Orlando Figes on Sergey Nechayev
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“He [Nechaev] was, in short, a Bolshevik before the Bolsheviks.”
“Its twenty-six articles [of Nechaev’s Revolutionary Catechism], setting out the principles of the professional revolutionary, might have served as the Bolshevik oath. [Only might?] The morals of that party owed much to Nechaev as they did to Marx.”