Culture of Violence and Communism: Causes and Forms in the Soviet Union
In: Osteuropa, Band 63, Heft 5-6
Abstract
In the Bolshevik Revolution, violence played a major role. The reasons for this lie in the ideology of communism, first and foremost in the movement's concrete pre-history and social background. For the communist pioneers, violence was an inevitable attendant circumstance of historical upheavals; Lenin raised it to a Manichean friend-or-foe scheme. The Bolshevik party absorbed the existing potential for violence within society; in the Civil War, this hardened into its own culture of violence, which the NKVD in particular embodied. Overcoming this culture of violence was a major achievement of de-Stalinization. Adapted from the source document.
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Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin Germany
ISSN: 0030-6428
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