HIST 020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Petrograd Soviet, Vanguardism, Upper Middle Class

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Socialist party that sought to reform government through political and peaceful. Despised tsarism and sought to overthrow whole system. Iii. the february and october (bolshevik) revolutions of 1917. Loss in world war 1 encouraged revolution. Duma plots against tsar and tsar shuts them down violently. Tsar is forced to concede 1917 when confronted by workers and peasants. April; exiled revolutionaries return back to russia; bolsheviks. Appealed to workers and farmers who were against the world war. Working class citizens to participate in russian political life. Encouraged world war ( was not popular: two centers of power. Lenin pulls out of the world war. Lenin and his red army steal food for citizens (requisition ) Whites fought amongst themselves (tsarist vs. kerensky) Huge famine due to revolutions and war. In urban areas, people suffered great losses. Lenin imposed tax kept for government and workers could sell excess. Lenin and trotsky send red troops and shut them violently.

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