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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1990 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0094-288X
- eISSN
- 1876-3316
- DOI
- 10.1163/187633190X00165
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Abstract
n o t determine the g r o w t h o f bureaucracy but the very structure o f Bolshevik political power. T h e Red T e r r o r was n o t only wrong, it was counter-productive, according to Farber, only stimulating greater opposition to the Bolsheviks. The absence o f an oper- ational d e m o c r a t i c c o d e within the Leninist party m e a n t that it was susceptible to a m o r e p r o f o u n d authoritarianism than any hitherto encountered. Thus, Farber insists, while objective factors p l a y e d their part, the political nature o f Bolshevism interacted with circumstances in a catastrophic way for the development of socialism. Lenin h i m s e l f c o m e s o u t o f all this with a very diminished stature. W e a r e by n o w all familiar with his exaltation o f violence and terror and his inability to deal with substantive criticism in any rational way, but Farber focuses o n
Journal
Russian History – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1990