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Titre État « prolétarien » et science « bourgeoise » [ Les specy pendant les premières années du pouvoir soviétique]
Auteur Ettore Cinnella
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers du monde russe
Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique
Numéro volume 32, no 4, octobre-décembre 1991 Spécialistes, bureaucratie et administration dans l'Empire russe et en URSS, 1880 - 1945
Page 469-499
Résumé anglais Ettore Cinnella, Proletarian state and bourgeois science : the spetsy during the first years of Soviet rule. Considering the debates on "military specialists", one can see that the main reason of the confrontations between the leaders who were favourable to creating a regular army and the members of the so-called "military opposition" lay in the uncertain attitude of the peasantry towards Soviet power. In order to overcome the resistance of rural masses, some Bolsheviks were proposing the way of persuasion and army democratization, while others were insisting on the necessity to resort to measures of constraint. As to the living and working conditions of "bourgeois" technical and scientific personnel, the spontaneous hate of the plebeian masses for spetsy was nourished by Bolshevik leaders' contradictory and ambiguous attitudes. The third part of the article is devoted to the problem of bureaucracy. The confidence which Lenin and the overwhelming majority of the party entertained lor the administrative capabilities of the toiling masses was in contradiction with the reality and was leading to the conviction that the cause of the bureaucratic phenomenon lay in the presence of former tsarist officials inside the government apparatus of the new regime.
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