GENED 120 Lecture 14: Week 7 Notes
2 Mar 2017
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Imperialism was evil: at (cid:862)highest stage of (cid:272)apitalis(cid:373)(cid:863, cause of wwi (countries competing for territory, raw material and labor, peace. Lenin would withdraw russian forces from fighting in the war: land. Land would be taken away from all russians and redistributed evenly according to need: bread. Food would be distributed equally to all russians. Imperialism- revolution in russian= prologue to worldwide revolution: russia is a weak link. Advanced enough not to be colonized itself, bit not to be a colonizer. Better to go communist/socialist since worldwide revolution inevitable. The (cid:862)bearshevik(cid:863) revolution: greedy western capitalist has taken from the russians. Stealing food from their children: they wanted to rise up and fight! Role of the party: proletariat-workers not revolutionary by nature. Cultivate political consciousness: (cid:862)co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)is(cid:373) is the po(cid:449)e(cid:396) of the o(cid:448)iets plus ele(cid:272)t(cid:396)ifi(cid:272)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) Challenges of reality: world war 1, under-developed, expansive country, lack of unity, communication, food supply. Peasant farming= ineffective, ideologically unsound, ussr needs workers: 1928-1933.
