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10.40- Relaunch and Recap

Revolutions

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The Russian Revolutionary Revolutionary Party

In 18 94, all of these revolutionaries received the same gift when czar nicholas the second ascended to the imperial throne. So lennon and his comrades embraced the doctrine of two revolutions. The capitalist industrialization, with all its requisite transformative miracles and horrors, must be embraced, rather than resisted. It was the only way forward. First there had to be a democratic revolution by the new capitalist bourgeoisie who would overthrow the mediaeval czarist apparatus. And then we can move forward with the socialist revolution towards the dictatorship of the proletariat. Now, this brewing domestic crisis may not have gotten out of hand if Russian foreign policy hadn't been so entangled in a war with japan.

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