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"A revolution in wartime means civil war; the conversion of a war between governments into a civil war is, on the one hand, facilitated by military reverses ("defeats") of governments; on the other hand, one cannot actually strive for such a conversion without thereby facilitating defeat."
What is The Defeat of One's Own Government in the Imperialist War?
First, they went to the peasants to make revolution, but that didn't work. Then, they assassinated the tsar, which also didn't work!
Who are the Narodniks?
Spurred on by the development of imperialism, this event in 1914 changed conditions for revolutionaries across the world in an instant.
What is World War 1?
The Bolsheviks maintained that this group required discipline, high unity, and secrecy, while the Mensheviks denied it.
What is the vanguard party?
This revisionist fashioned himself a centrist, and in the struggle for how the Party should position itself in relation to the Duma he called for "Unity!" between the Liquidators and the Recallists.
Who is Trotsky?
"We could not have retained power politically on July 3-4 because, before the Kornilov revolt, the army and the provinces could and would have marched against Petrograd. Now the picture is entirely different. We have the following of the majority of a class, the vanguard of the revolution, the vanguard of the people, which is capable of carrying the masses with it."
What is Marxism and Insurrection?
After the February Revolution these scoundrels worked to put political power in the hands of the Bourgeoisie in the form of the Provisional Government.
Who are the Mensheviks?
This revolution overthrew the Provisional Government.
What is the October Revolution?
This military strategy prescribes taking swift action, capturing lines of communication and transportation, and starting from the cities.
What is insurrection?
Born in 1870, this this comrade wrote the Development of Capitalism in Russia.
Who is Lenin?
"We have stated that the essence of this programme is to organise the class struggle of the proletariat and to lead this struggle, the ultimate aim of which is the conquest of political power by the proletariat and the establishment of a socialist society."
What is Our Programme?
Is the path to revolution and class consciousness solely through the struggle for higher wages and better working conditions? These types of revisionists would answer yes.
Who are Economists?
In this year, the first attempt at revolution failed, but birthed the first Soviets of Workers Deputies and taught the RSDLP many other lessons they took with them in preparation for the later Revolution in 1917.
What is 1905?
These two movements start out separate, but must be fused in order to build up to a revolution against the bourgeoisie.
What are the working-class and communist movements?
This German renegade advocated for reform rather than revolution and despite his clear revisionism he gained a lot of popularity and sway in the Second International.
Who is Bernstein?
"The Russian Social-Democrats think it inopportune to send their forces among the handicraftsmen and rural labourers, but they do not in the least intend to ignore them; they will try to enlighten the advanced workers also on questions affecting the lives of the handicraftsmen and rural labourers, so that when these workers come into contact with the more backward strata of the proletariat, they will imbue them with the ideas of the class struggle, socialism and the political tasks of Russian democracy in general and of the Russian proletariat in particular."
What is Tasks of the Russian Social-Democrats?
Were they really siding with the "Fatherland", or just with their own bourgeoisie? This trend became relevant during the first World War.
What is Revolutionary Defensism?
In 1898 this took place -- and despite all participants being arrested, it marked a turning point for the development of a real Party in Russia.
What is the first Congress of the RSDLP
If you take a concrete, well-known example of an injustice, and help an audience link it to one broader idea about how society works, you're doing this.
What is agitation?
This minister of the Tsar wreaked havoc on the worker's organizations and broke up communes in the countryside with his 'Agrarian Reform Law' following the defeat of the 1905 Revolution.
Who is Stolypin?
"In every country there has been a period in which the working-class movement existed apart from socialism, each going its own way; and in every country this isolation has weakened both socialism and the working-class movement. Only the fusion of socialism with the working-class movement has in all countries created a durable basis for both."
What is The Urgent Tasks of Our Movement?
An alliance with these academic types was necessary to combat Narodnism, but their censor-approved literature quickly made distorted versions of Marxism very popular.
Who are the Legal Marxists?
In 1861, the Tsar issued a decree declaring this, and doing so helped spur on the rapid development of capitalism in Russia. Hint: think back to that first chapter of CPSU(B).
There are two conditions for a successful socialist revolution. The first is that “the lower classes do not want to live in the old way." The second condition is this.
What is, the upper classes are unable to rule in the old way"?
This comrade waged the first struggles against Narodnism in Russia yet had to live most of his life abroad.
Who is Plekhanov?