Pre Bolshevik Revolution Flashcards
1
Q
What was the Communist manifesto (1848)?
A
It laid out Marx and Engels dialectical (how history progresses logically) theory of history.
2
Q
What type of government was the tsarist government?
A
An autocracy = when one person has absolute power
3
Q
In Marx’s view, how did societies naturally progress?
A
Fuedalism to capitalism to socialism to communism. He believed in economic dsterminism. The idea that the exploitation of the proletariat under capitalism leads to an inevitable communist revolution.
4
Q
Why could the bolsheviks, mensheviks and SRs not agree?
A
Bolsheviks wanted to jump from capitalism to communism, skipping socialism
