Lenin

by Mark Aldanov

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 ...if he does, it is to say, with all due deference to Sorel, that Bergson is a "bourgeois" and a "Christer!" As for the practical accomplishment of Russian Bolshevism, it finds its condemnation in this fragment from Sorel which I will quote in full although it is a trifle "I call attention to the danger which revolutions, produced in an era of economic decay, present for the future of a civilization. All Marxians do not seem to have paid due attention to Marx's ideas on this subject. He thought that the 'great catastrophe' would be preceded by a terrible economic crisis; but we must not confuse the crisis Marx had in mind with any form of disintegration. Crises seem to him the result of a too daring adventure in production which has created productive agencies out of proportion to the automatic regulating methods at the disposal of capital. Such an adventure takes for granted that the future be regarded as promising for the most powerful capitalistic enterprises, and that confidence in a coming period of economic expansion be absolutely preponderant at the time in question. For the middle classes, who may still find existence possible under the capitalist regime, to venture joining in revolt with the proletariat, prospects of production must seem to them as brilliant as the conquest of America must have seemed to the English peasants who left ancient Europe to hurl themselves into a life of danger in the new world." We wonder whether present-day Europe (not to mention Russia) with its hundreds of billions of debts, offers, at just the moment chosen by Lenin, the glowing economic outlook which the author of the Reflections on Violence requires for successful revolution! CHAPTER Vni SOME FUNDAMENTAL IDEAS OF BOLSHEVISM T COME...

58 pages, Paperback

Published May 14, 2012

About the author

Mark Aleksandrovich Aldanov was a Russian writer and critic,known for his historical novels.

Mark Landau (Aldanov) was born in Kiev in the family of a rich Jewish industrialist. He graduated the physical-mathematical and law departments of Kiev University. He published serious research papers in chemistry. In 1919 he emigrated to France. During 1922-1924 he lived in Berlin and during 1941-1946, in the United States.

Ivan Bunin, the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, nominated Aldanov for Nobel Prize a total of six times - in 1938, 1939, 1947, 1948, 1949, and 1950.

Reviews

[Daria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Хороший обзор на Н. Ленина и ряд деятелей с.-д. от ненадежного обозревателя Ландау-Алданова. Интересно, что в американской версии.