- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction: Revolution, Modernization, Socialism—Baselines of Modern Russian History
-
Chapter 1 Marx and the Movement of History -
Chapter 2 Fate and Will in the Marxian Vision -
Chapter 3 Lenin as a Russian Revolutionary -
Chapter 4 The Bolsheviks and the Intelligentsia -
Chapter 5 Lenin's Vision -
Chapter 6 Russia and Revolution -
Chapter 7 Revolution from the Inside -
Chapter 8 The Bolshevik Gamble -
Chapter 9 Left Communism in the Revolutionary Era -
Chapter 10 Russian Revolutionary Extremism -
Chapter 11 The Militarization of Socialism in Russia -
Chapter 12 Bureaucratic Advance and Social Lag in the Revolution -
Chapter 13 Socialist Alternatives in the Crisis of 1921 -
Chapter 14 The Left Opposition and the Evolution of the Communist Regime -
Chapter 15 Trotsky on Democracy and Bureaucracy -
Chapter 16 The Left Opposition as an Alternative to Stalinism -
Chapter 17 Foundations of Stalinism -
Chapter 18 Stalinism as Postrevolutionary Dictatorship -
Chapter 19 From Distributive Socialism to Production Socialism -
Chapter 20 Stalin's Cultural Counterrevolution -
Chapter 21 Stalinism and Russian Political Culture -
Chapter 22 Stalinist Ideology as False Consciousness -
Chapter 23 Was Stalin Really a Communist? -
Chapter 24 Khrushchev and the Party Apparatus -
Chapter 25 Khrushchev and the Intelligentsia -
Chapter 26 The Fall of Khrushchev and the Advent of Participatory Bureaucracy -
Chapter 27 The Central Committee as a Bureaucratic Elite -
Chapter 28 The Generational Revolution -
Chapter 29 Reform and the Intelligentsia -
Chapter 30 Gorbachev's Opportunity -
Chapter 31 Gorbachev and the Reversal of History -
Chapter 32 Soviet Federalism and the Breakup of the USSR -
Chapter 33 The Revolutionary Process and the Moderate Revolutionary Revival -
Chapter 34 The Communist Oppositions and Post-Stalinist Reform -
Chapter 35 Past and Present -
Chapter 36 The Grand Surprise and Soviet Studies - Index
Russian Revolutionary Extremism
Russian Revolutionary Extremism
- Chapter:
- (p.117) Chapter 10 Russian Revolutionary Extremism
- Source:
- The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia
- Author(s):
Robert Daniels
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
Every great revolution tends to give rise to dictatorship, especially after undergoing an extremist phase. In the twentieth century, postrevolutionary dictatorship may be associated with totalitarianism. In the case of Russia, this problem can shed light on the connection between 1917 and 1928, the failure of the thermidorean New Economic Policy, and how the Russian Revolution paved the way for Stalinism. This chapter examines revolutionary extremism in Russia and how it contributed to the unprecedented rigors of the postrevolutionary dictatorship in the country. It traces extremism to the tradition of Russian Jacobinism and looks at the role of Vladimir Lenin in the emergence of revolutionary extremism. It also discusses how the civil war of 1918 made Soviet Communism more Leninist than Lenin. It argues that Russian revolutionary extremism embraced cultural war to create a new, “proletarian” style of life and thought that would supplant the “bourgeois” heritage.
Keywords: revolution, dictatorship, totalitarianism, Russia, Russian Revolution, Stalinism, revolutionary extremism, Vladimir Lenin, civil war, Communism
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction: Revolution, Modernization, Socialism—Baselines of Modern Russian History
-
Chapter 1 Marx and the Movement of History -
Chapter 2 Fate and Will in the Marxian Vision -
Chapter 3 Lenin as a Russian Revolutionary -
Chapter 4 The Bolsheviks and the Intelligentsia -
Chapter 5 Lenin's Vision -
Chapter 6 Russia and Revolution -
Chapter 7 Revolution from the Inside -
Chapter 8 The Bolshevik Gamble -
Chapter 9 Left Communism in the Revolutionary Era -
Chapter 10 Russian Revolutionary Extremism -
Chapter 11 The Militarization of Socialism in Russia -
Chapter 12 Bureaucratic Advance and Social Lag in the Revolution -
Chapter 13 Socialist Alternatives in the Crisis of 1921 -
Chapter 14 The Left Opposition and the Evolution of the Communist Regime -
Chapter 15 Trotsky on Democracy and Bureaucracy -
Chapter 16 The Left Opposition as an Alternative to Stalinism -
Chapter 17 Foundations of Stalinism -
Chapter 18 Stalinism as Postrevolutionary Dictatorship -
Chapter 19 From Distributive Socialism to Production Socialism -
Chapter 20 Stalin's Cultural Counterrevolution -
Chapter 21 Stalinism and Russian Political Culture -
Chapter 22 Stalinist Ideology as False Consciousness -
Chapter 23 Was Stalin Really a Communist? -
Chapter 24 Khrushchev and the Party Apparatus -
Chapter 25 Khrushchev and the Intelligentsia -
Chapter 26 The Fall of Khrushchev and the Advent of Participatory Bureaucracy -
Chapter 27 The Central Committee as a Bureaucratic Elite -
Chapter 28 The Generational Revolution -
Chapter 29 Reform and the Intelligentsia -
Chapter 30 Gorbachev's Opportunity -
Chapter 31 Gorbachev and the Reversal of History -
Chapter 32 Soviet Federalism and the Breakup of the USSR -
Chapter 33 The Revolutionary Process and the Moderate Revolutionary Revival -
Chapter 34 The Communist Oppositions and Post-Stalinist Reform -
Chapter 35 Past and Present -
Chapter 36 The Grand Surprise and Soviet Studies - Index
