- 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
Russia and Revolution
Russia and Revolution
- Chapter:
- (p.71) Chapter 6 Russia and Revolution
- Source:
- The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia
- Author(s):
Robert Daniels
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
In pursuing their ultimate goal, revolutionaries believed that the end justifies their violent means. However, great revolutions do not often begin deliberately; they result from a confluence of circumstances. A revolution is a process rather than an event, one that develops over a period of years in characteristic phases: the overthrow of the Old Regime, the rise of the moderates, the breakdown of the old institutional fabric, the emotional mobilization and polarization of the population, and the conflict between left-wing extremists and right-wing counterrevolutionaries in their struggle for power. This chapter examines the factors that account for the triumph of revolutionary extremism and the success of the Bolsheviks in Russia. It looks at how the Bolsheviks assimilated the anticapitalist principle, the role of capitalism and anticapitalism in the Russian Revolution, and the Russian Communists' rejection of social revolution. It argues that the Russian Revolution was a struggle not only of cultures but also of classes.
Keywords: left-wing extremists, right-wing counterrevolutionaries, Bolsheviks, Russia, capitalism, anticapitalism, Russian Revolution, Communists, social revolution
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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
