HIST 326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vladimir Mayakovsky, War Communism, Nepman
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Necessary to relate the keyword to a wider historical context e. g. pogrom specific russian term for violence against jews within. Several waves of attack with the majority occurring during 1904 and 1905 with the general upheaval occurred. With this dreaming and social projects, was that in october 1917, the bolsheviks were confronted with very real problems. Georgian mensheviks, black parties and the green army. Ukraine in the b-l treaty, so that they did not become hotbeds of revolution: example of the early 1700s. War communism worked for the armies and cities but by 1921 the whole country was devastated: there was mass starvation russia looked like a post-apocalyptic nation as the big cities emptied before 1923. Moscow lost it"s population as more than a million people went to the countryside. Petrograd 450,000 left of 3 million: peasants were dying like flies famine of 1921 claimed the lives of 5 million people, none of this shook the faith of lenin.
