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Piero Melograni. Lenin and the Myth of World Revolution: Ideology and Reasons of State, 1917-1920. Translated by Julie Lerro. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1989. xiv, 161 pp. $39.95.

Piero Melograni. Lenin and the Myth of World Revolution: Ideology and Reasons of State,... Piero Melograni. Lenin a n d the Myth o f World Revolution: Ideology a n d Reasons o f State, 1917-1920. Translated by Julie Lerro. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humani- ties Press International, 1989. xiv, 161 pp. $39.95. Had Piero Melograni b e e n around in 1918 to dísse τ riinate his views among the Bolsl�eviks, Lenin surely w o u l d have b r a n d e d him with the same criticism he made o f Bukharin: " U p to l�is neck in ' L e f t Stupidness'." (p. 21) For there is am- p1e evíde п ce throughout this slender v o l u m e to suggest that Melograni, like the left C o m m u n i s t s o f 1918, w o u l d have preferred to see the Bolsheviks pe � sh in a pure blaxe o f revolutionary glory than seek a means o f peaceful coexistence with the capitalist West. M e l o g ε a n í ' s thesis is simply and forcefully prese л ted. He argues that the Bol- shevik state, from its very inception, gave http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Piero Melograni. Lenin and the Myth of World Revolution: Ideology and Reasons of State, 1917-1920. Translated by Julie Lerro. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1989. xiv, 161 pp. $39.95.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 29 (1-2): 188 – Jan 1, 1995

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Brill
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© 1995 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
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10.1163/221023995X00160
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Piero Melograni. Lenin a n d the Myth o f World Revolution: Ideology a n d Reasons o f State, 1917-1920. Translated by Julie Lerro. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humani- ties Press International, 1989. xiv, 161 pp. $39.95. Had Piero Melograni b e e n around in 1918 to dísse τ riinate his views among the Bolsl�eviks, Lenin surely w o u l d have b r a n d e d him with the same criticism he made o f Bukharin: " U p to l�is neck in ' L e f t Stupidness'." (p. 21) For there is am- p1e evíde п ce throughout this slender v o l u m e to suggest that Melograni, like the left C o m m u n i s t s o f 1918, w o u l d have preferred to see the Bolsheviks pe � sh in a pure blaxe o f revolutionary glory than seek a means o f peaceful coexistence with the capitalist West. M e l o g ε a n í ' s thesis is simply and forcefully prese л ted. He argues that the Bol- shevik state, from its very inception, gave

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