Western Civilization II / Unit 11 WC2 1024 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lenin's Context: Marx Plus Russian Terrorism
Captions available
The idea
By the eighteen eighties terrorist groups existed and radical intellectuals expected revolution. Lenin's Bolsheviks joined Marx's doctrine to that Russian tradition of conspiracy and violence, and realized it in nineteen seventeen. The anchor's point: Russian Marxism grew from a police state, not a factory floor.
In practice
Marx synthesized with Russian radical terrorism.
Where people slip
Nineteen seventeen belongs to unit fifteen.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it