HIS351Y1 Lecture Notes - Left Socialist Revolutionaries, War Communism, Mensheviks
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Workers = rights, political control: superstructure = bolsheviks, base = proletariat. Bolsheviks won: t: terror, r: class division. War communism: t: leap into communism, r: emergency response. Legacy: t: proof of bolshevik desires, r: formative experience. "breathing space: before civil war, bourgeois people still pissy about the bolsheviks in power, no government outside russia likes the bolsheviks, other parties were kicked out of government by the bolsheviks. Left srs, march 1918 (uprising in july 1918 after brest-litovsk) Mensheviks and soviet srs, june 1918: left sr wanted to assassinate the german ambassador to restart a war with. Food shortage continues: tried to control grain/food/consumer products --> failed, formed a food commissariat that did nothing because they couldn"t. Nationalization: slow until july 1918 because there"s concern for big industries. Marxist contradictions: land to peasants vs. bread to city workers, nationalization vs. syndicates. National self-determination: germany wanted puppet states therefore didn"t want independent referendums.
