HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kulak, October Manifesto, Utopia
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There were two in 1917 the bolshevick was the most significant one. They have conference ein london, can not meet in russia. They talk about moving from autocracy to socialism. He is the leader a lawyer brilliant man. Believes in a utophian society a classless society. Capitalism has not collapse because eit has been propped up by imperialism as marx said capitalism would collapse. He said wwi was the great imperial war. The war will be the down fall of capitalism. He says it would be foolish to think workers would rise up, they need help. This is from the loss in war from japan. The tsar gives in and sets up the duma. Russia does not fit a marx model for a state to be throw up into revolution only 10% workforce rest agrarian. Lenin argues, we can bypass this of a workers making up 50% of population by having a party.