HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Saint Petersburg, Leon Trotsky, Petrograd Soviet
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Wwi has been a disaster for the russian empire. Jan 1917: russia is governed by tsar, supported by elite-based parliament (duma) Mass protest forces tsar to abdicated when duma also loses faith in tsar (march 8: (february revolution) Worker-peasants form soviet (counsels that rep. the mass of the population, many are. By may, radical worker and peasant parties (except one) and elites agree to cooperate in. Coalition government: only one political party opposes this coalition headed by lenin who believed starting a communist revolution in russia would start a world communist revolution, the new normal only gets worse. By october there is only one radical alternative: lenin, the bolsheviks and the oct. revolution (nov. 7, 1917) Communism a government where people shared work fairly and were paid equally: comes from the latin word communis which means belonging to all. Emerges as an idea in the 19th century in settings that are industrializing.
