Bibliograph

Intimate enemies, demonizing the Bolshevik opposition, 1918-1928, Igal Halfin

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Intimate enemies, demonizing the Bolshevik opposition, 1918-1928, Igal Halfin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Intimate enemies

Oclc number

768088968

Responsibility statement

Igal Halfin

Series statement

Pitt series in Russian and East European studies

Sub title

demonizing the Bolshevik opposition, 1918-1928

Summary

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 insight 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 intimate enemies 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--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- The First Intimate Enemy -- Introduction -- Individual Truth and Party Truth -- Chapter 1. Oppositionism as a Malady of the Mind -- Chapter 2. Killing with Words -- Chapter 3. Healing Oppositionist Souls -- Chapter 4. The Emergence of "Trotskyism" and "Zinovievism" -- Chapter 5. From a Weak Body to a Wicked Mind -- Chapter 6. Inquisition, Communist Style -- Epilogue -- The Opposition Demonized

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