Establishing Communist Party Control, 1917-24
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- Establishing Communist Control (1917-24)
- First World War
- Russia incapable of providing supplies & Tsar an incompetent leader.
- 1917 - economic crises, defeat of military & political mismanagement led to February Revolution
- Provisional Government set up after Tsar was overthrown
- The Provisional Government
- Series of reforms:
- Despotism replaced by a liberal system
- Democratic elections to form a new government
- Freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion.
- Problem: continued to fight in First World War
- Economy got worse - Lenin's message more popular
- Radical RSDLP member, Lenin, wanted a second revolution and end to WW1 - "Peace, Land & Bread"
- October 1917 - Bolsheviks had enough support to overthrow government.
- Lenin & Trotsky's coup.
- Series of reforms:
- Lenin's ideology
- Replace capitalism and imperialism with socialism
- Allow people to be free and equal
- Replace capitalism and imperialism with socialism
- The Marxist view of history
- Marx - German philosopher and revolutionary
- Believed workers should rise and destroy capitalism
- Theory of history: Primitive Communism-Classical Slavery- Feudalism- Capitalism
- Progress from one stage to another due to class conflict
- Believed capitalism would be replaced by socialism
- Marx - German philosopher and revolutionary
- The State and Revolution
- Marx's writing - no clear indication of how revolution should be carried out
- Background to Bolshevik Revolution
- People had no political right
- Weak economy - only 2.4 million of 140 million worked in large factories
- Growth of underground parties: Russian Social Democratic Labour's Party, Socialist Revolutionaries
- First World War
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