title: Origins of revolutionary fanaticism. Faith issue of Feliks Dzerszhinsky
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metadata.value: Blecharczyk, Karolina
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-08-07T09:50:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-08-07T09:50:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Blecharczyk K. Origins of revolutionary fanaticism. Faith issue of Feliks Dzerszhinsky. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2018, vol. 11, issue 2, pp. 249–257.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu12.2018.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14701
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metadata.value: This paper explores the case of origins Felix Dzerzhinsky’s ideological fanaticism: Polish national
  insurgent tradition and Christianity as the factors which had the most important influence
  on his personality. Revolutionary activity, martyrdom, radicalism and even writing
  the diary are the symptoms of Polish romantic influences that were implemented by his upbringing
  and education. Also, some elements of his mentality, like faith in the personal and
  worldwide mission, the strong maximalist belief in his ideas rectitude and fast social or state
  abolishment are connected to Russian radical intelligentsia. Dzerzhinsky has the vision of
  himself as the only practical continuator of Jesus Christ revolutionary teaching. In his interpretation,
  he was a real Apostol of new Christian faith — socialism. Redirection of religious
  energy from the higher goals to material reality led to the vision of common happiness build
  in the way of destruction. Because he sacrificed his entire life and conscience for old world
  burning, Dzerzhinsky started to consider himself as “Christ of the Revolution”. This symbol
  was needed to establish an organization of Bolsheviks who were able to the same immolation
  in the time of the Red Terror. Those contrary influences of Polish and Russian culture are the
  reason of Felix Dzerzhinsky’s personality disintegration that he tried to cure by subordination
  to the party, heroic devotion to work and fanaticism.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian Revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Felix Dzerzhinsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fanaticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bolshevism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Polish romanticism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: socialism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Origins of revolutionary fanaticism. Faith issue of Feliks Dzerszhinsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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