HIS351Y1 Lecture : Lecture Notes
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Alright so y pipes book is for 1900-1917: harvard prof one of the greatest profs of the past while. he is very much to the right. Not as much to the left as pipes is to the right, but still y learn to separate fact from slant imagine pipes calling lenin a coward. Started very soon after seizure of power by. Bolsheviks in fall 1917 y pretty obvious that civil war would follow had support of 50-60% of working class, but this was a small group. Three phases y 1917-18 y second stage begins in late 1918 and lasts until 1919 y third stage more or less one year. First stage: there is some fighting, but small scale, not big armies y spring 1918: the czechoslovak legion, who had been fighting for the central powers but were captured by russia, volunteered in.
