Szilagyi expounds that bolshevism had two, equally rationally com-mited „souls", two determining trends-one realistic and another one, the romantic. (The two types are personified by Lenin and Trotski.) But neither had anything to do with Stalin: with him and his "irrational realism" a representative of the lumpen strata appeared in power. Szilagyi points to the relationship between the Trotski line and the avantguarde Russian art of the 1920s and the logic of destroying the two together by Stalin.
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Do we know where we are heading? Review of the Soviet Union’s current political movements
The analysis tries to review and group the political trends of the multiparty system in the Soviet Union which exists in a very initial form as yet, and it separates the the different phases of the emergence of a multi-party system. It states that the Soviet Communist Party which cannot be classified as a party for quite some time, involves the most different forces and when these are separated, this party will not have a future any more. The main political forces in the Soviet Union, too, include the national-conservative, the liberal-bourgeois and the labour-socialist (and the „vanguard" which is being pushed into the back). The author's sympathy is with the future party of the workers which, however, is still far from being able to mobilise masses of people.
Selected bibliography proposed to the history of the „Russian model”
Statistics about the Soviet Union
Among the articles, we insterted some useful tables, which are recommended to our readers in order to help them in getting an overview about the Soviert-Russian development.
The actuality of Berdaiev
Berdiaiev's book, as it can be termed as a prophesy concerning many elements of the Russian model, has become very popular among Hungarian readers interested in political sciences. The reviewer – while acknowledging a number of merits of Berdiaiev's work, underlining many of his productive ideas (from the mutual Utopia of the opposition of Slavofil-Western ideas, to the role of the anarchic-egalitarian tradition, cultural backwardness, the far too abstract handling of the proletariate by Russian marxism etc.)- calls the attention to the falsifications of the study. This especially applies to those points where today Stalinism is washed together with bolshevism and certain trends of bolshevism with the whole of bolshevism. Finally, he calls Berdiaiev himself to testify and decide that what has been realised or what failed in the Soviet Union was not socialism.