DVM2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Winter Palace, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro
20 Aug 2016
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Major goal of intelligencia was to get out of simbirsk. Tsar nikolas snuffed out any democratic reform. Did anything they could to hold back political expression. Brother alexander was hanged for constructing a bomb made for the tsar. Head of the family at 17; special police watching him since he was the brother of a convicted terrorist. Been singled out by the same repressive system that executed his older brother. Began to read books that inspired his brother. What is to be done by chernesevsky: Young people who are dedicated to help russia need to improve and strengthen themselves to take charge of russia"s future. There seemed to be no one to count on (start to count on yourself) Marx believed communism would happen in an industrialized nation. Rejected russia as a site for revolution since it was so undeveloped. Lenin rewrote this to say the peasantry should lead the russian masses.
