HIST 1007 Chapter : HIST 11 17 14
Document Summary
The tsar failed to provide meaningful political rights. The duma, or parliament at the time, represented the people in body and name only. It was actually a shallow exercise at best. Urban workers formed the clearest revolutionaries of the liberals, though there were peasants and other middle class as well. usual force behind political and economic liberalism. Strikes and food riots broke out in capital, and individuals were calling for: second radical revolution carried out by small wing of russian party, called. Bolsheviks, and were led by dynamic leader called vladimir lenin. Lenin and the bolsheviks had a coherent plan of action. Lenin thought revolution was further possible because capitalism had extended so widely around world. According to lenin and group, it was against not only capitalism in russia, but imperialism around world fueled by capitalism. Marxist leaders and thinkers to create a unanimous revolution (how and when it would take place), especially socialist anarchist party.
