Revolutionary Defencism as a cul-de-sac? Socialist Parties and the Question of War and Peace in the Russian Revolution of 1917/18
Based on a wide array of sources–archival repositories, recollections, and autobiographies, as well as newspapers, journals, and the minutes of both Soviet and party congresses—the article shows to what extent the question of war and peace separated the socialist camp in at least two warring faction...
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2019
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| Online pristup: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sažetak: | Based on a wide array of sources–archival repositories, recollections, and autobiographies, as well as newspapers, journals, and the minutes of both Soviet and party congresses—the article shows to what extent the question of war and peace separated the socialist camp in at least two warring factions, i.e. the moderate socialists on the one hand and the radical left internationalists on the other. The paper argues that the question of war and peace was the pivot of all politics in 1917. At the same time, this conflict constituted a bone of contention when the radical factions of the Social-Democratic Internationalists and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries (Internationalists) split off their old parties in autumn of 1917. The paper discusses the four options to solve the question of war and peace: defencism, revolutionary war, “not war but uprising” and, finally, a separate peace. It further focusses on the Soviet Public Opinion about the separate peace treaty signed at Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918. |
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