Title "Truth behind bars" : reflections on the fate of the Russian Revolution / Paul Kellogg

Published Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Contents One Long Night, 1936-38 -- Striking Against the Gulag, 1947-53 -- The Vengeance of History, 1989-91 -- The Peasant-in-Uniform -- Urban Intellectuals and the Agrarian Question -- Poland and Georgia: the Export of Revolution -- Germany and Hungary: the United Front -- Trotsky on Stalinism: The Surplus and the Machine -- A Movement's Dirty Linen -- Lenin and Leninism: Moving Beyond Reverence -- Intellectuals and the Working Class Summary "Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, the arctic settlement of Vorkuta was the site of a notorious Gulag that held former Trotsky followers and members of the Left Opposition. This coal-mining town was a witness, first to the last stand of the Russian oppositional socialists, and second to a strike wave that sounded the death knell for the Stalinist forced labour system, overturned in 1991. Kellogg uses the backdrop of Vorkuta to argue for a return to the work of Iulii Martov--a contemporary of Lenin--and his analysis of a temporary class of peasants-in-uniform produced by the Great War. Coming from the trenches, Kellogg demonstrates that this class, led by Lenin and the Bolshevik Party, often relied on undemocratic and substitutionist policies to advance the revolutionary project. Ultimately, their actions thwarted the efforts made to establish an alternative to capitalism in the USSR and explain why democratic governance failed to become integrated into the Bolsheviks' theoretical perspectives and political practice."-- Provided by publisher Analysis History Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich Martov, L Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Martov, L., 1873-1923. Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924. SUBJECT Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924 fast Martov, L., 1873-1923 fast Subject Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp) -- History Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU -- History SUBJECT Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitelʹno-trudovykh lagereĭ OGPU fast Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp) fast Subject Forced labor -- Soviet Union Forced labor SUBJECT Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125808 Subject Soviet Union Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1771992468 9781771992473 1771992476 9781771992480 1771992484 9781771992466

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