The Enduring Legacy And Impact Of Vladimir Lenin
The Enduring Legacy and Impact of Vladimir Lenin The reign of Communism throughout the majority of the Eastern World and its origins in industrialism are ubiquitous features of the 19th and 20th centuries. Thus, the pivotal players in its creation, dissemination and thought are of paramount historical importance insofar as they have played a vital role in the establishment, proliferation and dissemination of one of the predominant ideologies of the last two centuries; for better or for worse. And of these pivotal players, Vladimir Lenin stands out in his preeminence. For Vladimir Lenin established the first nation state with the explicitly-stated goal of achieving a Communist society; despite the immense adversity placed in his way, fundamentally
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Setting the stage for Communism to spread throughout Europe, Asia and Africa; simultaneously spurring great change and great misery, thus permanently and indubitably altering the course of history.
Lenin’s ascent to power within the Soviet Union occurred after he initiated a Bolshevik coup in the Constituent Assembly of the Provisional Government Soviet; ensuing a devastating blow to Bolshevik power when the Socialist Revolutionary Party won a majority in the earlier Constituent Assembly elections (Slezkine, 130-132). Wherein Lenin violently expulsed all alleged “bourgeoisie elements” and “appeasers”, consolidating his power in a highly fractured, divided and tumultuous state and setting the stage for the full establishment of the U.S.S.R. (Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions,V). An establishment that would spell the start of a campaign of horrendous authoritarianism; whereby members of the Cheka violently and arbitrarily censored and eliminated dissent, food prices were to be completely subject to government dictate, spurring famine, and genocide was carried out upon any ethnic groups who dared to oppose Bolshevik policies to any extent, such as the Don Cossacks (Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, IV). Policies which were justified upon the premises of their contribution towards the end goal of creating Communism. For the Soviet Union was the first Communist-led state Further, in the eyes of later Communist leaders, atrocities
Setting the stage for Communism to spread throughout Europe, Asia and Africa; simultaneously spurring great change and great misery, thus permanently and indubitably altering the course of history.
Lenin’s ascent to power within the Soviet Union occurred after he initiated a Bolshevik coup in the Constituent Assembly of the Provisional Government Soviet; ensuing a devastating blow to Bolshevik power when the Socialist Revolutionary Party won a majority in the earlier Constituent Assembly elections (Slezkine, 130-132). Wherein Lenin violently expulsed all alleged “bourgeoisie elements” and “appeasers”, consolidating his power in a highly fractured, divided and tumultuous state and setting the stage for the full establishment of the U.S.S.R. (Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions,V). An establishment that would spell the start of a campaign of horrendous authoritarianism; whereby members of the Cheka violently and arbitrarily censored and eliminated dissent, food prices were to be completely subject to government dictate, spurring famine, and genocide was carried out upon any ethnic groups who dared to oppose Bolshevik policies to any extent, such as the Don Cossacks (Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, IV). Policies which were justified upon the premises of their contribution towards the end goal of creating Communism. For the Soviet Union was the first Communist-led state Further, in the eyes of later Communist leaders, atrocities