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What were Alexander II's Ideologies? |
1. Defeat in the Crimean war led to his reformist ideology. 2. Throughout his reign he inplimented heavy reformation. 3. He believed it was better to 'abolish serfdom from above' 4. Adhered strongly to autocracy after an assassination attempt on his life in 1866 |
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What were Alexander III's ideologies? |
1. He was a reactionary 2. He reversed and altered many reforms made prior to 1881 4. He believed his father's reformist ideology cause his assassination 3. He recognised the need for modernisation 4. Autocracy needed to be solid and the Tsar must have total control. 5. Parliamentarianism: Belief that constitutional government was impossible because the people didn't possess the mental attributes He was also influenced by Pobedonostsev's ideologies: 1. Inertness and laziness are attributes of slavics. 2. Only aristocracy had the ability to think about problems and arrive at intellegant solutions. 3. The rest of humanity were influenced by 'the forces of the unconcious land and history' |
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What were Nicholas II's Ideologies ? |
'To uphold the principle of autocracy as firmly and unflinchingly as did my ever lamented father' |
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What were Lenin's ideologies ? |
1. Marxism: to form a superstructure in which labour and the theory of value leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. Marxism-Leninism: 1. Support for workers to gain higher wages and better working conditions 2. Dialectal phase of Marxism could be sped up when applied to Russia 3. No need for a democratically elected constitutional assembly 4. Wanted a party central committee led by professionals who would govern the interests of the workers until they were ready to govern themselves. This interpretation of Marxism was supported by the Bolsheviks of the RSDLP. The rest of the RSDLP were menshaviks. |
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What were Stalin's ideologies ? |
Totalitarianism / Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism 1. Base of society could only be permanently changed by utilising a particular type of super structure 2. Super structure had to be personalised and under the total control of stalin 3. If anyone disagreed it was labeled 'bourgeois' |
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What were the historians beliefs regarding Stalin's ideologies? |
1. Stalin was an opportunist and exploited the circumstances to inpliment an ideology that provided a practical solution to the Soviet unions problems 2. Stalin behaved the strict imolimentation of the 5 year plans and collectivisation were the only way to make the Soviet union a prosperous place 3. Stalin manipulated and distorted Marxism-Leninism to serve his own megalomania (reinforced by showtrials, purges and imposition of the cult of personality) 4. Stalin built upon the foundations laid by Lenin as Lenin had begun to destroy the base by the superstructure as well as the instigation fo fear through the cheka. |
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What were Khrushchev's ideologies ? |
Desalination 1. He believed that Lenin's testemeant showed he was never accepted by Lenin as a potential leader 2. Stalin created a state that was totally unprepared for military conflict. 3. He committed a range of crimes due to his demand for absolute submission of the will of the people and crated fear and insecurity 4. Misdemeanours against outsiders who should have been embraced by the Soviet leadership. E.g stalin ordered assassination of the Hungary an revolutionary leader Bela Kunn. |
