Jay Bergman. The French Revolutionary Tradition in Russian and Soviet Politics, Political Thought, and Culture.

Contents

PART I

1789

1 – The Initial Reception of the French Revolution

2 – The French Revolution in the Russian Revolutionary Movement

3 – The Marxist Inheritance of the French Revolution

4 – Lenin: The Russian Robespierre

5 – Bolsheviks and Mensheviks on the Jacobins and the Girondins

6 – 1917—Russian Jacobins Come to Power

7 – Mythologizing the New Soviet Regime

8 – The Phantom of the Soviet Thermidor

9 – Stalin: The Jacobins as Proto-Stalinists

10 – Returning to the Leninist Line under Khrushchev and Brezhnev

11 – Transgressing the Leninist Line in the Gorbachev Era

PART II

1830

12 – The Revolution That Stopped Too Soon

PART III

1848

13 – The Revolution That Failed

14 – The Phantom of the Russian Bonaparte

PART IV

1871

15 – Revolution as Martyrdom

PART V

CONCLUSION

Conclusion