Spies And Commissars: the Bolshevik Revolution And the West
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IN THE LIGHT OF THE FIRE The Bolshevik leaders saw themselves instead as the advance guard of Marxist science and revolutionary progress – they hated being thought of as mere politicians. Abroad, in the months before their propaganda reached foreign far-left socialists, they remained something of a mystery; and unsympathetic newspapers – as the vast majority were in the West – depicted them as a gang of vandals who had exploited the unusual circumstances of Russia’s wartime travail. The Russia...n adversaries of Bolshevism generally offered the same analysis. The few among them who accepted that Lenin and Trotsky were bright and intelligent nonetheless insisted that they had taken leave of their senses. The general prediction was that Bolshevik rule would be ephemeral. No one thought they stood much chance of holding on to power. Although the Bolsheviks themselves shared the suspicion that their days in government might be numbered, they still believed that their example would be followed elsewhere even if they went down to defeat.
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