|
|
Article: The Russian Revolution.
- Article from:
- The Nation
- Article date:
- February 18, 1991
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1991 The Nation Company L.P. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
It is not surprising that the two most powerful questions of Russian polical discourse have long been "Who is to blame?" and "What is to be done?" Confronted with the Herculean taskes of establishing control over one-sixth of the earth's surface, integrating a diverse array of socially and culturally embedded political systems and constantly resisting in the process competitive and frequently aggresive European and Asiatic neighbors, Russians have typically retreated behind simplifying and simplistic perspectives. "Westernization," "modernization," "democracy," "socialism" and even "authoritarianism," not to mention its "totalitarian" ...