HISB93H3 Lecture : lecture 4
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Explain significance of the excerpt - who what where when why how. First successful revolution undertaken the name of marxism, socialism and the name of working class. Powerful symbol for anti-capitalists, imperialists - political movements around the world. Creation of the soviet union -- challenge great european empire & us: conditioning marxism to fit russian conditions, lenin"s professional revolutionaries in 1917. Led by professionals, not normal people: workers" state in a peasant country. Over 80% of peasants - freed of serfdom in 1861 (western europe) Social change mainly in cities (moscow, st. petersburg) - modern co-existing with premodern. More intense for newly emerging working class. * appealed to tsar as a source of good & intervene - minimize hours, employ working conditions, right to elect representatives. * population = na ve, thought it was just local corruption. * treated inhumanely - lack of laws, ability to speak up. * highly resistant to reforms more radical forms of protest.
