HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture 19: The Fracturing of Western Modernity (2)
5 Jan 2018
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The fracturing of western modernity 2: the challenge of anti-liberal states. The russian revolution part 1 & 2 (module 1) Dissolution of russian monarchy: on international women"s day, march 9, 1917 a large group of women met in vyborg region or. Feb. revolution 1917 into this volatile situation a third force emerged in april 1917: activists of a small radical socialist group known as bolsheviks led by lawyer vladmir lenin returned to. Russia from exile denounced the provisional government and started to agitate in favour of soviets: bolsheviks were adherence to marx"s views of history in which the economically oppressed inevitably overthrow their oppressors. Arming of the soviets: the uprising was led by a general named kornilov, with the army unreliable, in desperation, the government armed the worker"s soviets, created red. Indeed, lenin and his compatriots used the soviets to take-over of power.
