- Title
- Within and without, or, the implications of the revolutionary miracle
- Creator
- Boer, Roland
- Relation
- Sino-Christian Studies Vol. 15, p. 7-40
- Publisher
- Chung Yuan Christian University
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- "In certain respects, a revolution is a miracle," wrote Lenin in 1921. Revolution = miracle; peBOΛЮЦЯ = ЧУДО: the permutations of this equation are the concern of this paper. Although revolution is arguably the central theme of Lenin5s extensive writings and political practice, my angle is different from the many others who have dealt with Lenin and revolution, for I am interested in the mutual translation between revolution and miracle. What does it mean for Lenin to say that revolution is a miracle? He was fond of calling revolutionary acts miracles, especially during the immense struggles of the "civil" war and the social and economic reconstruction after October. But in the process of making that translation between revolution and miracle, he expands the sematic fields of those two terms to include elements beyond the initial overlap, all of which leads to a redefinition of miracle as an act of stupendous human effort. Into that redefinition are drawn a series of crucial items, especially the tension between working within and without the current system, a tension this paper explores after tracking Lenirfs reformulation of miracle itself.
- Subject
- Lenin; miracle; revolution; legal; illegal
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1342681
- Identifier
- uon:29011
- Identifier
- ISSN:1990-2670
- Language
- eng
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