title: The Сelebration of the First Anniversary of the October Revolution and the Red Terror: Legitimizing of Revolutionary Violence
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metadata.value: Godunov, K. V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-02-18T13:02:22Z
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metadata.value: 2021-02-18T13:02:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Godunov K. V. ‘The Сelebration of the First Anniversary of the October Revolution and the Red Terror: Legitimizing of Revolutionary Violence’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 4, 2020, pp. 976–988.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2020.410
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/24328
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author explores how attitudes toward the Red Terror and activities of the Cheka were manifested
  during celebrations of the first anniversary of the October Revolution. Based on a study of speeches by Bolshevik
  leaders, propaganda materials related to the festival, discussions at various levels, and characteristics about the
  holiday provided by opponents and enemies of the ruling party, the author demonstrates what arguments were used for legitimation and delegitimation of the Red Terror. The author analyzes the discussion by D. B. Ryazanov
  and G. E. Zinovev on the correlation of terror and the holiday; characterizes the position of V. I. Lenin and other
  prominent Bolsheviks who used the holiday as a resource to discuss the powers of the Cheka; and describes
  positions of opponents to the Bolsheviks. The significance of one of the first political amnesties in Soviet history,
  dedicated to the celebration of the October Revolution, is described. Prominent Bolsheviks perceived the role of
  terror in the revolution in different ways: if V. I. Lenin and G. E. Zinovev, in the struggle to strengthen their influence,
  were insistent on the need to deepen terror, D. B. Ryazanov insisted that the scope of repressive politics should
  be limited, and L. B. Kamenev lobbied for amnesties. All of them used the celebration of the first anniversary of
  October to implement their projects. Research on the linkage between the Red Terror and the holiday provide
  insights into the specifics of the political situation in the autumn of 1918.
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metadata.value: This article was prepared in the framework of a research conducted at the European University in Saint Petersburg
  with the financial support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSСF), project no. 20-18-00369 (“The processes
  of legitimization of violence: conflict cultures in Russia and the escalation of Civil war”).
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Civil war
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet festivals
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Red Terror
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conflict
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Сelebration of the First Anniversary of the October Revolution and the Red Terror: Legitimizing of Revolutionary Violence
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metadata.value: Article
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