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1
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two stages of Russian revolution

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1) overthrow of czarist autocracy

2) when Bolsheviks took power

2
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stage one of Russian revolution

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  • first strikes in Petrograd, women protested lack of bread and coal, and government troops gave away weapons to strikers
  • development of soviets
  • Lenin returns from Switzerland and says “peace, bread, and land”
3
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stage two of Russian revolution

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  • armed Bolsheviks and regular army took over Petrograd with little to no bloodshed
  • Lenin becomes first leader of soviets
4
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dynamics of communist Russia

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  • established highly centralized, non-democratic regime with Lenin as central leader.
  • Power lay with Communist Party, not with Soviets.
5
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did reds or whites win the Russian civil war

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reds

6
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five year plan

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  • was basically crash industrialization
  • very successful, but a lot of suffering
  • aim was to take surplus from rich and give to the poor, but then people just killed all of their cattle so no one could have it. leading to a famine
7
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what does Stalin embrace

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extreme nationalism

8
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kulaks

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  • slightly better off than peasants

- lost their land and sent to Siberian labor camps

9
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great famine

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Between 5 and 6 million deaths, over half of them in the Ukraine. Unrecorded in the Soviet press.

10
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how did Russian revolution differ from Marxists theory

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1) It happened in Russia, not in industrialized Britain or Germany
2) It established a “Dictatorship of the PARTY” instead of a “Dictatorship of the PROLETARIAT”
3) It established a “totalitarian state” rather than ushering in a “withering away of the state.”
4) Under Stalin, nationalism was brought back and Marx had been against nationalism

11
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why did communist Russia turn out so poorly

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  • it DID turn Soviet Union into a soviet power
  • industrial workers and intellectuals had a brutal fate thanks to the famine
    1) Marxists theories were implemented without democracy
    2) Leaders literally only cared about power
    3) No democracy and lots of poverty