The Bolsheviks sought legitimacy and inspiration in historic revolutionary traditions, and Jay Bergman argues that they saw the revolutions in France in 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871 as supplying practically everything Marxism lacked, including guidance in constructing socialism and communism, and useful fodder for political and personal polemics.
- | Author: Jay Bergman
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: October 8, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 576 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0198842708
- | ISBN-13: 9780198842705