Students must write a research paperusing both primary and secondary sourcesthat answers the following question: J.A. Hobson, a British theorist, and Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist Party) in the Soviet Union, both criticized late 19th century imperialism as a capitalist conspiracy by big business to subjugate colonies for pure economic gain, since colonies now provided cheap raw materials and guaranteed markets for European and U.S. trusts and monopolies. But what about ideological factors such as the idea of the civilizing mission or Manifest Destiny?
