- Title
- World war and world revolution: Alexander Helphand-Parvus in Germany and Turkey.
- Creator
- Kieser, Hans-Lukas
- Relation
- Kritika Vol. 12, Issue 2, p. 387-410
- Relation
- http://kritika.georgetown.edu/past/12-2
- Publisher
- Slavica
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- A classic question of modern Middle Eastern studies concerns the limited impact of revolutionary European and Russian socialism in the late Ottoman world. In the 1910s, however, there was a cluster of significant intellectual convergences between leftist revolutionaries and the Young Turk “rightist revolution”: the concept of anti-imperialism; the desire for a strong state; support for world war as a catalyst of revolution and destroyer of the existing order; and, of particular importance, an identification of classes with ethno-religious groups that justified ethno-religious war and expropriation as forms of class struggle. In this article, I seek to explain these convergences by considering the connections among émigré intellectuals of both the Right and the Left in the 1910s. I focus in particular on the Russo-German socialist Alexander Parvus (1867–1924), whom the ruling Young Turks regarded as an expert on economy and revolution and who, perhaps unintentionally, provided an intellectual foundation for the appropriation of leftist concepts by the Right.
- Subject
- Alexander Parvus; Ottoman Empire; revolution; politics; Europe
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1057071
- Identifier
- uon:16128
- Identifier
- ISSN:1531-023X
- Language
- eng
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