HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Petrograd Soviet, Vladimir Lenin, Old Bolshevik
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Introduction: struggled to defend itself against german and austro-hungarian attacks during the first. I"ll be using the dates of the gregorian/western calendar what most of the world uses today. February 1917: into this volatile situation, a third force came out in april 1917, the activist of the small radical situation known as bolsheviks who were led by vladimir. French revolution who believed he was the embodiment of the general will, in 1917. Lenin believed he was history"s agent and would lead russia to an inevitable classless utopia. Arming of the soviets: uprising was led by a general named kornilov, army unreliable, in desperation, government armed the worker s soviets, created "red. Bolsheviks in power: in new government was formed, called the soviet of the people"s commissars and all its ministers (commissars) were bolsheviks, genuinely democratic election was then held, deputies elected to a "constituent.