GEOG 152 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Secret Police, Politicking With Larry King, Nikita Khrushchev
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Discussion questions for chapter 1 of streetlife (october 25) Trained to use a minimal amount of force. A unifying idea which people believed in. And a citizenry willing to defend it with equal violence. Paris in 1968 and why does this matter for how we remember the. 87-96: industrial westerns\ paris riots of may 1968: bored, hungry, middle-class students at nanterre university occupied an administration building, because they opposed the vietnam war and capitalism. Real reason behind the may riots: the students wanted less campus police, and more political spaces to organize: government gave in to the students" demands =workers riots came after. 29-33: russia had fewer cities, fewer factories, undeveloped banks/stock exchanges = slow industrial development, serfs were peasants who stayed in a lifetime of debt due to buying their freedom with loans. Only when workers were not serfs could cities really grow: 1892: russian economy opened up to foreign investment =
