HIST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eurocentrism, Austria-Hungary, Saint Petersburg
7 Feb 2018
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Led example for other societies in the world that are catching up to the west other countries (post-colonial. Africa and egypt) drew on soviet revolution to catch up: russia"s expansion causes geopolitical tensions when bumping into other expanding empires (manchuria, austria- Hungary, ottomans: 1905 revolution, triggered by russian-japanese war, led to an opining for temporary government formation of soviets (socialist councils of workers and peasants) Soviet (october) revolution of 1917 - 1989: in the middle of wwi, russian army sorely under supported against germany army - linked to actual shortages in. Russian economy loss of 1m soldiers in 1916 leads to strikes/mass demonstrations of soldiers, tsar orders repression, soldiers start supporting revolution: revolution continues for decades in context of war and confrontation (ex. Soviets return to government, june 1917-18 in petrograd, becoming organizational structure for revolution and emerging state the revolution is termed audaciously ultra-modern : internal violence associated with revolution engineered famines, gulags (work camps), forced migrations.
