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Kronstadt 1917-1921: The Fate of a Soviet Democracy

By Israel Getzler

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1983
ISBN
9780521244794, 9780511562884, 0521894425, 052124479X, 0511562888, 9780521894425
LCC
DK265.8.K7 G47 1983
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2270755 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
Pages
308\308
Topic
History
DPI
300
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is the first major study of revolutionary Kronstadt to span the period from February 1917 to the uprising of March 1921. It focuses attention on Kronstadt's forgotten golden age, between March 1917 and July 1918, when Soviet power and democracy flourished there. Professor Getzler argues that the Kronstadters' 'Third Revolution' of March 1921 was a desperate attempt at a restoration of that Soviet democracy which they believed had been taken from them by Bolshevik 'commissarocracy'. Pointing to continuity in personnel, ideology and institutions linking the 1917-18 Kronstadt experiment in Soviet democracy with the March 1921 uprising, the author sees that continuity reflected in the Kronstadt tragedy's central figure, the long-haired, dreamy-eyed student Anatolii Lamanov. Chairman of the Kronstadt Soviet in 1917 and chief editor of its Izvestiia, Lamanov became the ideologist of the 1921 uprising and was soon after executed as a 'counter-revolutionary'.

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