...This chapter shows that Joseph Stalin's reign of violence in the 1930s was born out of a culture of war and was itself a civil war being fought with different means. It first considers the preconditions that led to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise to power of the Bolsheviks, who...

... championed by the revolutionaries of Russia who came before him. Despite the Bolsheviks' Marxist language, the Russian Revolution was shaped by Russian beliefs, the result of which was intrinsically Russian—namely, that it was Lenin's revolution rather than Karl Marx's. The chapter also discusses...

..., 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...

...The peculiar nature of the Russian Revolution enabled Russia to rise out of precapitalist, traditional ways and embrace bureaucracy for its political and economic institutions. This managerial-bureaucratic transformation has proved to be more difficult to conceptualize by the Marxists than the non...

...Leon Trotsky was a fierce enemy of Leninism prior to the Russian Revolution, but also its most ardent exponent in the revolution and in the civil war. His political outlook changed dramatically during the succession struggle that erupted in 1923. Trapped between the rigidity of his theoretical...

... of the most important historical events of the period, including the Russian Revolution of 1917. Chukovsky also writes about the literary ferment that began in the late 1950s and persisted into the early 1960s, and how he listened closely and avidly to the new voices in Russian literature. In addition, he...

... from Peter the Great's reign to the Russian Revolution of 1917. It also examines how Russians looked at the East through orientology and culture. China Persia Golden Horde Mongolia Peter I Emperor Slavophiles Blok Aleksandr Dostoyevsky Fyodor Karamzin Nikolai Said Edward Scythians Skobelev...

...The West has been accused of seeing the East in a hostile and deprecatory light, as the legacy of nineteenth-century European imperialism. This book examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Russian Revolution of 1917. Exploring the writings, poetry, and art of representative...

...-intelligentsia and their association with the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin, their link to Communism and the Russian Revolution, and the emergence of Joseph Stalin as leader of the quasi-intelligentsia. Intelligentsia under Brezhnev Constitutional Democrats Herzen Alexander Narodnaya Volya The People's...

.... 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...

...This chapter explores how Hebrew writers coped with Israel's establishment through an analysis of Haim Hazaz, one of the most celebrated writers of Modern Hebrew, who, born in Eastern Europe in 1898, experienced pogroms and the Russian Revolution and spent eight years in Paris before moving...

... by the dynamics of the stage-by-stage process, while its basic content was determined by the challenge of modernization. The global process of modernization raises questions about the Russian Revolution and its ultimate social dimension, while the verbal ideology of Stalinism creates pervasive and enduring...

... of the process of revolution in the context of the Russian Revolution of 1917. It discusses Marxism in Russia and its flawed notion of revolution, Karl Marx's theory of revolution, the connection between revolution and capitalism, Trotsky's “theory of permanent revolution” or “uninterrupted revolution...

...The so-called insurrection in October and November 1917 catapulted the Bolsheviks to power in Russia. The Russian Revolution, which began with the fall of the tsar in February 1917, led to a political crisis. Power was initially divided between the Provisional Government and the soviets...

...“Left Communism” was a faction within the Communist Party in Russia. Adopting the principles of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Left Communism had a dogmatic commitment to Marxism and an idealistic belief in the struggle for the perfect society. Opposition outside the party was suppressed gradually...

... and a portion of the dominant class. Marxists made an effort to work out the implications of false consciousness only after the Russian Revolution. Brezhnev Leonid death of Gorbachev Mikhail accession to power Marxism Populists Revolutionary movement Russian Stalin Joseph and Bukharin Stalinism...