RUS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anna Politkovskaya, Scientific Socialism, Alexander Litvinenko
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Bolsheviks planned to create a new state and a new soviet person that would correct all of old russia"s inequities. Applied principles of scientific socialism a western import. They would establish the new order by. Redistributing wealth according to the marxist maxim as modified by the soviets. All this to be accomplished under the direction of the communist party. Communist party would be the leading guiding force of soviet society and the nucleus of its political system. New russia resembles old in many ways. Leaders hold public office only for personal gain. Don"t care about the concerns of the common person. Russia"s rulers, perceiving domestic unrest and political dissent as threats don"t hesitate to use force to maintain their authority. Russia surrounded by hostile or unstable powers secure its borders and extend its territorial reach with power concentrated at the center. In soviet era the state played even larger role in.
