HIS351Y1 Lecture Notes - Julius Martov, Mensheviks, Winter Palace
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Plekhanov: populist turned marxist, breaks with populists over terrorism and peasantry, first real russian marxist, 2 main issues with the populists. Thought the working class not the peasants would be the basis of revolution in russia. Saw terrorism as not the most productive way to create a revolution and a new order. Emancipation of labour (1883: pavel axelrold, zasulich, first russian marxist group. First congress of social democratic party: minsk, 1898, first real congress based on marxism, only 7 - 9 marxists and it didn"t amount to any real organization within russia of. Iskra (the spark) was the brain child of lenin. It was the marxist newspaper that was the early focus of the russian marxists movement: first issue, december 1900, the main aim was to organize a congress that would be the marxist party for. Schism: second congress of social democrats: schism. Lenin: define membership strictly: lenin wins after bund walks out (unrelated issues, lenin forms "bolsheviks" (majority)
