HIST 326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mensheviks, Primitive Communism, Tsarist Autocracy
Document Summary
The teachings of marxism and the russian intelligentsia. Zemstvo one of the most important institutions on a local level, introduced as part of the great reforms": grs introduced by alexander i from 1864-7. Local council with people from different backgrounds local gentry, those whom were wealthy enough. Not a political institution but a school of teaching russians at a local level how to develop their iniatitives: became important at the end of the 19thc because it nurtured russian liberalism esp. Kadet party began career in the zemstvo institutions. Marxism and leninism = obligatory: originally, everyone studying humanities had to consider marxist ideas on the economy whilst being able to consider lenin"s concept of the party the battering ram". Marx as his first translation was done in russian in 1882 in 10 years he was the favoured reading of anyone whom was educated and wanted a blueprint for how to change the system.
