Word: revolutionization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Finland Station in Leningrad is the place where Lenin got off the train on the night of April 3, 1917, to take charge of the Russian revolution. There in the cold, draughty Tsar's Room of the depot, he stood looking uncomfortable while newly elevated bigwigs welcomed him...
Every Finn looked not so much to General Osterman as to the greatest of living Finnish commanders, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, 72, now National Defense Council President, who remained quietly at Helsinki. In the sporadic fighting between the Finnish Army and the Red Army in the months...
"Everything that happened in Russia during the Revolution was repeated. They fought against the power of the toilers. . . . Many Catholic priests with arms in hand tried to protect the capitalists' domination of the workers.
History. Karl Marx believed and taught that the industrial proletariat was inherently revolutionary, that its numbers and miseries would increase, that its conflict with the capitalist class would intensify, that eventually it would be able to overthrow the "bourgeoisie," and that, after the revolution, classes would disappear in a new...
Parkes demonstrates that by 1914 the working class had almost universally developed a tradeunion, not a revolutionary, point of view; that the stronger the union movement became, the less revolutionary were its purposes; that the proletariat's size was reduced by machinery, its miseries by reform. Seeing all this...