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Halfin, Igal

 
9780822959526: Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928: 233
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ISBN 10: 0822959526 ISBN 13: 9780822959526
Casa editrice: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2007

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Intimate Enemies is a brilliant study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure of power. Combining extensive research in recently opened Soviet archives with an insightful rereading of intra-Party struggles, Igal Halfin uncovers this evolution in the language of Bolshevism. This language defined the methods for judging true party loyalty-in what Halfin describes as an examination of the 'hermeneutics of the soul,' and became the basis for prosecuting the Party's enemies, particularly the \u201cintimate enemies\u201d within the Party itself. Halfin argues that Bolshevism-which claimed sole access to truth and morality-ultimately demonized its enemies, and became in effect a theology that facilitated a monumental power shift.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Igal Halfin is professor of history at Tel Aviv University. He is the author or editor of From Darkness to Light: Class, Consciousness, and Salvation in Revolutionary Russia, Terror in My Soul: Communist Autobiographies on Trial, and Language and Revolution: The Making of Modern Political Identities.

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Editore
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2007
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0822959526
ISBN 13 
9780822959526
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
432
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