POLB92H3 Lecture : POLB92 Tutoriall
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Polb92: revolutions, democracy and authoritarianism in modern europe > tutorial. Russian revolution = first social revolution, it was very surprising for many observers. It was surprising for marx and marxist because within boundaries there shouldn t be a socialist revolution in russia but, there was. Before the revolution russia was: a feudal society, it was a great power mostly among military grounds, it was quite late for them to break away from feudalism. The peasants only escaped their bonds in 1816 which was considered quite late also, russia was late in industrial revolution and also the government took actions to further industrial revolution- tiny development. Social composition of the russians = the way of life in the villages in russia. Feudalism ended in 1816, the peasants still did not own their own land. Mir aka village council = land was distributed among peasant households and they were worked on collectively.
