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When Kropotkin met Lenin
- Author(s):
- Ruth Kinna (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Anarchism
- Subject(s):
- Socialism, Idea (Philosophy), History
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Peter Kropotkin, Lenin, Vanguardism, Prefiguration, revolution, History of ideas
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/j9t5-5740
- Abstract:
- Kropotkin’s meeting with Lenin in 1919 shows how contemporary concepts of vanguardism and prefiguration rely on concepts of revolution that have been historicised through the experience of the Russian Revolution. This fleeting single encounter also draws out a contrast between anarchist and Bolshevik ideas. The risk of returning to Russian revolutionary history to re-examine anarchist and Bolshevik concepts of revolution is that it encourages a misleadingly bipolar narrative. However, the point is neither to deny the complexity of the revolution nor to show what divided anarchists from Bolsheviks, still less Marxists – as if there were no greys in this relationship. Rather it is to consider what Kropotkin’s analysis of revolution, advanced in the course of a revolutionary struggle, represented and where prefigurative ideas elaborated thereafter, stand in relation to it.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Publisher:
- Lawrence and Wishart
- Pub. Date:
- 2017
- Journal:
- Socialist History
- Volume:
- 52
- ISSN:
- 9781912064519
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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