Lesson from Russian Revolution
Ideology, State Craft and Nationalism
For an ideologically driven person ideology remains at no one
priority yet power politics has its own rules and mechanics. When someone with
specific rules or ideology enters in the power corridors, by hook or crook, a
shift starts suddenly. In many cases power politics with a massive experience
of State craft smartly neutralize ideology some times on the name of
nationalism and many times on the name of national interest. It happened everywhere
and there are still remote chances of vise versa. The story mentioned in this
piece is about early days of Russian Socialist revolution, it was time when
even Lenin was alive and Bolsheviks had command on every sphere. But state
craft, as usual, played smartly on the name of Russian Nationalism. Russian
Nationalism led the party and after the attack of Hitler, Russian nationalism swallows
the ideology smartly. Till the attack of Hitler on Russia, for Bolsheviks,
WW2 was an imperialist war yet after that attack under the pressure of Russian
nationalism revolutionary empire had to joined US led allied forces. At that
moment, USSR declared it people’s War. It was an ideological compromise as dictated
by nationalist forces. Russian communist party ordered their comrades in all
countries to support British War efforts. In 1943, Russian party broke
communist international (com-in-tern) and formed a new pro-moscow alliance under
the name Com-in-form. Then rest was history.
The lesson is there for comrades who often hook either in nationalisms
or national interest.
The lesson is not for comrades only yet new revolutionaries can also learn from it. For those who want to enter in power politics must have an idea of state craft and its working. They should have some balance approach and sologans so that they can gradually change things.
After that USSR was awarded with east Europe and also got place as no 2 world power yet it had to act as villain in planned Cold war.
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