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The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture (Hardcover)
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The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture (Hardcover)
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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.
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