Dates
Bolshevik Revolution
1917
Wrote Das Kapital
Karl Marx
Death by government
Democide
Middle class
Bourgeoisie
To be free from authority, restraint, and responsibility
Liberalism
U.S. Stock market crashes
1929
Ruler that westernizes Russia
Peter the Great
Public ownership of property for the purpose of eliminating want and providing for the needy
Socialism
Poor and enslaved
proletariat
The only knowledge we can know for sure is that which is based on observable facts.
Positivism
Great Depression/New Deal
1933
Tsar Liberator
Alexander II
A form of socialism committed to the violent
Communism
Elected legislative assembly
Duma
"war against morality"
pragmatism
The Communist Manifesto is written
1848
Tsar that issues pogroms
Alexander III
an elected legislative assembly in Russia
Duma
Secret police
Cheka
human behavior, thoughts, and emotions are predetermined
psychological determinism
The Fundamentals is published
1909-1915
Main organizer of the October Revolution
Leon Trotsky
"Death by Hunger"
Holodomor
Wealthier farmer peasants
Kulaks
"flight from reality"
existentialism