How Did Lenin Add To Imperialism
October 17, 2010
Chapter 17 (13-24) History Part II/B … Russian Revolution
Citation: from "A History of the Modern World" by R.R Palmer
13. Explain Lenin’s view on the “party”? Lenin’s view on the “party”: He demanded strong authority at the top, by which the central committee would determine the doctrine (or “party line”) and control personnel at all levels of the organization. He thought the party would strengthen itself by purges, expelling all but the most fundamental disagreements. He stood for the rigid reaffirmation of Marxian ideas and fundamentals- dialectical materialism and irreconcilable class struggle.
14. What did Lenin add to Marxism? He developed and transformed it into a first-rank element of Marxism certain theories of “imperialism” and of the “uneven development of capitalism, that is captilism that …show more content…
Describe the Reforms of Stolypin: His aim was to build up the propertied classes as friends of the state. He believed that a state actively supported by widespread private property had little to fear from doctrinaire intellectuals, conspirators, and emigrants. He therefore favored and broadened the powers of the provincial zemstvos, in which the larger landowners took part in administering local affairs. For the peasantry he put through legislation more sweeping than any since the Emancipation. He wanted to replace the ancient institution with a regime of private individual property. He abolished what was left of the redemption payments for which the mirs had been collectively rights and to leave the common at will. He authorized peasants to buy land freely from the communes, from each other, or from the gentry. He thus favored the rise of the class of “big farmers,” the later kulaks who obtained control of large tracts, worked them with hired help, and produced cash crops for the market. He created a mobile labor force and a food supply raised by big farmers, which advanced the industrialization of
Chapter 17 (13-24) History Part II/B … Russian Revolution
Citation: from "A History of the Modern World" by R.R Palmer
13. Explain Lenin’s view on the “party”? Lenin’s view on the “party”: He demanded strong authority at the top, by which the central committee would determine the doctrine (or “party line”) and control personnel at all levels of the organization. He thought the party would strengthen itself by purges, expelling all but the most fundamental disagreements. He stood for the rigid reaffirmation of Marxian ideas and fundamentals- dialectical materialism and irreconcilable class struggle.
14. What did Lenin add to Marxism? He developed and transformed it into a first-rank element of Marxism certain theories of “imperialism” and of the “uneven development of capitalism, that is captilism that …show more content…
Describe the Reforms of Stolypin: His aim was to build up the propertied classes as friends of the state. He believed that a state actively supported by widespread private property had little to fear from doctrinaire intellectuals, conspirators, and emigrants. He therefore favored and broadened the powers of the provincial zemstvos, in which the larger landowners took part in administering local affairs. For the peasantry he put through legislation more sweeping than any since the Emancipation. He wanted to replace the ancient institution with a regime of private individual property. He abolished what was left of the redemption payments for which the mirs had been collectively rights and to leave the common at will. He authorized peasants to buy land freely from the communes, from each other, or from the gentry. He thus favored the rise of the class of “big farmers,” the later kulaks who obtained control of large tracts, worked them with hired help, and produced cash crops for the market. He created a mobile labor force and a food supply raised by big farmers, which advanced the industrialization of