ANTH 1557 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nicholas Ii Of Russia, Vladimir Lenin, October Revolution
Document Summary
Soviet legacies in euarsian research and current research trends. Resistance from tsar nicolas ii to move to constitutional monarchy. Civil war between the reds (soviets) and the whites (anti-communist forces) Vladimir lenin- led the 1917 revolution and then the ussr until his death in 1924. Joseph stalin- came to power in the mid-1920s. Marxist-leninism- political philosophy and self-proclaimed science that seeks to establish a socialist state and then develop it further into socialism and eventually communism. Communism- a classless social system with common ownership of the means of productions and with full social and economic equality of all members of society. Collectivism- value that is characterized by emphasis on cohesiveness among individuals and prioritization of the group over the self. Collectivization- policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms. Industrialization- process of accelerated building-up of the industrial potential of the. Goal: reduce the economy"s lag behind the developed capitalist states.
