Soviet Politics - The Dilemma of Power: The role of ideas in social change
Barrington Moore Jr.
Language: English
Pages: 537
ISBN: B000H85X16
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
An important contribution to Soviet studies. With admirable balance and insight Mr. Moore investigates the interaction between Communist ideology and Soviet political practices from the period of Lenin's theoretical formulations to the present Soviet bureaucratic state. His method of defining the principal questions concerning internal influences on Soviet foreign policy is particularly noteworthy.
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assembly made up of representatives of the people and in the form of a single chamber. 1. 2. Direct elections by secret ballot, with equal electoral rights for all sections of the population, including 3. Widespread local government. women. The inviolability of the person and of the home. Unrestricted freedom of conscience, of speech, of the press, of association, and the to strike. right 4. 5. To these were added several other demands, such as the separaand state, and a progressive
assembly and of union organization, in a word all the weapons and means by which the Western-European and American proletariat improves its position and at the same time battles against private property and capitalism for its ultimate liberation and for socialism. Political freedom is necessary for the Russian proletariat in the same way that fresh air is necessary for healthy 25 breathing." Again in 1905 a Party declaration asserted that one of the desired results of the revolution against
able to achieve for several years. Until Dilemma of Means and Ends 65 after the 1903 Congress the Party existed in the form of a scattered of discussion and agitational circles, tied together very group adherence to a common Within these circles loosely by viewpoint. more energy was devoted to attempts to convince the other mem- bers of the correctness of a particular shading of the Marxist Weltanschauung than to the overthrow of the Tsarist regime, a feature that was destined to be
of other leftist and non-Communist groups for the promotion of Soviet influence abroad. Expressions of this policy in England via the Anglo-Russian Trade Union Committee, an unsuccessful attempt to capitalize on the sympathy of the British trade unions for the Soviets, and in the abortive German and Chinese revolutions led to failure. In response to these failures Stalin of his Left opponents. policies moved toward the The shift became apparent International took a turn to the The in
paper was counter- many people it was impossible to trace who was responsible for any decision. Furthermore, the strong opposition of the villages to the socialist offensive of collectivization resulted numerous instances, he stated, of agreements between Party and state officials with "representatives of the class enemy/' In many cases under this pressure, the same source reports, imin 51 portant local leaders had joined forces with the class enemy. of masses in the the work of To
