Essay about Russians and Romanovs

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1. Autocracy An autocracy is a system of government in which a supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control. 2. Anarchism Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchal free associations. Anarchists participated alongside the Bolsheviks in both February and October revolutions, and were initially enthusiastic about the Bolshevik revolution. 3. Bolshevism a. Soviet communism b. the doctrine or program of the Bolsheviks advocating violent overthrow of capitalism 4. Marxism a. Marxism is based on a materialist understanding of societal development, taking as its starting point the necessary economic activities required by human society to provide for its material needs. The eventual long-term outcome of this revolution would be the establishment of socialism- a socioeconomic system based on cooperative ownership of the means of production, distribution based on ones contribution, and production organized directly for use. Karl Marx hypothesized that, as the productive forces and technology continued to advance, socialism would eventually give way to a communist stage of social development. Communism would be a classless, stateless, humane society based on common ownership and the principle of ". From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." 5. Feudalism a. Feudalism was a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. Karl Marx also used the term in political analysis. In the 19th century, Marx described feudalism as the economic situation coming before the rise of capitalism. For Marx, what defined feudalism was that the power of the ruling class (the aristocracy) rested on their control of arable land, leading to a class