HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Alexander Kerensky, Rosa Luxemburg, Proletariat
18 Apr 2016
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His1110: the bolshevik revolution: started in russia, it radically transformed russia and elevated its global power. Brief russian history timeline: period of rising tensions. Product of 2 separate revolutions: collapse of russian state and failure of government to control the revolution, bolsheviks take over the revolution. Managed to triumph in the civil war and evict western. Last days of the tsars powers in russia: vast continental empire, russia under last tsars (1850-19050. Last countries in europe to abolish slavery. Mutiny in the naval barracks of st. petersburg. Economic development before ww1: sergei witte (1889-1906) Trans siberian railway 1905: military modernization (1912, ww1 comes too early for russia because they weren"t completely inished in their modernization process, The events of 1917: the bolsheviks rose up and seized power with the storming of the winter palace. Origins and causes of the bolshevik revolution: structural causes. Dislocation from war: initial reaction to war, 1914 defeat at tannenberg tsar was too oppressive.
