Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.179-196(2018)
Bernard Nežmah
{"title":"The October Revolution as Leftist Fascism: From the Curbing of Capitalists to the Curbing of Artists","authors":"Bernard Nežmah","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.179-196(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.179-196(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the phenomenon of the October Revolution through the prism of Lenin’s article The State and Revolution, which describes and anticipates the mechanisms of revolutionary action intended to eliminate the exploitation of the working class and to establish a more just social order. The study compares Lenin’s theory with his revolutionary practice by accentuating the concept of ‘the curbing of capitalists’, illuminated by and examined through a series of synchronic and diachronic perspectives, which ultimately led to the formation of the term ‘enemy of the people’ (‘class enemy’). At the same time, it attempts to define and historically determine the actual duration of the October Revolution. The second part of the paper applies the concept of ‘curbing’ to the situation of artists within the Bolshevik state. Thus it presents a range of artists’ attitudes to the Revolution, which had lumped critical and independent artists together with capitalists as ‘enemies of the people’.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131530762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.69-80(2018)
A. Zidar
{"title":"Russian Revolution and the International Legal System","authors":"A. Zidar","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.69-80(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.69-80(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"Two potent ideologies came to loggerheads after WWI: communism, which rose to the fore after the Russian revolution, and the so far dominant liberalism. At first glance the two ideologies share surprisingly similar views on the fundamental questions of the international legal system. But a more thorough look at the development of the Soviet doctrine of international law reveals some fundamental differences. The goal of the Russian revolution was to set up a worldwide socialist society, with the working class given a dominant role. This goal dissolved after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, it is possible to identify in the international legal system a positive and still valid legacy of the Russian revolution, such as the principle of the self-determination of nations, the concept of economic, social and cultural rights, the principle of public conclusion of treaties, the prohibition of aggressive war, as well as a polycentric view of the world structure.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132655684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.227-243(2018)
Darko Štrajn
{"title":"The October Revolution: Inspiration or Trauma for the New Left","authors":"Darko Štrajn","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.227-243(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.227-243(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"Despite some reductionist attempts to define the 1960s and 1970s New Left as a predominantly intellectual, generational, political, or cultural phenomenon, it was clearly a vast, very pluralistic, diverse and predominantly leftist radical political and social movement. In the intellectual and political discourses expressing the general reflections of the New Left on revolution and its meaning, the October Revolution was, of course, an important historical theme. The many interested interpretations, while contradictory and diverging in various ways, have agreed primarily in their recognition of its fundamental emancipatory or liberating significance and in their criticism of Stalinism. To illustrate this thesis, the present paper surveys the views held by four most representative interpreters or critics of the Soviet revolution, who demonstrate the attitude of the New Left to the Russian revolution and to its aftermath: Marcuse, Debray, Dutschke, and Cohn-Bendit.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"12 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131839520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.139-177(2018)
Neža Zajc
{"title":"The Concept of Freedom in Artistic Expression as Held by Russian Poets during the 1917 Revolution","authors":"Neža Zajc","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.139-177(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.139-177(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the situation among Russian intellectuals in 1917, when Russian reality was simmering with revolutionary events and concomitant complications. The author focuses on the state of consciousness of selected poets: Alexander A. Blok, Osip E. Mandelstam, Vladislav Hodasevich, and Anna A. Akhmatova. Particular attention is given to personal documents, such as diaries, letters and testimonies. The paper seeks to describe as authentically as possible the experience of the abovementioned poets (their responses, doubts, questions raised by the historical events) and their attempts to embrace the historical reality as a totality of ideas. This conceptual totality was most prominently reflected in their thoughts about artistic freedom or freedom of creation. Presented in detail is the inner life (motives, initiatives, needs) of those verbal artists who felt called upon to help people spiritually by means of their creativity.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"116 43","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113944646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.245-260(2018)
N. Borak
{"title":"Economic Organisation of Socialism","authors":"N. Borak","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.245-260(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.245-260(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"The paper confronts the views of three theoreticians, all of them contemporaries and men of action, on the economic organisation of socialism. Although from different perspectives, both Lenin and Schumpeter believed in the success of socialism, while Keynes was in favour of reform and the survival of capitalism.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126654732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.123-137(2018)
Manca Erzetič
{"title":"Russian Revolution through the Prism of Srečko Kosovel’s World View and His Poetry","authors":"Manca Erzetič","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.123-137(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.123-137(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the influence of the Russian Revolution as evidenced in Srečko Kosovel’s intellectual and poetic creativity. Multifaceted and complicated, this influence includes socio- critical, cultural-reflexive, aesthetic and poetological aspects. Of key importance is Kosovel’s preoccupation with the crisis of humanity in the historical situation of Europe and of the world in general after the end of the First World War, which affected both individual and community, both worker and nation. While the Russian revolution undoubtedly led Kosovel to believe that the world could become more humane, he cannot be considered a ‘believer of the revolution’ in the sense of adherence to revolutionary ideology. In his view, the role of creating a ‘New Humanity’ definitely belonged to art.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"1105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133861681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.95-121(2018)
Petra Testen Koren
{"title":"‘Give Us Bread! Make Peace!’ Hinterland of the (Isonzo) Front, Food Shortage and the Consequences of Revolutionary Events in Russia","authors":"Petra Testen Koren","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.95-121(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.95-121(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"In the hinterland of the Isonzo Front, at the home front, the war was felt particularly through the shortage of food, through hunger. This burden necessarily fell on women, who had to feed themselves and their families. In this case, too, women were expected to act heroically and patriotically, to skimp and save and make sacrifices. In the last war years women became increasingly loud and demonstrated in the streets, demanding ‘bread’ as well as ‘peace’. In Slovenia they flocked to join the declaration movement. For a better tomorrow they demanded rights ‘for the nation’, and voices were even heard in favour of women’s political rights.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129324139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.51-68(2018)
Simon Malmenvall
{"title":"Ideational Preconditions to the Success of the October Revolution","authors":"Simon Malmenvall","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.51-68(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.51-68(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to analyse some ideational preconditions, traced back to the preceding periods of Russian history, which enabled the success of the October Revolution in 1917. Firstly, the article deals with the views of Georges Florovsky (1893–1979), Russian theologian, philosopher and historian. Florovsky argues that Russian thought had been ‘in captivity’ ever since the 16th century, a captivity imposed by Western influences. Among the foreign influences, it is the German idealist philosophy that is perceived by Florovsky as the most detrimental, for it paved the way for various utopian projects, including the Bolshevik revolution. Secondly, the article examines the notions of the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948). From Berdyaev’s point of view, the victory of Bolshevism resulted from Russia’s lack of a free secular intellectual- philosophical tradition, which was thwarted by the authoritarian state. As a consequence, Bolshevik ideology interpreted the original Marxism in conceptually closed terms. The present paper argues that the views of Florovsky and Berdyaev are acceptable yet partial. This is because they are concerned with generally interpreting the formation of the intellectual environment which favoured the victory of Bolshevism on Russian soil, without considering the complexity of Russian politics and society at the turn of the 19th century.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124105675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.7-31(2018)
Igor Grdina
{"title":"Alexander on a White Horse","authors":"Igor Grdina","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.7-31(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.7-31(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses various interpretative strategies and narratives applied to the role which was played by Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881–1970) in the Russian Revolution. It critically evaluates views of the provisional government’s president as a non-radical revolutionary, whose work called for an upgrade in a ‘second revolution’, as well as the interpretation which makes him out to have been a counter-revolutionary at his core. Tracing the causes of his actions in 1917 to his personality traits, the study arrives at the conclusion that Kerensky was a revolutionary of an entirely different breed from those who removed him from power in October 1917; for him, the ‘first revolution’ was enough. The contribution also examines those of Kerensky’s actions which benefited his left-wing opponents, particularly his policy of disassembling the government apparatus out of fear of the right-wing enemy.","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122008473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Monitor ISHPub Date : 2018-06-13DOI: 10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.263-269(2018)
Karmen Medica
{"title":"Artemidorus, The Interpretation of Dreams, Translation, Commentary, Interpretive Study and Edited by Maja Sunčič","authors":"Karmen Medica","doi":"10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.263-269(2018)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.20.1.263-269(2018)","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":197112,"journal":{"name":"Monitor ISH","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133510353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}