• 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.
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    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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