| dc.contributor.author | Rendle, M | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-03-04T10:01:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Russia's Civil War was a period of escalating violence as the Bolsheviks struggled to retain power, yet it was also a period of numerous amnesties. This article analyses the nature and impact of these amnesties, and explores their value to the Bolsheviks. These amnesties were not a sign of mercy; they never admitted mistakes or granted innocence, but excused or underplayed crimes and their significance. Instead, amnesties had a range of practical and political functions for the state, not least of which was to act as a ‘safety valve’ to release burgeoning pressures on the fledgling justice system and tensions between state and society. | en_GB |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The majority of the research for this article was funded by a research fellowship from
The Leverhulme Trust and I am very grateful for their support. Additional research
emerged from a related project funded by the British Academy to whom I am also very
grateful. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 92, No. 3, pp. 449-478 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.3.0449 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/20452 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Modern Humanities Research Association | en_GB |
| dc.relation.url | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.92.3.0449 | en_GB |
| dc.rights.embargoreason | 2 year embargo required due to publisher policy. | en_GB |
| dc.title | Mercy Amid Terror? The Role of Amnesties during Russia's Civil War | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0037-6795 | |
| dc.description | Article | en_GB |
| dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from MHRA via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.journal | Slavonic and East European Review | en_GB |
