Lynch's trial

Петровский В.Ф. (Petrovsky V.)

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The Lynch Court enjoys a most sinister reputation. Nevertheless, its historical background requires a different assessment. In the author's view, the Lynch Court was not a product of the slave-holding South, as is commonly believed, but of the "Wild West" era, when the North American continent was the scene of mass farm colonization. At that time, the Lynch Court was a tool of the farmer's dictatorship against large land speculators and government officials. Thus developed in the American people a well-known petty-bourgeois tradition of self-rule, or self-dealing. Based on the analysis of the "American character" and the reasons for its crisis in the XX century, the author explains the transformation that this tradition has undergone in modern times. The peculiarity of the national consciousness of Americans and American bourgeois democracy, conformism and American fascism, the nature of racial collisions and the essence of the Yankee as a modern type of bourgeois personality - these are the acute problems that constitute the subject of the historical and sociological analysis made in the book. The method of scientific and artistic description makes it accessible not only to specialists, but also to a wide range of readers.

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