Word: bolshevik
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...late. I may not have time and creative imagination left for this 20-year work." Solzhenitsyn focuses on eleven days during the Czarist army's disastrous East Prussian campaign. He sees this period as the turning point of modern Russian history, leading to revolution and the birth of the Bolshevik regime. Although it occurs more than 100 pages before the panoramic novel's end, the excerpt that follows is the dramatic climax...
...week, he said, "Historically, it clearly was a mistake. It turned out that the White Army represented only a very special minority in Russia, such as the landed gentry." Kistiakowsky explained that "a great many young people like myself joined because they were influenced by the argument that the Bolshevik Party was selling Russia to the Germans." After two years in the White Army. Kistiakowsky said he "spent a year bumming in the Balkans." He had various odd jobs and in Belgrade, he got hired to replace broken windows and learned how to cut plate glass skillfully. (Years later, this...
...major world forces: capitalism represented chiefly by America especially after the second World War, and the communism of Bolshevism and Maoism. Horowitz stresses the nature of these ideologies and various misinterpretations and myths. Following the critique of his mentor, Isaac Deutscher, to whom he dedicates the book, Horowitz outlines Bolshevik theory, the interaction with the bostile West, and the ensuing revisions in Russian policy and goals...
...Russian Revolution, runs the argument, caused a direct and prefound reaction in the capitalist world. Though the Bolsheviks'inteniton was not so much to cut Russia off as a market but to incite European revolutions, Horowitz shows how England and America directly intervened to organize the counter-revolutionary White-Guard to lead the civil war. His discussion reopens a controversey closed by historians for many years. Recent interpretations have vastly underplayed the role of the Allied interference in the Russian Revolution, but Horowitz resurrects much of E. H. Carr's classic three-volume work (1953), The Bolshevik Revolution...
Inherent in the immensity of the task are organizational problems. The topical structure of the book necessitated much repetition of discussions such as Nazism and Bolshevik ideology. This often gives the analysis a vague and rambling quality...