HISTORY 3570 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Appeasement, Totalitarianism, Proletariat
20 Jan 2016
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Totalitarianism, the great depression, appeasement, and the road to war. But yugoslavia and other eastern european countries really mixed. Europe in 1921: poland is independent country, polish corridor . But it"s germany territory, only city was danzig: sudentenland: Much of population was german, who were discriminated against: the saar, germany: Weren"t certain who wont the war militarily. No british, america, etc. troops marching through berlin. Lenin, the bolsheviks and october revolution: theory and practice: When industrial workers were squeezed too hard by nobility or at least so says marx. Lenin says: working party that leads the proletariat: lenin in wwi: Germans moved him back to undermine the czar"s government: peace, bread, and land , reds versus whites. Everyone wanted this philosophy not more war. Leon trotsky"s leadership that lead to reds winning. Lenin also wanted the ussr to become an industrial base. Europe and the world in the wake of allied victory: chaos in germany.
