KEY ECONOMIC INFLUENCES CAPITALISM INDIVIDUALS & BUSINESSES INDIVIDUAL S SELF-INTEREST COMSUMER COMPETITION German Journalist Changes Economic Ideals in Europe German Journalist s Radical Ideas for Socialism German Journalist Published Ideas in 1848 Who owns Property & Production? Reasons why Progress Results Influences Distribution of Goods SOCIALISM COMMUNITY THE STATE COMMUNITY COOP FOR GOOD OF ALL ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF ALL KARL MARX MARXISM Communist Manifesto
KEY ECONOMIC INFLUENCES ACCORDING TO THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO CALLED THE HAVES CALLED THE HAVE NOT S BOURGEOISIE (Employers) PROLETARIAT (Workers) PREDICTIONS FOR THE FUTURE FACTORIES WOULD PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS THE LARGE WORKING CLASS WILL REVOLT ARTISANS PROLETARIAT CREATED BY WORKERS SHARING PROFITS STATE GOVERNMENT WILL BE REPLACED BY ECONOMIC EQUALITY CLASSLESS SOCIETY FINAL PHASE OF REDICAL SOCIALISM WILL BECOME COMMUNISM
KEY POLITICAL INFLUENCES POLITICAL CONTROLS UNDER CZAR ALEXANDER III FORM OF GOVERNMENT (In which he had all Power) ONLY ACCEPTABLE CHURCH ONLY ACCEPTABLE LANGUAGE AUTOCRACY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX RUSSIAN KEY RESTRICTIONS on SPEECH/WRITING FATE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS KEY MINORITY that was PERSECUTED CENSORSHIP SENT to SIBERIA Gulag JEWS
KEY POLITICAL INFLUENCES POLITICAL POLICIES UNDER CZAR NICHOLAS II PROGRAM LAUNCHED to BUILD UP RUSSIA INDUSTRIALIZATION GROWTH OF FACTORIES BRINGS NEW PROBLEMS 1. GRUELING WORKING CONDITIONS 2. EXTREMELY LOW WAGES (Salaries) 3. USE OF CHILD LABOR HIS GOVERNMENT OUTLAWED UNHAPPY WORKERS ORGANIZED LABOR UNIONS STRIKES
KEY POLITICAL INFLUENCES CZAR NICHOLAS POOR DECISIONS CAUSED CRISIS 1904 Russo-Japanese War 1905 Bloody Sunday Massacre 1914 Entered World War One
KEY POLITICAL INFLUENCES OTHER POLITICAL LEADERS INFLUENCED REVOLUTION She ran the Government during her Husband s absence Self proclaimed Holy Man Influenced her Political Decisions Revolutionary Leader planned to overthrow the Czar during 1900 s Czarina ALEXANDRA RASPUTIN Vladimir LENIN
MARXIST IDEALS OF THE REVOLUTION KARL MARX CONCERNING VLADIMIR LENIN Once an uprising has begun one must take Fight the offensive, Till the absolutely, End and without reservation, until the very end. The essence of a free press is reliable, reasonable, NO Censorship and moral. The censored press is nothing but a tool of tyranny. The wretchedness of Religion is that it is the Against opium of the people. Religion Those who indulge in Religion are ultimately lost. Christians preach cowardice, humility, Weakens & submission; therefore People weakening the resolve & power of the Proletariat. The emancipation of the Jews is not as Persecuted important as the emancipation the Jews of mankind from Judaism. The theory of Communism may be summed up into a single sentence. The Abolition of Capitalism. Destroy Capitalism Let the ruling class tremble at a Communist Revolution, because the Proletariat has nothing to loose and the whole world to win. World Domination REVOLUTION THE PRESS RELIGION CHRISTIANITY JEWS COMMUNISM COMMUNIST REVOLUTION Never play with revolution: Once you decide Fight to begin Till one, the you must End make your mind up to stay with it till the end. The press must not be permitted to abuse their Censorship authority. They must be censored unless they support the party Every man who occupies himself with religion, Against or agrees Religion with it teachings, Prostitutes himself in the worst way. Christianity is the Drug of the Weak, allowing the Bourgeoisie to enslave the hard working Proletariat. Weakens the People It is the Jewish Bourgeoisie who is our enemy, not the Jewish Worker. But together, they are both our enemies. Persecuted the Jews Communism is the revolutionary Destroy dictatorship of the Capitalism Proletariat against the Bourgeoisie (to defeat Capitalism). The struggle of the Proletariat will be determined by the fact that Russia will World become the Domination Largest and Strongest Population on the Globe.
TIMELINE OF EVENTS RUSSIAN MARXISTS SPLIT INTO TWO KEY GROUPS M A R C H 1 9 1 7 MENSHEVIKS and BOLSHEVIKS Protests became an Uprising WORKER S SLOGANS Revolutionaries Executed The DUMA Established Revolutionaries Formed Local Advisory Councils MARCH REVOLUTION 1. Down with Autocracy 2. Down with the War CZAR NICHOLAS & Family PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT SOVIETS
APRIL 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION TIMELINE OF EVENTS Germans supported return of key Leader Vladimir LENIN PEOPLE S RALLYING CRY FOR REVOLUTION All Power to the Soviets NOV 1917 Uprising of the Workers Took over the Government BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION BOLSHEVIK RED GUARDS MARCH 1918 Russian s Leave Major Conflict WORLD WAR ONE
TIMELINE OF EVENTS 1 9 1 8 Causes for widespread anger among Russians BOLSHEVIK MILITARY FORMED 1. Terms of the German Treaty 2. Violent Bolshevik Policies 3. Murder of the Royal Family THE RED ARMY to 1 9 2 0 BOLSHEVIK OPPONENTS FORMED Internal Conflict Erupted BOLSHEVIKS RENAMED PARTY THE WHITE ARMY RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR COMMUNIST PARTY (Because they believed they had reached the final phase of Marx s Radical Socialism)