CGS SS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Slavophilia, Mensheviks

• School: Boston University
• Department: Social Sciences
• Course: CGS SS 201
• Professor: June Grasso

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Ss 201 exam 1: reform by the tsars. Intelligentsia: refers to the group of intellectuals who are the bulk of the reformers, thinkers, people who influence policy, 2 groups, slavophiles (cid:862)wester(cid:374)ers(cid:863)--> everyone from the constitutional parties all the way to lenin/socialists. The(cid:455) refused to let western culture influence their country. Russia will be of great power, there will still be tsar. Identified as a marxist (cid:862)father of russia(cid:374) mar(cid:454)is(cid:373)(cid:863) Introduced stalin and others to the idea of marxism. In favor of a marxist revolution for russia (eventually: was the founder of the social-democratic movement, he worked to attempt to overthrow the tsarist government, peer of lenin, was eventually silenced by lenin. First leader of the soviet union rapidly around the world. Russian social democratic party -- a party that for(cid:373)ed i(cid:374) 1(cid:1012)(cid:1013)(cid:1012) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)as a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g russia"s earliest revolutionary movements, though by no means the first. In 1903, the rsdlp split into two factions, the.