Modernisation through mobilisation
Excesses of violence, technological upheavals and tactical retreats in the early Soviet Union
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The early Soviet Union was a world of highly promising, often imported adventures in technology, heroic labour and overpowering mobilisation. The uneven development of the Bolshevist dictatorship of modernisation emerged from a sequence of desperate forward flight and tactical retreats. From a historical perspective, what most stands out is the violent and fragmented nature of the Soviet modern age.
(Osteuropa 8-10/2016, pp. 11–48)