HIST 1007 Lecture : 3/28 The Creation Of Communist States And Parties (Lecture Notes)
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3/28 the creation of communist states and parties. Introduction: communism emerged out of ww1, global movement until 1989, provided legitimate competitor to capitalism, marx predicted communism in advanced, western states, opposites happens, in places like russia and china places without industry. Oppose separate sphere ideolog: believe women can be in the work place just like man, nationalism is stupid, distraction from your depression, racial equality, atheist. "dictatorship of the proletariat : the russian revolution, russia can"t handle total war, total war is when and entire socirty is geared towards the war. Neither does russia: used to create new states in eastern europe (ex. Poland: russian rev: civil war, 1819: russia descends into civil war, very bloody: 10 million die, reds vs. Whites: reds=bolsheviks, whites=liberal, tsarist, literal and other, u. s britain, japan supports whites, hebert hoover goes over to russia, reds win, 1922: soviet union established. Aka u. s. s. r or soviet russia: but contains many nationalities.
