Jan Waclaw Machajski: A Radical Critic of the Russian Intelligentsia and Socialism

· Russian and East European Studies Book 233 · University of Pittsburgh Pre
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Jan Waclaw Machajski's (1866-1926) political doctrine, known as Makhaevism, was a synthesis of several revolutionary theories in Western and Eastern Europe: Marxism, anarchism, and syndicalism. His criticism of the intelligentsia and theory of a "new class" were influential to Communism and helped to create a hostility that culminated in Stalin's Great Purge of the 1930s.
Jan Waclaw Machajski's (1866-1926) political doctrine, known as Makhaevism, was a synthesis of several revolutionary theories in Western and Eastern Europe: Marxism, anarchism, and syndicalism. His criticism of the intelligentsia and theory of a "new class" were influential to Communism and helpe...

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Marshall S. Shatz is professor of history, emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Marshall S. Shatz is professor of history, emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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