POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Statism
26 Oct 2012
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The peasantry in russia were illiterate and therefore could not read the great masters. A working class that did not yet exist (working class emerges with the creation of industry: there was a working class revolution with a small working class. Lenin may have understood the world through a theoretical marxist perspective, but the solutions he implemented were not functional. Russia was one of the most backward countries in europe. In 1917, the country was immersed in the world war and revolution: the tsar was eliminated, new parties emerged, chaos consumed the country, and lenin and his revolutionary bolsheviks seized power. The world revolution that had been predicted failed to materialize. It was thus decided that to be a communist was to support the soviet union. If you are a communist, you must pledge allegiance to the communist state; this was russia and any state that joined it. A georgian; can speak russian, but has an accent.
