POLB92H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, European Political Science, 1905 Russian Revolution
25 Feb 2014
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Main events in the revolution: 1905 revolution, 1917 february revolution, 1917 october revolution, 1917-1921 civil war, 1922 creation of ussr, highly centralized autocratic rule that was more centralized than bourbon. There were three social groups: peasants were the dominant group and made up about 90% of the population. They worked for lords until serfdom was abolished in. 1861, which was really late for europe: the working class was small but growing. They were responsible for things like assassinations and the rise of real russia. They went into the countryside and awakened the peasants regarding the government: marxists were educated elites and focused more on modernization. Democratic labor party, which broke in 1903 between the. The bolsheviks were and elite revolutionary party to act as the vanguard of people. The mensheviks were a socialist party with broad membership and support: around this time the tsar thought it would be a good idea to have a war.
