Lenin and Trotsky had created the Red Soviet Army from the Red Guard, a bolshevik…
During the tsar reign, the lower class people worked for little payment and had bad works rights. In 1917, the working class people revolted against the government of Nicholas II led by Lenin, which started the Russian Revolution. It was also called February Revolution and is characterized by the Czarist government collapse and the establishment of a provisional…
Due to Nicholas II’s failure to accomplish the citizen’s goals and to negotiate with them, the Russian Revolution began. Peasants struggled…
Another factor of why the revolution broke out in Russia in 1905 was because of the shortages and high prices of food; this has resulted to create more unrest in the capital St. Petersburg making the society more anti-Tsarist as the people were suffering under Alexander III. Russia also suffered a severe depression due to the unemployment and urban discontent, the peasant population was increasing meanwhile the taxes rose and the arrears had grown resulting in strike in 1902-03 and assassination of the Minister of Interior, Plehve.…
To what extent was Lenin crucial to the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917?…
How far was Lenin responsible for the Bolsheviks’ growing hold on power in the years 1917-1924?…
Between 1800 and 1939 Russia underwent through a severe regime change. The people of Russia were in a state of great economic disparity, and the lower class faced hunger, poverty, etc. The lower class had very little of the grain, land, and fiscal control that was available in Russia, such pretext of large income disparity gaps and unbalanced control of GDP were the pre-requisites se in place for the takeover of socialism. And such is what happened. Within this time period Russia went through a proletariat revolution of communism aiming have the workers of the world unite and free themselves from capitalist oppression to create a world run by and for the working class. However even though they underwent this major social-economic change, conditions in Russia stayed around the same. We still saw that Russia was under leadership of a Totalitarian authority. And maintained the same economic conditions where the consumer-based market never developed and the population was largely rural and the economy was agricultural based.…
During World War I, Russia performed poorly. Although Russia had a large number of soldiers, they weren’t trained properly and they didn’t have enough weapons, ammo, or food for the entire army. The czar of Russia decided to keep fighting, instead of backing out of the war. Leading to the Russian Revolution, where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ ideology, communism, heavily impacted the Russian Revolution, leading to Russia becoming the Soviet Union. World War I left a large amount of damage to Russia’s economy and society.…
At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was a very poor country. Most of the people were peasants, and there was very little industry. After the First World War, things only got worse; the army suffered many huge defeats. The poorest of the people were starving, due to a shortage of food. During the war, in 1917 the Communists came about by two important revolutions; they were led by Lenin. Communism is a system of government in which the state controls the economy and one party holds power, attempting to make progress towards a higher social order, in which the people equally share all goods out. Russia was renamed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).…
There was huge inequality between the rich and poor in Russia. The Bolsheviks wanted the communists should destroy other classes and class is everything.…
As the soldiers pillaged the towns, the people had no more belonging or money and so poverty became an even larger problem in Russia. Throughout these events, the people had no say and no way to change their position. Their rights were stripped from them and the common people were forced to live as slaves for the bolshevik party. During the Russian Revolution, there was a great amount change. The Leadership and the ideas and goals of the country changed but the issues and rights of the common people did…
It is easier to quantify a historical figure’s achievements not by showing what he changed, but rather by showing what the world would be like if he had not been there. If Vladimir Lenin had not been born, there would be no Cold War, no Soviet Union and Russia might still be ruled by a Tsar. However, Lenin was not simply a catalyst in the many changes Russia faced; he was a most volatile reactant in the chemistry of Russian and world politics. Breaking the barrier between attaining both economic success and political achievement, Vladimir Lenin almost singlehandedly ended the Tsardom and brought the socialist “Bolshevik” party to power in Russia. Lenin’s unique experiences in his youth led him to his status as a revolutionary and ultimately changed Russia and the world. Lenin’s early life helped to shape his destiny as a revolutionary leader.…
The serfs were "freed", the provisional government failed and the czar made serious mistakes. The serfs were "freed" then again got tooken over by the Communist party and were told what to do, where to live, and where to work. The provisional government failed fatefully by continuing war against Germany and got defeated. The czar, well he made a couple of serious mistakes. He fought in the Russo-Japanese War and got defeated. Then he went to war with Austria and Germany and got defeated. The last mistake he made was moving the headquarters to the front and leaving the Russian government under the Alexandra's hands. Conditions were desperate under her rule. The Russian Revolution should have never happened because so many Russian lives were lost under the Russian…
2.The Bolshevik Revolution was the overthrow of Czar Nicholas II ,by the Bolsheviks, because of his abuse of political power, the economical difference between classes, and because they wanted to withdraw from World War I. An outcome of the Revolution was that Russia became a communist nation. Someone’s life would have changed because of the Communist dictatorship, death as a result of Russia’s civil war, and the seizing of land.…
Not only did the plans improve the economy, to an extent they improved Stalin’s political status. The direct action he took enforcing the plans cemented his political leadership in the country and no longer allowed him to be seen as Lenin’s pupil. Furthermore, the five-year plans were the most…