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    Socialism in

    Europe and
    the Russian
    Revolution
    Contents
    • The Age of Social Change
    • The Russian Revolution
    • The February Revolution in Petrograd
    • What changed after October ?
    • The Global Influence of the Russian Revolution and the
    USSR
    1.1 The Age of Social Change
    • The French Revolution opened up the possibility if
    creating a dramatic change in the way in which society
    was structured.
    • In many parts of the world including Europe and Asia,
    new ideas about individual rights and who controlled
    social power began to be discussed.
    • Not everyone in Europe, however , wanted a complete
    transformation of society. Responses varied from those
    who accepted that some change was necessary but
    wanted a gradual shift , to those wanting a radical
    restructuring of society.
    Liberals , Radicals and
    Conservatives
    EUROPE

    Liberals
    Conservative Radicals
    LIBERALS
    RADICALS
    CONSERVATIVES
    1.3 The Coming of Socialism to
    Europe
    Robert Owen (1771 – 1858) sought to
    build a cooperative community called
    New Harmony in Indiana (USA)

    Louis Blanc (1813 – 1882) wanted the


    Government to encourage cooperatives and
    replace capitalist enterprises.

    Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895)


    added other ideas . Marx argued that industrial society was
    capitalist. Workers had to construct a radically socialist
    society to free themselves from capitalist exploitation.

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    1.4 Support for Socialism
    2.0 The Russian Revolution

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    2.1 The Russian Empire in 1914

    Tsar Nicholas II

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    2.2 Economy & Society
    2.3 Socialism in Russia

    Vladimir
    Lenin
    2.4 A Turbulent Time : The 1905
    Revolution
    • Russia was an autocracy. The Tsar was not subject
    to parliament.
    • The Liberals together with the Social Democrats
    and Socialist Revolutionaries worked with the
    peasants & workers during the revolution of 1905
    to demand a Constitution.
    • They were supported by nationalists (in Poland for Bloody Sunday
    instance) and in Muslim dominated areas by
    jadidists who wanted modernised Islam to lead their
    societies.
    Causes

    Father
    Gapon
    Outcome

    Tsar Nicholas II’s opening


    speech before the state
    Duma in the Winter Palace.
    2.5 The First World War and the
    Russian Empire

    Russian soldiers
    during the First World
    War
    3.0 February Revolution in
    Petrograd
    3.1 After February
    3.2 The Revolution of October 1917

    Leon Trotskii

    Kerenskii
    4.0 What Changed after October
    ?
    4.1 The Civil War
    4.2 Making a Socialist Society
    4.3 Stalinism and
    Collectivisation

    Joseph Stalin
    Communist
    Internation
    al
    5.0 The Global Influence of the
    Russian Revolution and the USSR
    • Existing social parties in Europe did not wholly approve of the
    way the Bolsheviks took power and kept it.
    • However the possibilities of a workers’ state fired people’s
    imagination across the world.
    • In many countries , communist parties were formed, e.g.
    Communist Party of Great Britain.
    • Many non Russians from outside USSR participated in the
    Conference of the Peoples of the East (1920) and the Bolshevik –
    founded Comintern.
    • By 1950s it was acknowledged within the country that the style of
    Government in the USSR was not in keeping with the ideals of the
    Russian Revolution.
    • Its industries and agriculture had developed and the poor were being
    fed. But it had denied the essential freedoms to its citizens and
    carried out its developmental projects through repressive policies.
    • By the end of the 20th century , though the socialist ideals enjoyed
    respect among people but in each country the ideas of socialism
    were rethought in a variety of different ways.
    Thank You

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