HIST 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Trans-Siberian Railway, 1905 Russian Revolution, Autocracy
Document Summary
Distinctly middle class society: [merchants" small businessmen, doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, journalists, scientists, professionals. Women: in charge of the domestic sphere and managers of consumption (also in sales) (reproduction vs. production) Contract upper middle class: factory and mine owners, bankers, merchants > have income-yielding capital. Contrast lower: service sector of clerks, salespeople, bank tellers, hotel staff, secretaries, police, etc. Slow, halting reforms to keep up with social change. 1901 socialist revolutionary party (urban & agrarian/populist) Loss of russo-japanese war (eieio > international. Stolypin"s reforms to win over the peasants. Duman less and less democratic, less power. 1914 august > attacked by germany, quick defeats. March 8: international women"s day; peace and bread ; down with autocracy . Petrograd workers & soldiers form council ( soviet ) April: lenin arrives, theses (no bourgeois revolution necessary) 1917, oct > majority in petrograd and moscow soviets. Nov. 6-7 w/ trotsky: lenin seizes petrograd soviet; renamed themselves communists.
