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N. K. Mikhailovskij and his Criticism of Russian Marxism1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2018

Arthur P. Mendel
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The persistent stress on the most extreme aspects of Russian history, in a search for the roots of Bolshevism, has led to a remodeling of the Russian past into patterns more consistent with the Soviet present. As one result of this bias, such tendencies as liberalism and moderate agrarian socialism have been, at best, summarily discussed, and Lenin's Tkachevist interpretation of Marxism has obscured the basically reformist character of Russian Marxism that persisted from Plekhanov's Organization of Labor group, through Legal Marxism and Economism into the Menshevik and Liquidator opposition to Bolshevik policies.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , October 1955 , pp. 331 - 345
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1955

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1 The author gratefully acknowledges the support given him in his research by the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and the Fulbright Scholarship Committee.

2 The mass of postwar literature regarding the economic growth of underdeveloped countries has once again posed the problem of industrialization in agrarian economies and, most important, at a rate of growth that will not lead to the social distress from which, once again, the Tkachevs and Lenins of Asia will be the only gainers.

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17 Ibid., p.116.

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19 Ibid., p. 111.

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21 Ibid., pp. 157-58.

22 R. B. (October, 1894), p. 55.

23 R. B. (January, 1894), pp. 105-8.

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30 Ibid., I,29.

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32 Ibid., p. 109.

33 Ibid., p. 110 and R. B. (October, 1894), pp. 49-50.

34 Otkliki, I, 300.

35 Ibid. 1,281;, II, 169-72.

36 Ibid., II, 132; I,301-2.

37 Ibid., I, 299, 308.

38 R. B. (January, 1894), p .99.

39 Ibid., pp. 110-12.

40 Otkliki, I, 275-76, 303.

41 R. B. (October, 1894), pp. 56-57.

42 R. B. (January, 1894), p. 113.

43 R. M. (June, 1892), p. 195.

44 R. B. (January, 1894), pp. 118-19

45 Ibid., pp. 99-100, 119.

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47 R. B. (October, 1894), pp. 64, 76-77.

48 Otkliki, I, 267.

49 Ibid., p. 314, and R.B. (October, 1894), pp. 76-77.

50 R. M. (June, 1892), p. 199.

51 For a dramatic demonstration of this change compare Mikhailovskij's criticism of Dostoevsky's Possessed written in the early seventies (Sochinenija, 1888, pp. 305-6) with his articles written for the People's Will party at the end of the seventies (quoted in Evgen'ev-Maksimov, V., Ocherki po istorii socialisticheskoj zhurnalistiki v Rossii XIX veka (Moscow, 1927)Google Scholar. Cf. N. Rusanov “ ‘Politika’ N. K. Mikhailovskogo,” Byloe(July, 1907), p. 126, and V. Bogucharskij, , Iz istorii politicheskoj bor'by (Moscow, 1912), pp. 399,4oo Google Scholar.

52 R. M. (June, 1892), p. 192.

53 Ibid., and R. B. (January, 1894), p. 105.

55 Otklihi,, II, 182.

56 Ibid., 162.

57 R.B. (January, 1894), pp. 112-13.

58 R. M. (June, 1892), p. 198; R. B. (October, 1894), p. 46; Otkliki, I, 18, 291-92, 295; II, 134-46.

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60 R. M. (June, 1892), p. 201.

61 The following quotations are abstracted from Rusanov, “ ‘Politika’ N. K. Mikhailovskogo,” Byloe (July, 1907), pp. 134-38.

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