Čistka u boljševičkoj teoriji i praksi
Purge in Bolshevik Theory and Practice

Summary/Abstract: The article tracks concept of „cleansing" in political theory and practice of the Bolshevik party and of Soviet Union. Lenin's understanding of importance of party purge and his deployment of cleansing to maintain party cohesion and to stabilize Soviet government is analyzed. The dynamics of „inner" and „outer" purges of the Leninist period is compared to the radicalization of the practice du-ring Stalin, through the transformation of cleansing into the method of political governance and social engineering. The consequences of export of this concept into the other communist parties through the influence of the Comintern are discussed, in particular the reception of the concept of purge and cleansing in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

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