SMART Notebook 8.0Apr 30 - 9:17 AMI. Interpretive Introduction Marxists Orthodox Revisionist Leninist Liberals Modernizers Conservatives Entropists Ideologues AccidentalistsApr 30 - 10:52 AMApr 30 - 10:53 AMLenin’s goal: · An authoritarian revolution: a rational alternative to chaos. · The deliberate and systematic application of force upon the ‘brute Eurasian masses’. · Institution of the Cheka and the Gulag · Brutality: the only way to overwhelm the forces of chaos threatening to pull the country apart. · Marxist Dogma: the new religion for the massesApr 30 - 10:53 AMStalin’s goal (from 1925 on) · Russia was 50 to 100 years behind the advanced industrial countries. We have to make up for this lag in 10 years or we will be crushed. · Agricultural collectivization and Mass industrialization (westernization by anti-western methods) · Suppression of ethnic and national diversity and replacing it with a sense of Soviet superiority. · Ruthless, wolfish paranoia feeds endless purges.Apr 30 - 9:19 AMII. 1905 Revolution Russo-Japanese War Bloody Sunday October Manifesto The DumaBolsheviks Social Revolutionaries Mensheviks Cadets OctobristsUsurpation of the DumaApr 30 - 9:20 AMIII. The February Revolution 1917 WWI Abdication of the Tsar (Mar 15)The Soviets Order #1 Lenin’s April Theses “All Power to the Soviets” “Land, Bread and Peace” July DaysApr 30 - 9:26 AMIV. The October Revolution 1917 Council of People’s Commissars Peace Initiative, land seizures, factory seizures, nobility abolished, Church suppressed, alphabet reformed, calendar reformed, Cheka established Suppression of Constituent Assembly Jan 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Mar 1918Apr 30 - 10:27 AMApr 30 - 9:26 AMV. The Civil War (1918-1921) Reds (Trotsky) v. Whites, Allies, Poland War Communism CominternApr 30 - 9:27 AMVI. The NEP 1921 One Step Backward Lenin’s Death 1924Apr 30 - 9:27 AMVII. Stalin Revolution Power Struggle Bukahrin v. Trotsky v. Stalin Socialism in One Country Five Year Plans Collectivization Purges