Jay Bergman, “The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture”

Because they were Marxists, the Bolsheviks in Russia, both before and after taking power in 1917, believed that the past was prologue: that embedded in history was a Holy Grail, a series of mysterious, but nonetheless accessible and comprehensible, universal laws that explained the course of history from beginning to end. Read more
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