Russian Revolution Consequences quotes Flashcards
1
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Lynch:
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“1917 did not mark a complete break with the past. Rather it was the replacement of one form of state-authoritarianism with another”.
2
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Service:
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“The soviet order was extremely disorderly for a great deal of the time constantly they dipped into their rag-bag of authoritarian concepts to help them survive in power…and they felt that the ruthless measures were being applied in the service of a supreme good”.
“Most Bolshevik leaders had never liked the NEP, regarding it as an excrescent boil on the body politic and at worst a malignant cancer”.
3
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Volkogonov:
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Leninists established a new, barley disguised form of exploitation to be carried out by the state…the Leninist promise of great progress turned into great backwardness”.
