Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
February 25 general strike. February 26, rebellion in the barracks. February 27,
provisional government, headed by Luov, Minister of War Kerensky. Emergence of
Soviet workers and soldiers. March 1917 abdication of the Tsar. Alternative form
s of government Tsarism: The interim government, bourgeois liberal, Western-st
yle parliamentary republic. The Soviets demanded a political solution more adv
anced. 4.2. Lenin's theory of revolution. April Theses: Socialist Revolution w
ith two fundamental premises, rejection of war and partition of land, to force t
he worker-peasant alliance. Rejection of any kind of cooperation with the Duma.
Lenin adapted Marxism to the conditions of the Russian empire. Works: 1901
What to do? Definition of the party that could lead a revolution. A party of pr
ofessional revolutionaries. 1916 Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
The 1st GM imperialist conflict at the stage of financial capitalism that can o
pen the door to the revolution in Russia. 1917 The State and Revolution. Sets
the role of the soviets in the construction of socialism and the nature of the d
ictatorship of the proletariat. 4.3. The conservative shift and continuation of
the war. During 1917 the policy influenced by the war Respect for the milita
ry commitments to allies. Summer Offensive of 1917 caused the popular uprising
in Petrograd, June 3. Failure of the uprising and exile of Lenin. August 21,
occupation of Riga by the Germans. Confronting Kerensky (President) and Kornilov
(general). September 7 attempted coup Kormilov. Interim Government Response
and the Soviets. The initiative in the hands of the Soviets. 4.4. The Bolshevik
revolution of October. October 9, decision of armed insurrection (10 to 2).
October 15 creation of the Military Revolutionary Committee (Trotsky) sent 23
new regiments stationed in Petrograd Kerensky. 1924-1926 Take the Winter Pala
ce. Kerensky fled. November 2 the Soviets take control of Moscow. months fol
lowing occupation of cities, but large parts are still under the control of the
former authorities. Prolegomena to the civil war. 4.5. The Bolsheviks in power.
26 first administration of Commissioners established the town. Chaired by Leni
n with Trotsky, Rykov, Lunatcharski and Stalin. Government Actions: Problem (d
istribution) of land, peace firm and the monopoly of political power. Decree 1
: distribution of land to poor farmers. After a year of war ended with a policy-
based requisition decrees instituting the socialist ownership. Withdrawal of t
he war with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 3), 1918. Russia lost huge tracts
, but the prevailing view of Lenin to save the revolution at any price. Allied a
rgument for further intervention. To ensure the Bolshevik power was removed by
the bourgeois parties and then among themselves soviets (Bolsheviks, Social Rev
olutionaries and Mensheviks) Elections to the Constituent Assembly. Bolsheviks
in the minority (Menshevik majority) January 6, 1918 dissolution of the Assem
bly by the government. Finally achieved the hegemony of the Bolsheviks. In a
ll power to the Soviets, he spent the entire power to the Communists. Disappeara
nce of Mensheviks, SRs and anarchists. July 1918 final constitution of the Soc
ialist Federal Republic and Soviet Russia, based on the dictatorship of the prol
etariat.
II. CONSTRUCTION OF THE SOVIET UNION.
1. The early years. 1.1. The Civil War.
Item 8. The Russian Revolution
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1918 The revolution had triumphed only in urban and industrial centers. Huge are
as controlled by the counterrevolutionary civil war. Division of Bolshevik Russi
a from an area (organized) and a counter divided by Czarist, Provisional Governm
ent advocates and dissidents from the October Revolution. White Army in Siberi
a, the Volga, the Caucasus, Ukraine, the Baltic and the North, with the help of
British troops, French, American and Japanese. Answers Bolsheviks war communis
m (nationalization of industry and socialization of the field) and creation of t
he Red Army by Trotsky. Foreign intervention by spreading revolution, disinteg
ration of the Russian empire. Ended in 1919. 1920 initiative by the Red Army,
shipment of the remains of the white army in the autumn of 1920 in Crimea. 1.2.
The consequences of civil war. Impaired plans Lenin: War Communism need, suppr
ession of dissent, foreign intervention, the failure of revolution in Europe.
Lenin envisaged the cooperation with other leftist forces, particularly with the
Socialist by its implementation in the field. In economics war communism war so
lution, as Lenin had foreign capital and technology. 1.3. The problem of nationa
lities. Russia a conglomeration of languages, religions and cultures. Admiss
ion to the principle of self-determination to spread communism worldwide. Sinc
e 1918, federal structure, sanctioned by the constitution of 1923 which formed t
he USSR. Russian Republic, Ukraine and Belarus, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in 1
924. Taykistán 1929. Self-government of the republics, but Russian predominanc
e. With Stalin political centralization, Tsarist Russification practices by ma
ssive population displacements. 1.4. The revolution broke out worldwide. For L
enin the Russian Revolution the first step of world revolution, the next step in
Germany. Third International of 1919, Zinoviev. The Russian revolution isolat
ed in their struggle against counterrevolution and foreign intervention. 2. The
period of the NEP. 1921 terminates the civil war. Until 1928 most constructi
ve period (it is creating a new state) but contradictory. (The positions of the
creators of the state are facing). Examples: centralization of power (in the
hands of the Communists) or democratization of the state in building socialism.
Economically, slow transition or acceleration of the process (following the p
hases of the civil war). 2.1. The New Economic Policy (NEP). 1921. balance of
the civil war: The state is about 1913 one third of agricultural production, 13%
of industrial production, 12% of rail traffic. In addition there are still outb
reaks of social protest. Planning of a New Economic Policy. NEP. Mixed (capi
talist and socialist) allowed the existence of rural private property (to supp
ly the cities and gain support among the peasants). Incorporation of market me
chanism (free prices for certain products). Reconstruction of the money supply
(overcoming hyperinflation). denationalization of small enterprises. Certai
n doses of self-management in large companies. 1926 The Soviet economy had rec
overed but: Increase the differences in the field (the kulaks.) hoarding and
supply problems. Reconstruction of capitalism. Struggle for power after Len
in's death. 2.2. The debate within the culture. To know only the struggle betw
een the avant-garde and social realism.