HIST 1202H Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: 1905 Russian Revolution, Georgy Lvov, Leon Trotsky
6 Mar 2018
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Backwardness/political issues: nicholas ii (tsar 1895-1917, alexander ii (tsar 1855-1881, 1861 liberated slaves. 1905 revolution: bolsheviks majority, mensheviks minority, russo-japanese war (1904-05, adowa (1896) italia defeated by ethiopians. Social revolutionaries successors to populists: bloody sunday 22 january 1905, massacre of demonstrators at the winter palace, duma parliament, created political parties, kadets constitutional democrats, octobrists content with gains from october manifesto. Soviet (russian for council: leon trotsky - mensheviks, important bolshevik, rival of stalin for successorship to lenin. Second international (1889-1914: organization of socialist parties of the world, rosa luxemburg (1871-1919) german leftist, germany spd. Joseph stalin lenin"s successor as leader of soviet union: count sergei witte minister of finance. Prince peter stolypin minister of the interior: assassinated, reforms created independent farmers - kulaks. World war one: gumbinnen (august 1914, russian victory at start of wwi, tannenberg, masurian lakes (sept. 1914, two defeats by germans. Paul von hindenburg, erich von ludendorff german military leaders: aleksei brusilov russian general.
