An uncanny honeymoon : Spanish anarchism and the Bolshevik dictatorship of the proletariat, 1917-22
| dc.contributor.author | ZOFFMANN RODRIGUEZ, Arturo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-03T11:14:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-03T11:14:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description | First published online: 05 December 2018 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The Russian Revolution became a beacon flare for anti-capitalists across the world, including many anarchists. The Spanish anarcho-syndicalists became ardent supporters of Bolshevism, and many endorsed the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Here, I try to arrive at a political and historical understanding of this uncanny honeymoon, and question empirical explanations that present it as a simple misunderstanding. I firstly historicize the evolution of the concept of the workers' dictatorship in the Spanish labor movement and assess it through the prism of the antagonism between the anarchists and socialists. I then set the reception of the Russian Revolution in the context of social ferment that emerged in Spain after 1917, which generated enormous enthusiasm and clouded theoretical differences. I finally relate the reception of the Soviet dictatorship to the intensification of class violence in these years, which rendered many anarchists hospitable to the authoritarian methods of the Bolsheviks. | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | International labor and working-class history, 2018, Vol. 94, No. 1, pp. 5-26 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0147547918000066 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 26 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0147-5479 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1471-6445 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 1 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 5 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70334 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 94 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.orcid.upload | TRUE | |
| dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | International labor and working-class history | en |
| dc.title | An uncanny honeymoon : Spanish anarchism and the Bolshevik dictatorship of the proletariat, 1917-22 | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-2557-7848 | |
| person.identifier.other | 39067 | |
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