«NAPOLEON’S SUBSTITUTE» ON THE QUESTION OF SOVIET BONAPARTISM DEFINITIONS
Keywords:
Soviet Bonapartism, Civil War in Russia, Soviet State, World Revolution, L. D. Trotsliy, I. V. Stalin, M. N. Tukhachevsky, G. K. Zhukov, Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, military coup, worker’s democracy.Abstract
The article by T. A. Filippova analyzes the history of interpretation of the «Soviet Bonapartism» in two aspects: as a product of fear, a sustainable sociopsychological condition of a part of post-revolution society, and as an important factor in the system of representations which began to form inside the Soviet power elite since the moment of its emergence. The research material vividly demonstrates that the Bonapartist system as a «repertoire » of irrational conditions, threats and accusations prevailed over the minds of Soviet leaders sometimes pushing them towards preventive repressive measures against army commanders suspected in «Bonapartist» ambitions. But the same scheme allowed using the established «Soviet Bonaparte» stereotype in one’s interests with paradoxical efficiency. Such rationality in constructing and utilizing historical symbols, personal precedents, role functions, traditional phobias and actual accusations of «Bonapartist threats» properly worked and reproduced itself in mythological space of the power discourse. The research demonstrates that the phenomenon of the «Soviet Bonapartism» in the mirror of scientific and social representations is an interesting and not fully studied problem that requires new cognitive strategies and wider borders of rendition.Downloads
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2023-05-16
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История России