HISTORY 3CG3 Lecture Notes - 1905 Russian Revolution, October Manifesto, Mensheviks
12 Apr 2014
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Origins of bolshevism: bolsheviks is the name given to a social democratic party left wing politicians/ intellectuals. 1903 london conference of russian social democrats: think and debate about how russia is going to move from autocracy to socialism, disagreements about how to proceed. Split during the conference between mensheviks (minority) and. Believes in a utopian classless society where everyone is equal and everything is equitable than it is now: capitalism has not collapsed because it is support by imperialism, marx believe that capitalism would crash. 1905 revolution: soviet in russian = worker"s council, workers in cities in russia form councils our goals are this, how are we going to get it, tsar nicholas ii responds with the october manifesto. Before: russia is slow to industrialize compared to the rest of europe. People can"t rise up, and revolution is hard: by 1915 russia is on the defensive.
