Lenin's terror
Subtitle: the ideological origins of early Soviet state violence
By: James Ryan
Series: Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series -- 36; Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series -- 36.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415673969; 9780203115763
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Violence; State-sponsored terrorism; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ideology and terror; title: "Revolution is war": the genesis of a militant Marxism, 1894-1907; title: "Violence to end all violence": ideological purity and the Great War, 1907-1917; title: "History will not forgive us if we do not seize power now"; title: Revolutionary imperative, 1917; title: Confronting the "wolves in the forest", October 1917-summer 1918; title: The red terror; title: Civil war: the strengthening of dictatorship, 1919-21; title: War and peace: from civil war to NEP, 1919-1921; title: "We will cleanse Russia for a long time": the contradictions of NEP; title: Lenin's terror.