The great error | Review: The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine

“The Bolsheviks were not a party but an apocalyptic sect in a long line of millenarians extending back to the ancient Israelites; in their “totalitarian” demands on the individual believer the Bolsheviks are cut from the same cloth as the sixteenth-century Münster Anabaptists and the original “radical fundamentalist”, Jesus Christ.”

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