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From Russian Socialism to Soviet Communism

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The Russian Populist movement which emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century was an intellectual, radical movement directed to the destruction of the existing Russian political and social system which, in the words of Sir Isaiah Berlin, it condemned as ‘a moral and political monstrosity — obsolete, barbarous, stupid and odious’.1 The founder of Russian Populism was Alexander Herzen, who left Russia for Paris in 1847. Herzen’s experience of the rise and fall of the 1848 revolution in France, while it confirmed his conviction that only a socialist revolution could save Europe, raised in his mind doubts as to whether Europe’s energies and will-power were sufficient to achieve this end. Might it not be possible, Herzen argued, that Russia though the most backward country in Europe, might succeed where others have failed? The long-established Russian peasant communities (theobshchina ormir) which played a central role in village economic and social life, might, under the guidance of dedicated revolutionaries, become the foundation for a Russian agrarian socialist society.

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Macfarlane, L.J. (1998). From Russian Socialism to Soviet Communism. In: Socialism, Social Ownership and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26987-7_9

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