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Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928: 233 (Russian and East European Studies) - Tapa blanda

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Igal Halfin

 
9780822959526: Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928: 233 (Russian and East European Studies)
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Editorial: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007

Sinopsis

Intimate Enemies is a brilliant study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure of power. Combining extensive research in recently opened Soviet archives with an insight rereading of intra-Party struggles, Igal Halfin uncovers this evolution in the language of Bolshevism. This language defined the methods for judging true party loyalty - in what Halfin describes as an examination of the 'hermeneutics of the soul,' and became the basis for prosecuting the Party's enemies, particularly the ""intimate enemies"" within the Party itself. Halfin argues that Bolshevism - which claimed sole access to truth and morality - ultimately demonized its enemies and became in effect a theology that facilitated a monumental power shift.

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Acerca del autor

Igal Halfin is professor of history at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness, and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia and editor of Terror in My Soul: Communist Autobiographies on Trial, and Language and Revolution: The Making of Modern Political Identities.

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Editorial
University of Pittsburgh Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0822959526
ISBN 13 
9780822959526
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Número de páginas
520
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