Smenavekhite

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The Smenavekhites was a group of Soviet dissidents, originally founded by Nikolay Ustryalov. The Smenavekhites admonished its members to return to Russia predicting that the Soviet Union would not last and would give way to a revival of Russian nationalism.^[1] Initially, they supported co-operation with the Soviet government in the hope that the Soviet state would evolve back into a "bourgeois state".

Eventually, most of the Smena Vekh immigrants supported the Russian counter-revolution,[1] and later came to call themselves National Bolsheviks, borrowing the term from Ernst Niekisch.

Smena vekh "Change of Landmarks" was a weekly journal published in Paris from October 1921 to March 1922 by this group.[2]

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Laqueur, Walter (1996). The Dream that Failed : Reflections on the Soviet Union. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510282-7. p. 188

[edit] See also

• Nikolay Ustryalov
• National Bolsheviks

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