HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leninism, Liberal Democracy, Absolute Monarchy
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Educated upper class (a. 2. a. 1) most refined, sophisticated class in all of europe (a. 2. a. 1. a) fluent in french (a. 2. a. 2) knows latest ideas, latest trends (a. 2. a. 3) produces some of the greatest literature (a. 2. a. 3. a) tolstoy (a. 2. a. 4) greatest music. Vast majority of the population is poor peasants (a. 2. b. 1) cut-off from what"s going on in europe. Moscow and st. petersburg however have large scale industry. Building industry to have strength against the west (to keep up with the west. : produces angry land-hungry peasant farmers and angry industrial workers, enormous contrast. Russia"s wwi: of all countries in war, russia is least prepared. People don"t identify with russia or the monarchy. Largest army, but lacks sufficient weapons and ammunition: germany has 3x the artillery pieces, russian soldiers don"t have much ammunition. Spring 1915, 4 shells per day: general crisis of russian state. Mutiny in the army, people are not showing up for draft. Cost of living goes up 300%, wages 100%
