IMR continues its series of articles by Alexander Yanov on the history of Russian nationalism. This essay begins a new cycle of the series: the history of the Russian idea in the Soviet Union. The author discusses what happened with the Russian idea in the first decade after the Russian Revolution, both in Russia and abroad. It was assumed that the Bolshevik-internationalists’ crushing victory in the Russian Civil War would kill the Russian idea. But it didn’t. No sooner had newly elected Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin realized that world revolution, in the vein of 1848, would not occur, and the isolationist, Stalinist interpretation of Russia’s future won out amid Russia’s intraparty strife, than there were few who doubted that the Russian idea was destined to determine the fate of post-revolutionary Russia.
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 15:30:50 +0000
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