2.
Russia had the fastest
growth rate of all of the Great
Powers of Europe.
Industrial workers, worked 12
to 14 hours a day for low pay,
in unhealthy, and unsafe
conditions.
The workers had no avenue
to seek change.
MOVING TOWARDS REVOLUTION
3. RISE OF POLITICAL PARTIES
Reform movements evolve
into formal, organized
political parties.
Russian Social Democratic
Workers’ Party, or Social
Democrats was founded in
1898.
1905: Constitutional
Democratic Party is founded
The Socialist Revolutionary
Party was founded in 1901.
5.
The political and economic theories of Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed
by their followers to form the basis for the
theory and practice of communism.
Method of societal analysis
based on attention to classrelations and societal conflict.
Lenin did not agree with
theses views.
MARXISM
6.
Lenin believed pure
Marxism didn’t apply to
Russia.
Marxism interrupted and
applied by Lenin.
Shaped the Bolshevik
party
LENINISM
