Totalitarism and Russian revolution

Author(s):  S.P. Schavelev, Dr., Prof., Kursk State Medical University, Kursk , Russia, sergei-shhavelev@yandex.ru

Issue:  Volume 43, № 4

Rubric:  Thesis

Annotation:  The paper is an attempt to supplement those estimates of the Russian history of the 20th century which are contained in the article by R.G. Abbasova, O.S. Borisova, V.P. Rimskiy "Great Russian Revolution ...". The revolution of 1917 is considered as the matrix of all later totalitarian regimes. According to the archival data cited in the article the actions of the revolutionaries destroyed an appreciable part of the country's population without trial and being guilty and significantly decreased the level of welfare for most of the survivors comparing to the imperial Russia.

Keywords:  ideology, Marxism, totalitarianism, political repression, the Soviet daily life in the city and in the countryside.

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