Lenin's Terror : the Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence / James Ryan.
This book explores the development of Lenin's thinking on violence throughout his career, from the last years of the Tsarist regime in Russia through to the 1920s and the New Economic Policy, and provides an important assessment of the significance of ideological factors for understanding Sovie...
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on style; Introduction: ideology and violence; 1 'Revolution is war': the genesis of a militant Marxism, 1894-1907; 2 'Violence to end all violence': ideological purity and the Great War, 1907-1917; 3 'History will not forgive us if we do not seize power now': the revolutionary imperative, 1917; 4 Confronting the 'wolves in the forest': October 1917-summer 1918; 5 The Red Terror; 6 Civil War: the strengthening of dictatorship, 1919; 7 War and peace: from Civil War to NEP, 1919-1921.
- 8 'We will cleanse Russia for a long time': the contradictions of NEPConclusion: Lenin's terror; Notes; Bibliography; Index.