HIST 2021 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Petrograd Soviet, Winter Palace, Alexander Kerensky
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Peasant commune: village communities of the peasantry, based on shared ownership. Were often repartitioned to accommodate new and growing families. The peasants shared collective responsibility for taxes, military drafts, etc. Revolutionists as the basis for a transition directly to russian socialism. After the revolution was winding down in 1906-1907, stolypin wanted to strengthen the social basis of the state by destroying the peasant communes. The peasants were free to leave the commune and were encourage to resettle elsewhere. Bolsheviks: at the second congress of the russian social democratic labour party in. 1903, the social democrats were split into two groups, one being the bolsheviks headed by vladimir lenin. In 1905, the bolsheviks led the bloody uprising in moscow. Between 1913-1914, the bolsheviks gained the majority control of the governing boards of trade unions in st. petersburg and moscow, and their influence in the capitals became much greater than that in the provinces.
