A “Golden Age” or Thoughts on the Origins of Communism

Nikita N. Moiseev

Chapter Chapter 12 in How Far It Is to Tomorrow, 2022, pp 261-273 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract I’ve thought a great deal about the reasons for the popularity of the communist doctrine. I myself, after all, was a member of the communist party for almost fifty years, although merely formal membership such as mine was, might prompt a somewhat different question. I was accepted for Party membership in the Summer of 1942; a punishing war was under way, and the fate of my country, of my people, was being decided. These are no empty words: we know full well the actual intentions behind the fascist slogans. And even back then we all knew what was going on in the occupied territories. Although I identified our Motherland neither with the government nor the Party, the frontline slogan “Forward, Communists!” struck a chord close to my heart; I wanted to be with those in the vanguard. Both wanted and strove. I strove to recover from my branding as an outcast. I felt myself to be Russian, and here, in Russia, I had to be in the forefront of things.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96651-5_12

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