HIST-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Kulak, Operations Management, Totalitarianism
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Not enough food: nicholas at war b. i. Wife in charge: grigori rasputin (that messed up guy that wouldn"t die) c. i. Soldiers joined civilians: durma forms provisional gov (temporary) b. i. Begins writing constitution: nicholas ii forces to abdicate. Prov gov: leader = alexander kerensky, reforms b. i. Only 1% of russian pop: lenin b. i. Create revolution in nation of illiterate peasants! b. ii. Czarist russia = weak link of capitalism b. iii. Nov rev: war bad for russia a. i. No more people support: bolsheviks ( majority ) took over gov (lenin = head, lenin creates dictatorship of the proletariat c. i. For rev against capitalism: l promises peace, bread and land . Most land = mandates (brit or french) a. ii. Nats needed to create a nation-state before allies broke up turkey a. iii. Republic of turkey (19230: mustafa kemal ataturk b. i. Iran (persia: 1906 shah forced to create constitution, reza khan (military officer) replaces shah, pahlavi dynasty, reforms d. i.
