IAH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Petrograd Soviet, Mensheviks, Saint Petersburg
18 Oct 2016
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The collapse of government: rasuputin ass, refusal of receiving assistance from russian middle class, total mismanagement during wartime. The two revolutions in 1917: march rvolution (march 12)(according to western calendar, november revolution. Duma declared itself a provisional government on march 12th. Was similar to the moderate phase of the french revolution. Had trouble keeping control- workers on strike, soldiers deserting, peasants appropriating land. Follow closely the ideas of karl marx. Revolution is inevitable but it has stages. Russia had not gone through capitalist phase. Needed to wait for the communist revolution. Hardline revolutionaries they would carry out the revolution. War had created special circumstances imperialism. Lenin said the socialism was merely a state-capitalist monopoly which is made to serve the whole people . His early years exiled to siberia in 1897. Moved to london in 1902 and befriended leon trotsky. Sent back to russia by germans in 1917 to destabilize regime. Lenin steps into the vacuum of provisional government.
