Autobiography of Trotskyism: In Search of Redemption. In 2 Volumes
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Autobiography of Trotskyism: In Search of Redemption. In 2 Volumes
69.99 €
Igal Halfin's ambitious research project focuses on a key ritual of Bolshevism - the critical analysis of one's own self, the re-shaping of the individual through communist ethics. By analyzing the process of this specific form of self-discovery reflected in the ego-documents of the era, the author seeks to understand how the Great Terror became possible and why it was perceived by the Bolsheviks themselves as something natural. This book is the second part of the study, which differs from the first ("The Autobiography of Bolshevism") in its greater chronological scope (the narrative goes all the way to 1937) and is based primarily on materials from Siberian archives. The heroes of this book are oppositionists: ordinary communists, peasants with partisan experience, trained workers, builders of Kuzbass, then expelled from the Party and imprisoned in camps as Trotskyites or Zinovievites. With the help of their ego-documents and the materials of the control commissions of the 1920s, Khalfin traces the internal logic of the reasoning of the future victims of the Great Terror, as well as the changes in language and worldview that accompanied the political and ideological transformations of the post-revolutionary era. Igal Halfin is a professor in the Department of History at Tel Aviv University and a specialist in early Soviet history, literary and film theory.
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