HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Socialist Revolutionary Party, Social Democratic Labour Party Of Norway, Winter Palace
11 Apr 2018
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A system of ideas that is the basis of a political or economic system, a manner of thinking characteristic of a class or society: rooted in beliefs, ambitions, resentments, economics, hierarchies. Examples include liberalism, socialism, fascism: absolute monarchy divine right to rule, rich aristocracy living in splendor, majority of the population are impoverished peasants, also a small bourgeoisie middle class. The marxists: russian social democratic labour party, bolsheviks (majority, mensheviks (minority) (cid:862)dress rehearsal(cid:863) for (cid:1005)9(cid:1005)7, brought on by peasant unrest, desire for political reform and defeat in russo-japanese war of. Tsar forced to agree to a duma (parliament) Enormous loss of life: by 1916, war industries committee has transformed st. petersburg into an industrial centre, with 35% of the population as workers. Tsar ordered the local garrison to suppress the rebellion; they wavered: duma ordered to dissolve; they refuse and form a provisional government.
