The February/March Revolution How far would you agree that the February/March revolution that overthrew the Russian monarchy was a “spontaneous uprising”? Answer this question and develop a deep analysis. The second revolution in Russia at the time of World War One‚ following the first revolt in 1905‚ took place in February (March for the rest of Europe) of the year 1917. At the time‚ the conditions of the nation were strained under almost every aspect. The decision of the Tsar Nicholas II
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the work of the Secret Police‚ the creation of the cult of Stalin and his use of socialist realism were also significant. The show trials were was very important in Stalin’s control of Russia; by killing all the Bolsheviks that might oppose him he was able to rule freely. The Bolsheviks that were accused were forced to confess many crimes‚ including plotting to murder Lenin. This enabled Stalin to lay the blame on Trotsky‚ whom he accused of leading these plotters. This was very important because
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After the Bolsheviks came to power‚ Trotsky became the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and published the secret treaties previously signed by the Triple Entente that detailed plans for post-war reallocation of colonies and redrawing state borders. White Army propaganda poster depicting Trotsky as Satan‚ and portraying a xenophobic depiction of the Bolsheviks’ Asian supporters as mass murderers. The caption reads‚ "Peace and Liberty in Sovdepiya". Bolshevik propaganda portrait from 1918 depicting
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behest of his mother‚ Dzhugashvili entered a seminary to train for the priesthood – but he was soon expelled for behavioural problems and not paying his school fees. In 1903 he took a liking to the communist theories of Lenin and joined the fledgling Bolshevik movement. Dzughashvili was tasked with raising funds for the party through criminal means: he organised and led bank robberies‚ initiated kidnaps and ransom demands‚ and used threats and violence to extort money. Dzhugashvili soon became a wanted
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standing on its last leg. In his essay Kepley explains why the Soviet Union turned to taking their films on to the train tracks. He details that much of why Russian Cinema developed the way it did was out of necessity more than style. After the Bolshevik revolution the Soviet film Industry was at a huge cross road. They had very few production and exhibition materials‚ and a glaring need to be able to show the films in rural areas. “The strategy adhered to throughout War Communism…was to locate
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How far were the divisions among its opponents responsible for the survival of Tsarist rule in the years 1881-1905? Tsarism thrived for hundreds of years but as Russians became more educated they decided that communism and a dictatorship was too harsh and after a few revolutions Tsarism was a thing from the past. In the years 1881 to 1905 many things changed in Russia for the better and for the worse. Firstly‚ the repressive policies of the Tsar was partly responsible for the survival of Tsarist
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need for women to have higher education. Political membership: At the time of the split in the Russian Social Democrat Labour Party in 1903‚ into the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks‚ Kollontai did not side with either. Kollontai then first joined the Mensheviks but then in 1915 finally joined the Bolsheviks. After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917‚ Kollontai became the People’s Commissar for Social Welfare. Kollontai founded the Zhenotdel or “Women’s Department” in 1919. This organisation worked to
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Social Democratic party into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. Lenin was put in prison for fifteen months for obtaining illegal pamphlets. After he served his term‚ he was exiled to Siberia‚ and got married. They went back to Switzerland in 1900 and started his paper‚ the Iskra. Lenin made a deal with the Germans that he would take power and pull Russia out of the war. Lenin then came to power in October 1917. In 1918‚ the Mensheviks fought the Bolsheviks‚ resulting in a Menshevik loss. Between 1919
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writer and speaker. Trotsky shared Lenin’s vision of a society whose wealth would be shared and controlled by the workers. But Trotsky refused to join the Bolsheviks party because he disagreed with Lenin’s methods of leading the party. He remained a member of the Mensheviks until July 1917 when he returned to Russia and joined the Bolsheviks. He became a close friend of Lenin and a leader in the October revolution. Trotsky became a military leader during the Civil War and his ruthless leadership
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advantaged and why others were disadvantaged. War communism was implemented as a result of the civil war. Historians such as Maurice Dobb‚ E. H. Carr‚ and Stephen Cohen -- have interpreted war communism as a short-term expedient imposed on the Bolsheviks by the emergency demands of civil war and foreign intervention. According to this version‚ the system was never intended to last into normal peacetime conditions and had no special ideological significance. While this has since become "the standard
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