HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Democratic Labour Party Of Norway, Orthodox Marxism, Mensheviks
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Transformation with sweeping goals tried to set a system that would sweep away the entire social structure government, institutions. Serfs were only freed from legal bondage in 1860. In the 30 years leading up to the revolution, russia saw a economic growth. However it did not reach the peasants which made up 85% of the country. Urban working class was very close to peasantry. Many workers worked in the cities for part of the year during down times of the agricultural season. In 1903 the party split into two groups. Bolsheviks revolutionary (lenin) majority even if they were the minority. Lenin"s revision of marxism: in countries which weren"t very modernised, you could have a workers" revolution without growing the state of industrial capitalism (for marx capitalism was necessary) There is a way to create the politicism of. They were more modern accepted the need for liberalism and capitalism. Isn"t the end result of class consciousness but the goal.
