MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Pyotr Lavrov, Al-Qaeda, List Of Russian Rulers

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Steven Dennis Cassedy

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Mmw 14 lecture 22 lenin and the russian revolution. Slaves treated as individual people, families broken up. Serfs lived in families on the land for generations. Intelligentsia: those who were at the vanguard of intellectual activity; to be in the group, you had to be from the upper classes, or from the middle classes and get a higher education: mostly wealthy landowners. Let(cid:859)s repay our debt to the peasantry (cid:862)criti(cid:272)ally thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals(cid:863) Individuals have the power to move history in a new direction: compare: marxism history moves according to its own laws, leaves doubt whether individuals can shape history. Find things wrong with the russian social system. Former serfs still struggling in squalor, many of them much worse off under serfdom: need to change the system radically. If intellectuals came up with ideas, they could lead the peasantry in advancing their interests: recommending leader-centered movement.