Russian Revolution: Causes, Timeline & Bolsheviks
The Bolshevik revolution in Russia led to the establishment of the world's first communist regime. Marxist communism like socialism was a critique of liberalism based on enlightenment principles. Drawing from Karl Marx's ideas about the inevitability of the worker's revolution, the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic party, Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924), reformulated Marxist theory by arguing that only a vanguard party of intellectuals and activists could lead the workers to revolutionary victory.
Added on 2022-08-24
Russian Revolution: Causes, Timeline & Bolsheviks
The Bolshevik revolution in Russia led to the establishment of the world's first communist regime. Marxist communism like socialism was a critique of liberalism based on enlightenment principles. Drawing from Karl Marx's ideas about the inevitability of the worker's revolution, the leader of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic party, Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924), reformulated Marxist theory by arguing that only a vanguard party of intellectuals and activists could lead the workers to revolutionary victory.
Added on 2022-08-24
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