Revolutionary Tradition In Russian And Soviet Politics Political Thought And Culture - Hardcover
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Description: Because they were Marxists the Bolsheviks in Russia both before and after taking power in 1917, believed that the past was prologue: that embedded in history was a Holy Grail a series of mysterious but nonetheless accessible and comprehensible universal laws that explained the course of history from beginning to end. Those who understood these laws would be able to mould the future to conform to their own expectations. But what should the Bolsheviks do if their Marxist ideology proved to be either erroneous or insufficient - if it could not explain or explain fully the course of events that followed the revolution they carried out in the country they called the Soviet Union? Something else would have to perform this function. The underlying argument of this volume is that the Bolsheviks saw the revolutions in France in 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871 as supplying practically everything Marxism lacked. In fact these four events comprised what for the Bolsheviks was a genuine Revolutionary Tradition. The English Revolution and the Puritan Commonwealth of the seventeenth century were not without utility - the Bolsheviks cited them and occasionally utilized them as propaganda - but these paled in comparison to what the revolutions in France offered a century later namely legitimacy inspiration guidance in constructing socialism and communism and not least useful fodder for political and personal polemics.
Title: The French Revolutionary Tradition In Russian And Soviet Politics Political Thought And Culture
Author(s): Bergman Jay (Professor Of History Professor Of History Central Connecticut State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198842705
Pages: 568 Pages
Publication Date: 10/8/2019
Category: Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions
Description: Because they were Marxists the Bolsheviks in Russia both before and after taking power in 1917, believed that the past was prologue: that embedded in history was a Holy Grail a series of mysterious but nonetheless accessible and comprehensible universal laws that explained the course of history from beginning to end. Those who understood these laws would be able to mould the future to conform to their own expectations. But what should the Bolsheviks do if their Marxist ideology proved to be either erroneous or insufficient - if it could not explain or explain fully the course of events that followed the revolution they carried out in the country they called the Soviet Union? Something else would have to perform this function. The underlying argument of this volume is that the Bolsheviks saw the revolutions in France in 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871 as supplying practically everything Marxism lacked. In fact these four events comprised what for the Bolsheviks was a genuine Revolutionary Tradition. The English Revolution and the Puritan Commonwealth of the seventeenth century were not without utility - the Bolsheviks cited them and occasionally utilized them as propaganda - but these paled in comparison to what the revolutions in France offered a century later namely legitimacy inspiration guidance in constructing socialism and communism and not least useful fodder for political and personal polemics.
Title: The French Revolutionary Tradition In Russian And Soviet Politics Political Thought And Culture
Author(s): Bergman Jay (Professor Of History Professor Of History Central Connecticut State University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198842705
Pages: 568 Pages
Publication Date: 10/8/2019
Category: Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions
