The Other Bolsheviks : Lenin and His Critics, 1904–1914 / / Robert C. Williams.

Focusing on the thought and activities of A. A. Vogdanov, A. V. Lunacharsky, Maxim Gorky, and V. D. Bonch-Bruevich, this political and intellectual history of Bolshevism before 1914 shows that Lenin by no means dominated or controlled his own fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Worker's P...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
:
Place / Publishing House:Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1986.
Year of Publication:1986
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (233 p.) :; ill. ;
Notes:Includes index.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Focusing on the thought and activities of A. A. Vogdanov, A. V. Lunacharsky, Maxim Gorky, and V. D. Bonch-Bruevich, this political and intellectual history of Bolshevism before 1914 shows that Lenin by no means dominated or controlled his own fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Worker's Party, as his famous essay What Is to Be Done? (1902) implies. Rather, Lenin and his rival, Alexander Bogdanov, struggled to persuade divided and fissiparous revolutionary exiles to accept their respective ideals of rigid party authority and Marxist orthodoxy, on the one hand, or collectivist and syndicalist manipulation of the masses, on the other.
Bibliography:Bibliography: p. 222-228.
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Robert C. Williams.