HIS 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Totalitarianism, Imperial Rule Assistance Association, Authoritarianism
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Africa, and british dominions of australia, new zealand, and canada. Proclaimed a socialist revolution for the soviets to overtake the february bourgeois revolution. Soviet russian signed the treaty of brest-litovsk, a peace treaty with the. Germans, acknowledging german victory on the eastern front. The bolsheviks relocated their government to moscow and set up a dicta- torship. Emergence of new nation-states put 25 million into states as eth- nic minorities. British and french responses to economic crises: britain and france retained their parliamentary systems but liberal democratic ideas were on the defense. Authoritarianism in russia: authoritarian regimes differed but all dislike left-wing dictatorship in soviet union. Union: stalin built a new social and political order by defining soviet or revolutionary so- cialism in opposition to capitalism, stalin"s socialism would have economic planning, full employment and outlaw. Italian fascism: disillusionment with war costs and fear that a communist takeover would occur in. Western europe like russia prompter violent political movements.
