History 1401E Lecture 14: Soviet Union
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Cheka yk nkud kgb: secret police in soviet union. Bolsheviks and mensheviks: used to be combined until a con ict arose and the two parties separated, bolsheviks use of force // majority after split, mensheviks democratic means and institutions through elections // minority after split. Proletariats were the people of the state the citizens, working class: marxism, communists believed in classes, proletariat was two layers // workers (main class) and peasants. Stakhanovite did more than he really needed to, sparking a movement of people wanting to work more to gain more results and ful ll the claim by more than 100: late 1920s movement. Kautsky criticizes the bourgeoisie democracy, parliamentary system, and the press: lenin used hobson"s text and his formulation of imperialism in his own works, kulak st, named kulak if you are an exploiter. The fact that a peasant had some sort of primary education was unusual, as peasants were usually illiterate.