The 1917 Russian Revolution from the perspective of white-guardist and bolshevik state building
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SYSNO ASEP
0502029
Document Type
J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type
Journal Article
Subsidiary J
Ostatní články
Title
The 1917 Russian Revolution from the perspective of white-guardist and bolshevik state building
Author(s)
Halász, Ivan (USP-I)
Source Title
Krytyka Prawa : Niezależne studia nad prawem. - Warszawa : Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
- ISSN 2080-1084
Roč. 10, č. 2 (2018), s. 561-572
Number of pages
12 s.
Publication form
Print - P
Language
eng - English
Country
PL - Poland
Keywords
Bolsheviks ; dictatorship ; revolution ; state-building ; White Guardist movement
Subject RIV
AG - Legal Sciences
OECD category
Law
Institutional support
USP-I - RVO:68378122
Annotation
The 1917 Russian Revolution was one of the central events of the 20th century, resulting in a great deal of novel developments not only in terms of ideology and socio--economics, but also in the field of state-building. Very innovative was the Bolshevik state-building. Both in terms of power and administration and in terms of the identity of the state, the Bolsheviks were thinking in terms of a completely new and novel concept of the state. The camp of the opponents of the Bolsheviks was heterogeneous. They ranged from the hardest Russian etatists to anarchists of various bents kinds As a result, the White movement’s ideology was strongly reflective (reactive) in its character. The majority of White leaders saw their own system as a military dictatorship restoring order. Officially, the generals claimed that their role was temporary, to be maintained only until the rule of law and the unity of the state are restored in Russia. It was, in fact, one of their paramount objectives to restore a “unified and indivisible” Russia. Although the factual existence of a military dictatorship did not mean that representative bodies in various forms and with various competencies did not exist at all, those bodies could never be equal partners of the leading generals. They were more akin to consulting bodies. Instead, amid the terror and the chaos of the Civil War, the ideology of ‘the strong hand’ and ‘effective, stable power’, without any additional adjectives became increasingly important in the ideology of the White movement.
