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Second Blogpost Guidelines

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“Manifesto of October 17,” by Ilya Repin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

*BRING YOUR BOOK TO CLASS TUESDAY (Please)
Our second set of posts will focus on the development of a revolutionary movement in Russia and the revolution of 1905. You should start by reading Freeze (Chapter 8) and then develop one of the following topics:

1) Marxism / Leninism. Use the resources in the Marxist Internet Archive to examine the development of Marxism in Russia before the revolution of 1905.

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First Blog Post Guidelines

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For your first blog post, please select a photograph from this online exhibit at the Library of Congress and analyze it in the context of social and economic change in late Imperial Russia. A photograph such as this one, for example, might lead you to explore the religious, ethnic and economic diversity of this vast…

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