POLS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Leonid Brezhnev, Vladimir Lenin, Cuban Missile Crisis
26 Aug 2016
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October 28th, 2015: russian politics, history of absolutism a. i. Little access to industrialization, the renaissance, or the reformation: efforts to europeanize russia by peter the great c. i. Building a new capital at st. petersburg from moscow, adopting the use of. French, asking men to remove their beards c. i. 1. a. St. petersburg on baltic, connect to trade c. ii. Russia was still a nation of poor peasants living in a feudal system d. ii. The czarist system (monarchy) fell when it was unable to deal with the stress of wwi: russian revolution of 1917 e. i. After 8 months of civil war (red v whites) under a provisional government in 1917, vladimir lenin came to power e. ii. Russia was not where a communist revolution was supposed to occur according to karl marx it had a small working class: vladimir lenin f. i. Saw the party as a movement for the revolution f. ii.
