RUSSIAN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: 1905 Russian Revolution, Mensheviks, Communism
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Throw out capitalism and throw out rule of working class. Arrested many times during his revolutionary work. He was abroad and published a newspaper that smuggled back to russian. Not everyone agreed on one path to follow. Everyone had diff ideas on how to bring about change. Problems got worse overcrowding in cities. Russia should have been able to beat japan but japan beat them. Workers went to march and asked the tsar for better working conditions. Bloody sunday: but the tsar got scared and opened fire on the peaceful protestors. Reforms did take place after the japanese war and bloody sunday. This forced the tsar to step down. Tsar stepped down and a provisional government was set up. Lenin was smuggled back into russia with the aids of the. November 7, 1917 bolsheviks took over key positions in. Lenin arrived in finland -- gave a famous speech about people needing bread and land.
