Russian Marxism and Its Populist Background

The Late Nineteenth Century

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ID3370302
AutoresRichard Pipes (autor correspondente)
Ano1960
Volume19
Fascículo4
Páginas316
Data de publicação1960-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Russian Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/126475
OpenAlexW2086442736
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8

can find numerous allusions to its connection with the Populist tradition, and in particular with the Jacobin wing of Populism, as represented by Tkachev and by the People's Will. Perhaps the first to point out such connections were the Mensheviks who were anxious to prove Lenin's radical departure from Marxism.1 Later, after the Bolshevik seizure of power, conservative thinkers like Peter Struve liked to point out the Populist kernel in a movement that was ostensibly Marxist.' And, more recently, historians (e.g., Michael Karpovich3), and a one-time member of the Bolshevik party now in emigration, N. Valentinov4 called attention to Lenin's debt to Tkachev and Chernyshevsky respectively. Yet, despite these hints, the relationship between the two principal currents of Russian revolutionary thought has never been thoroughly examined. Probably the explanation for this lacuna in our historiography must be sought in the fact that

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