A women’s liberation powerpoint because I do things last minute First little intro analogy…This is like overthrowing the Aztecs for the Spanish…it proves Russia was still in “old world thought” that politics were in the cities…that overthrowing the leader meant running the regime. Russia Coup Other Stuff

Even according to Lenin and Trotsky, it was not a popular revolution Industrial workers were a large minority of Russian Population AND…Bolsheviks were a large minority of political movements (and even industrialists).

Again, according to Lenin, workers can’t ever be politicians, therefore a revolution cant come from the workers for a sustained period of time (See graph below).

The organ (hehe…he said organ) is more important than the political structure. Control structure comes from within and must be in place to carry out further revolution. Examples: the Bolshevik member of the Duma also worked for the Okharna. The editor of the Pravda did also

Leninist, Marxist structure dictates that politics is competition, not fair democratic public opinion Reverts back to older thought again (from the intro analogy), that the smart people SHOULD tell the uneducated what to do…and that the “winner” of the political game is important. The public does not necessarily know what is good for them

Self confident and power hungry, Lenin was the only one willing to take responsibility for Russia.

Lenin saw the Communist movement as a global monolith Russia is a stepping stone Russia needs to set the example, all will follow. The Revolution’s true internal nature was of little importance as over time, all would change

Lenin saw himself in everyone…paranoia

Lenin had no scruples and took a lot of money from Germany even as they were the country’s enemy…he not only disliked the war, he generally disliked nationalism overall

THREE STEPS TO ENDING THE DUAL GOVT STRUCTURE Failure of Kerensky offensive Failure to organize a meeting of the constituent assembly and truly elect officials The Kornilov Incident (attempted right-wing coup)

The rest of the Chapter deals with the actions taken and evidence of weather it was popular or not, in general, it places a lot of blame on the Provisional Government Here is an oval:

Proof of rift and argument within the Bolshevik party and Socialism overall His arrival in October and published argument with Kamenev and Zinoviev Lack of documentation can signify Lenin’s desire to remain secret and paranoia of being “sold out” Menshiviks supported them against other factions, but undermined them when in direct confrontation. Social Democrats HAD THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY AND PUBLIC SUPPORT IN THE ERA (according to the text).

Actions taken to start and achieve the “Revolution Tricking the government to act against itself and then claim it is a counter- revolution (pgs 53-55) and separating the government from their only useful and loyal military apparatus. Use of Trotsky and others to gain support in the streets. The Winter Palace debacle Use of the word “Soviets” interchangeably with “Bolshevik party” helps to disguise the nature of power

The final 2 pages of the text are a summary of one very strong quote (This is the restated thesis and discussion…the conclusion of the chapter): “This cursory survey indicates that what occurred in October 1917 was a classical modern coup d’etat accomplished without mass support. It was a surreptitious seizure of the nerve centers of the modern state, carried out under false slogans, in order to neutralize the population at large, the true purpose of which was revealed only after the claimants to power were firmly in the saddle.” (Pipes, p.60)