about the deteriorating conditions. On October 24‚ 1917‚ Bolshevik forces and their allies began seizing essential centers of power. By the next morning‚ the Bolsheviks informed the still- assembled congress of soviets that they had taken power in the name of the Russian worker and peasant and had established a temporary government. The events of October introduced a single Communist government in Russia for the first time. Non- Bolshevik newspapers were all shut down by the summer of 1918. All Russian
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Guilty until Proven Guilty Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested on October 24‚ 2003‚ by armed police forces in Novosobirsk. He was the wealthiest person in Russia with a billion dollars because of his management of Russia’s largest oil company‚ Yukos. Khodorkovsky rose as an oligarch easily because of his relationship with Boris Yeltsin‚ President of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The reason Khodorkovsky was arrested was because of his failure to follow the government and pay $4.5 billion
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History Samantha Fisher 13B February 21‚ 2012 Mr. Allen Essay on the Russian Revolution The Russo-Japanese War lasted from 1904 to 1905‚ and arose from both Japan and Russia’s desire for expansion and dominance in Korea and Manchuria. Russia suffered many great defeats in this war‚ against a nation that was considered inferior and was not one of the Great Powers. This humiliated the people of Russia‚ and caused them to lose confidence in Tsar Nicholas II‚ as well as causing great
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Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on November 7‚ 1879‚ in what is today known as Ukraine. He was the fifth child of a wealthy farmer‚ David Leontyevich Bronstein‚ and Anna Bronstein. The family was ethnically Jewish but not religious. At the age of nine‚ Trotsky was sent to Odessa to attend school‚ and as Deutscher points out in his biography‚ ‘Odessa was then a bustling cosmopolitan port city‚ very unlike the typical Russian city of the time. This environment contributed to the development
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Name___________________________________ Period #___________ Date___________ Animal Farm 20 Questions Webquest Directions: Please use the suggested links to find answers to each of the questions below. Be sure to paraphrase (not copy) the answers/information you find on the internet. All these questions will have parallels in Animal Farm‚ so be sure to pay careful attention! For questions #1-2‚ please refer to your copy of the novel and to this website http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/opinion/essays/rhodi
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standard) eight-hour work day was made obligatory‚ and factory workers were given the right to supervise their enterprises. Earlier‚ Kerensky had planned an election for the end of October‚ and Lenin gave permission. The results of the election made the Bolsheviks the splinter group in the Constituent Assembly. Lenin then tried to appeal over the head of the assembly to the people. By January 1918‚ the council was completely demoralized and stopped functioning. During this‚ Lenin still had to deal with the
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1954‚ opposition to Russian governments was a common occurrence due to dissatisfaction of many civilians’ lives and the lack of development seen throughout Russia. However‚ as much as there were some successful movements throughout 1905 such as the Bolsheviks gaining support and eventually gaining power‚ there were also several failed attempts due to intense use of violence‚ terror and censorship by the state. It is arguable that whether opposition was successful‚ merely came down to the strength of
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As World War I was heading towards its end Russia was focusing on internal issues. Led by Vladimir Lenin the Bolsheviks embarked on a campaign against the war. Using propaganda which focused on trying to turn the allied troops against their officers Lenin looked to inspire a socialist revolution. The Bolsheviks were also fueled by the poor conditions of the Russian Army. Nicholas II‚ in a letter to his wife Alexandra‚ admitted the obstacles that the Russian Army faced‚ "Again that cursed question
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The Russian Empire founded in 1720‚ it was the third largest empire in world history‚ and it stretched over three continents. The 20th century in Russia started with the catastrophe of the Russo-Japanese War. With the lost‚ Russia was economically devastated and the national morale was virtually non-existent. The Russian people had had enough of the impotent Tsar Nicholas II. Russia‚ unlike the rest of Europe‚ was backward society. In Russia‚ they still had many serfs. The Russians knew they needed
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LENIN Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century‚ who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917‚ and was the architect and first head of the USSR. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well-educated family. He excelled at school and went on to study law. At university‚ he was exposed to radical thinking‚ and his views were also influenced by the execution of his elder brother
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