Brutalization Revisited

The Case of Russia

Bibliographic Data

ID10073706
AuthorsDietrich Beyrau (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume50
Issue1
Pages15-37
Publication date2014-09-12
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022009414542535
OpenAlexW2093240075
LanguageEN
Citations received4

In the case of Russia, the existence of a relationship between lost war, revolution, and Civil War is obvious. Unlike the German case, however, it has not been investigated in any detail. The Great War is often seen as the ‘forgotten war’ in the shadow of the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918–21. Inspired by George Mosse’s work on Germany, this article investigates the connections between these conflicts. It argues that it is not easy to reconstruct the direct linkages between the fronts of an industrialized war to the violence of revolution and civil war. Rather, enduring traditions were transferred, transformed, and radicalized: the style of rule, the result of an absent political and patriotic consensus between the heterogeneous communities of communication, and dispositions to violence among the decisive sectors of the population, not only the soldiers and the revolutionaries, but also the peasants and workers longing for an egalitarian and just economy. The main role of the war was that it destroyed the old state and set these pre-existing violent tendencies free, which began to feed on themselves

Economic history · German · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Shadow (psychology · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science · World War II · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Demography · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society

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