Konstantin Tarasov

Disputing the meaning of war: defencists, defeatists, and the intellectual struggle in the leftist movement, 1914–1916

Abstract This article explores the formation and political function of the binary opposition between defeatism and defencism within the Russian socialist movement during the First World War. Initially coined as polemical labels in the context of debates over worker participation...

Languages and Concepts of European Civil Wars, 1917–39: An Introduction

Abstract This introduction opens a special issue on ‘Languages and Concepts of European Civil Wars, 1917–39’. Drawing on case studies of Russia, Finland, Ireland, Austria and Spain, the issue examines civil war as a struggle over language and political identity. Its articles cons...