Terms

Legitimacy-the belief that a regime is a proper one, that the government has a right to exercise authority, that its policies will be enforced and followed by its bureaucratic forces, that its policies will be followed by its citizen

Difference between an Authoritarian and Totalitarian regime?

• Authoritarian: non-democratic, decision-making is highly centralized and exclusionary, limited individual freedoms, excessive reliance of violence against political opposition, limited governmental accountability, coercion, one that allows for private dissent, allows individual to think (so long as you openly and publicly profess support of the government
• Totalitarian: non-democratic, a system in whuch citizens are completely subject to control of a governmental authority, it goes beyond the authoritarian system, surveillance, monitoring of civillian activity, indoctornation (to like a creed), makes revolution and attempts at change that much more difficult, makes innovation that much more difficult, perhaps making civil society difficult as well

Are authoritarian and totalitarian regimes legitimate?
Communism (polotical theory) (govt. ideaology)

• belief in the historic inevitability of revolutionary change in the relationships of production
• violent class strugle

Elitist

• dictatorship with a proletariat leadership necessary to achieve revolution and complete socialization
• fundamental supremacy of the party increasing authoritarianism leading to withering away of the state

Russia

• Russia was the most backward of the 19th century major powers
• agricultural not really industrial
• had little industry
• an autocratic government with no constitution
• mainly an illiterate peasant population, church did not educate when government did not either
• Czar Nicholas II (1894-1917)-could be argued that he never wanted the job, but got the job because he was the heirgoverned fatalistically (did not use his power to influence events), little experence in governing, not firm in dealing with increased polotical opposition
• The Liberal Movement: a middle-class party, but because not industrialized there was no middle-class, abolish the regime and emanded liberal constituional regime
• The Social Party Revolutionary:evolve from thhe Land and Liberty Party, prepared to use violence but rather utopian
• The Social Democratic Parety (Mensheviks)-beleived in a mass movement of workers gradually progressing towards a socialist state
• Bolswheviks-led by Lenin, beleived in revolution by a party of elite leading the workers, committed to a vanguard partry

The RFevolution of 1905

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