HISTORY 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Magnitogorsk, Sergey Kirov, Stakhanovite Movement
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Marx"s ideology went from being a wc movement to official ideology of rus from marx"s own perspectv, rus was least likely to have a communist revolution least industrialized, super rural, tiny proletariat/virtually no bourgeoisie. Russia had unique conditions, from which a diff kind of revolutionary trajectory was possible. West eur: communists found themselves allied w/ labor to ameliorate excesses of indrev. Rus communists decided to leap over indrev altogether. Mid-19c, rus is eur"s largest country based on contiguous land. But more complicated - rus is an empire, just looks more like 1 country. 70mill ppl in 1850 - only 5% live in towns. Overwhelmingly agric, mainly makes grains and furs. Small group of elites lives in main cities; enormous pop of unfree serfs. Beyond rise of rus nationalism, other polit changes hadn"t reached rus - still autocratic regime run by tsars, who"d established most effective secret police force in eur.
