PPT-Creation of the Bolshevik Dictatorship

Learning Objective To understand the methods used by the Bolsheviks to consolidate their control 1921 1924 What happened next Do not make the mistake that in addition to a freeing up of economic life there was also a freeing up of political life far from it. AOS1 - Revolutionary ideas, leaders, movements and events. The October Revolution. Growth in popular support for the Bolsheviks. Growth in support after the defeat of . Kornilov. Massive growth in Bolshevik representation in Soviets in Petrograd and Moscow. God and Creation. © . 2011 . David W. . Opderbeck. Licensed Under Creative Commons Attribution / Share-Alike. Telos. Does creation have a goal or purpose (a . telos. )?. If God knew or could have known that evil, sin and suffering would corrupt creation, why did He create?. Dictatorial Rule . The 17 year regime is . roughly . divided into two periods, 1973-1980, 1980-1988. The first period was characterized by heavy and open use of military repression. Most of the mass-deaths and disappearances occurred during the seventies (Caravan of death 1973, . UNDERSTANDING . THE SCRIPTURES. ANTICIPATORY SET .  . When people use the tools of science to understand nature, which question do you think they are more likely to ask: . (1) How was the universe created? or . Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Gel JYOTI. Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science. PGGC-11. Chandigarh. The Classical Liberal Theory of Democracy. Salient features:. Sovereignty lies with the people. Belief in the rationality of man. Why . dictatorships in modern societies?. A Few Theories. Crisis Theory. Dictatorships arise via a crisis. Examples?. Great Man Theory . (reference Thomas Carlyle) . “great men” lead. Nietzsche writes that: "...the goal of humanity lies in its highest specimens“. Week . 8. Macro-Outcomes:. Emergence of Democracy. Brian Downing. Ph.D. University of Chicago. 1992. . The Military Revolution and Political. Change: The Origins of Democracy and. Autocracy in Early Modern Europe.. Of all the Great Powers in 1914, Russia was the least able to fight a prolonged war. Although the country was rich in natural resources, industrialization remained far behind other major nations in Europe. UNDERSTANDING . THE SCRIPTURES. ANTICIPATORY SET .  . When people use the tools of science to understand nature, which question do you think they are more likely to ask: . (1) How was the universe created? or . (for Max Cut). Venkatesan. . Guruswami. Fields Institute Summer School. June 2011. (Slides borrowed from Prasad . Raghavendra. ). Dictatorship Test. Given a function . . F : {-1,1}. R. {-1,1}. How old is the earth? The universe?. Bible. Earth ~ 6,000 years. Universe ~ 6,000 years. Science. Earth ~4.5 billion years. Universe ~14.5 billion years. This can be very confusing to our children and even adults. 1950. 1960. 1970. 2000. 0. 40. 80. 120. 160. 200. 1980. . 1990. Year. Democracies. . Dictatorships. . Independent. . Countries. 2010. . 2020. Number. . of . Countries. Huntington: Three Waves of Democracy. Early Democracy vs Modern Democracy. Common claim: . Europeans invented democracy.. But. . if we see the ‘consent of the people’ as the defining feature of democratic rule, then democracy is a relatively common system of rule in human...