The Making of a Right Communist—A. I. Rykov to 1917
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7375502 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel A Oppenheim (California State University, Stanislaus, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 420-440 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2494976 |
| OpenAlex | W2331877510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Anyone familiar with Soviet history can identify A. I. Rykov: Lenin’s successor as chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars, a major leader of Right Communism, a victim of Stalin’s purges. But this tells us very little. Because of Rykov’s predilection for practical as opposed to ideological-literary work, his relative colorlessness in comparison with the other Bolshevik luminaries, and a lack of material, he has not been attractive to scholars. Yet Rykov looms large within the Bolshevik movement; he was prominent long before the revolution as well as after 1917. Furthermore, the seeds of Rykov’s positions of the 1920s—which clearly had an impact on the policies and politics of those years—were definitely sown before 1917
Communism · Economic history · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Successor cardinal · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · History · Law · Soviet and Russian History
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 1980 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |