HIS - History HIS 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ten Days, Leon Trotsky, Bed Sheet
9 Sep 2013
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This lecture is a bfd, sets up the basic issue of the 20th century, a struggle between the competing ideologies of democracy, communism and fascism. And it all began in russia, in 1917. Last place where monarchy/royal family has real control, complex, beauracratuc structure gradually undergoing change. 1905- the people strike and protest for reform, certain the political structure lost the war. Nicholas ii grants conscessions, a russian parliament- the duma. Peter stolypin pushes series of reform to modernize russia. The biggest problem is the distribution of land ,to aid this he redistributes to 2 million farmers, but it is not enough. 1911-stolypin is assassinated and his reforms shoved under the rug. Mew group led by vladimir ullyich ulganov (lenin). He was born to middle class parents, and unruly child with a mean streak, but reaaaaaallly good at history. Brother plots to assassinate czar and is executed.
