Critical Analysis of a Document
‘Lev Kopelev (1912-1997): The Party Faithful?’
The primary document I have chosen to analyse is an extract taken from
Lev Kopelev’s book, ‘No Jail For Thought’ written in 1977. In this
extract he vividly expresses his views and attitudes held during the
time surrounding the communist rise in Russia during the 1930’s and
early 40’s. Kopelev was born in Kiev and grew up as a keen believer of
communism, later joining the communist movement. A strong mindset was
instilled into him early in his years working in the communist party
that he must not diverge from the party’s vision of victory at any
cost, stating ‘quarrels that served to distract us from our main goal
were inexcusable’ (Kopelev 1977). His main work in the 30’s was to
participate in the enforced collectivisation of agriculture, which was
part of a rapidly changing economic plan at the time orchestrated from
the top of political powers. Although it was originally the Bolshevik
Party led by Vladimir Llyich Lenin that brought about the Russian
Revolution in 1917, the dominant and strangling effects of communism
were not established until 1934 when ‘Stalinism as a system of rule
began in the Soviet Union’ (Lovenduski & Woodall 1987). This period
ran right up into World War Two, in which Kopelev also participated as
a major in the Red Army. Despite having never faulted from his fight
for the communist movement, Kopelev was arrested in 1945 in East
Prussia and subsequently spent nine years in a Soviet labour camp.
Even after such adversity he remained a true communist as a party
member. After his expulsion from the Communist Party in 1968, he still
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of Karl Marx who ultimately envisioned a ‘harmonious classless
society’ (ed. Bridgewater & Kurtz 1968). Right throughout his piece he
maintains that his belief in a socialist future was never crushed
recalling that ‘on the first day of my arrest, when I was in the back
of the car, gazing at the starry sky and being rushed off to prison, I
thought of it again.’ This relentless hope illustrated in his message
and that of original communist intentions displays how incredibly
ironical the result of the Party’s destructive method of completing
such a goal was. One feels in the end Kopelev is left with nothing
more than a betrayal of what he had set out to achieve and poetically
concludes with the notion that ‘I still believed it, but I also had
come to understand that form seeds like these come poisoned fruit.’
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