ENGL 338 Chapter Notes - Chapter page 48-53: Mensheviks
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A history of the soviet union: the political system by kenez (1917) the bolsheviks thought their revolution would end world capitalism; obviously it didn"t. But their revolution was special because they didn"t transfer power from group to new group, but instead implemented a new, unseen political order: as marxists, they saw the nation as lagging behind europe and the west. But these organizations had no autonomy: the flaw with party rule was that it assumed all the soviet groups had the same interests, the youth party organization, the komsomol, taught children soviet politics; a sort of. Party training ground: during the nep era, the economic and social unrest were dying down.