Bolshevik Aims and Bolshevik Ideals
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 9, Heft 34, S. 261-292
ISSN: 1474-029X
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In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 9, Heft 34, S. 261-292
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: Government & opposition: an international journal of comparative politics, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 496-504
ISSN: 1477-7053
In: Neue politische Literatur: Berichte aus Geschichts- und Politikwissenschaft ; (NPL), Band 45, Heft 2, S. 265
ISSN: 0028-3320
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 250-252
ISSN: 0036-8237
This project used two socialist magazines to analyze the relationship between radical politics and the historical moment. Political radicals worked outside of the mainstream and aimed to influence the creation of a dramatically different future. The question then was how did a group of radicals like those that worked on The Masses and the Liberator deal with the open contingency of history, that their imagined future may never come or could appear in a different form than they imagined, and how did they communicate that vision of the future in an intelligible way. Based on the magazines, I argued that radicals looked to models in the present that invoked characteristics in line with their idea of the future. At one point during The Masses that model was the bohemian artist who was free from restrictive bourgeois values and thus able to realistically represent life under capitalism. During the Liberator that model was the Bolshevik revolutionary who based pragmatic political decisions on objective facts to engineer social revolutions. In both cases, those models broke down as new events and changing political environments presented alternative models better suited for the current moment.
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In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Band 63, Heft 3, S. 443-445
ISSN: 0030-4387
In: Diplomatic history, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 498-499
ISSN: 1467-7709
In: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia, S. 93-104