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How Should One Evaluate the Soviet Revolution?
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Vittorio Hösle
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November 1, 2017
Abstract
The essay begins by discussing different ways of evaluating and making sense of the Soviet Revolution from Crane Brinton to Hannah Arendt. In a second part, it analyses the social, political and intellectual background of tsarist Russia that made the revolution possible. After a survey of the main changes that occurred in the Soviet Union, it appraises its ends, the means used for achieving them, and the unintended side-effects. The Marxist philosophy of history is interpreted as an ideological tool of modernization attractive to societies to which the liberal form of modernization was precluded.
Keywords: Ethical evaluation of social events; Soviet revolution; continuities between pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia
Published Online: 2017-11-01
Published in Print: 2017-11-01
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Ethical evaluation of social events;
Soviet revolution;
continuities between pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelei
- Contents
- Editorial
- Focus: Evaluating Societies Morally?
- How Should One Evaluate the Soviet Revolution?
- The Philosophy of History: A Value-pluralist Response
- Evaluating Societies Morally: The Case of Development and ‘Developing’ Societies
- Strategies for the Justification of Law
- Legitimacy without Liberalism: A Defense of Max Weber’s Standard of Political Legitimacy
- General Part
- The Secularization Theory—Not Disconfirmed, Yet Rarely Tested
- Paths to Modernity and the Secularization Issue
- What Can we Learn from ‘Postmodern’ Critiques of Education for Autonomy?
- Discussion: Comments on J. Holt, Requirements of Justice and Liberal Socialism
- ‘Property-Owning Democracy’? ‘Liberal Socialism’? Or Just Plain Capitalism?
- Democratic Rights and the Choice of Economic Systems
- The Demands of Democratic Ownership
