HIST 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Mensheviks, Finland Station, April Theses
23 Feb 2017
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Russian revolution of 1917 (movies to check out) About the fall of russian, german, austrian monarchies. ), american poet (10 days that shook the world) who wrote about. Not as good as fall of eagles but still good. This course has been pointed here ever since sept. Unexpected revolution when it came, yet very predictable. Historical grievances of all russian society classes: peasants, proles, intelligentsia, minorities, etc. Historical failure to resolve these by evolutionary means. Very important: two lectures to cover this. One problem with dealing with this: calendar problem. At the time of the revolution, russia runs on julian calendar, different than western europe"s gregorian calendar. We will be using the old-style julian calendar when talking about this. Gulf between 18th century state and society with 20th century aspirations was widening in wwi in 1917. Normal for russia rasputin murdered in 191(cid:888), forgotten now. Tsar left for front once more, gov"t in hands of his wife alexandra.
