The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (Routledge Sources in History)
Richard Sakwa
Language: English
Pages: 544
ISBN: 0415122902
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Through sources and documents, The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union by Richard Sakwa places the Soviet experience in historical and comparative context. The author introduces each source in this volume fully and provides commentary and analysis.
Using eye-witness accounts, official documents and new materials which have just come to light, Richard Sakwa gives an historical overview of the Soviet Union from the revolution of 1906 to the fall of the regime.
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Entire development of capitalism. Source: Lenin, ‘Sotsialistickeskaya revolyutsiya i pravo natsii na samoopredelenie (tezisy)’, PSS,, vol. 27, pp. 255–6; and ‘Zametka k tezisam’, PSS, vol 27, p. 457. Self-determination for Lenin did not mean federalism, and it would only be after coming to power in 1917 that the Bolsheviks were forced to accept the principle. For Lenin socialism meant the creation of larger units and not the fragmentation of the world into small states. The Austrian Social.
Say the least, and aroused a storm of protest and a government reshuffle. The Provisional Government considered the February revolution a protest against the inept conduct of the war by the tsarist regime and not directed against the war itself. Milyukov’s note led to the fall of the government and the creation of the first coalition government, still under Lvov, which lasted from May to July. The new government included liberals and socialists, with the SR Alexander Kerensky as minister of war.
Much in common with Petrograd. The workers are similarly impoverished and similarly lack class organisations that would defend their interests. Constant lack of food is becoming genuine famine, the Soviets have become isolated from the workers and have become the mouth-pieces of the anti-worker and anti-revolutionary policies of the Council of People’s Commissars and only take into account the will and orders of the government bosses and least of all the wishes and aspirations of the workers down.
And that is to make our people so ‘enlightened’ that they understand all the advantages of everybody participating in the work of the co-operatives, and organise this participation. Only that. There are now no other devices needed to advance to socialism. But to achieve this ‘only’, there must be a veritable revolution—the entire people must go through a period of cultural development. Therefore, our rule must be: as little philosophising and as few acrobatics as possible. In this respect NEP is.
Itself than can the party apparatus. Democracy and centralism are two faces of party organisation. The question is to harmonise them in the most correct manner, that is, the manner best corresponding to the situation. During the last period there was no such equilibrium. The centre of gravity wrongly centred in the apparatus. The initiative of the party was reduced to the minimum. Thence, the habits and the procedures of leadership, fundamentally contradicting the spirit of revolutionary.