radical socialists were called the Bolsheviks. The socialists called for peace‚ while the provisional government continued to war. Lenin emerged as the leader of the Bolsheviks‚ and in 1917 he went to Russia calling for "peace‚ land and bread." Lenin was a Marxist and wanted to train the working class to become a revolutionary force. On November 7‚ 1917‚ the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government in what is called the October Revolution. In 1918‚ the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist
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To what extent were the Purges caused by Stalin’s paranoia? Daniel Johnston Stromness Academy SCN: O62114657 Introduction J.Arch Getty says that “The Great Terror of the 1930s in the Soviet Union was one of the most horrible cases of political violence in modern history”[i] but was this political terror a result of Stalin’s own paranoia or a necessity to maintain control in Soviet Russia? Robert Service argues that “Nowadays‚ virtually all writers accept that he [Stalin] initiated the
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October/November 1917? When Tsar Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917‚ it was entirely possible that the Provisional Government would survive. The Bolsheviks were only a tiny faction in Russian political life. Most of their leaders were in exile‚ and they had virtually no support among the Russian people. Moreover‚ according to orthodox Marxists (including many Bolsheviks)‚ the conditions for a socialist revolution were not evident in Russia. For centuries the Russian government had been essentially a somewhat
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hard for very little pay. The Russian revolution involved the collapse of an empire under tsar Nicholas II the rise of Maxian Socialisim under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Lenin promised everyone in Russia peace‚ land‚ and bread. A little while the Bolsheviks seized power and took Lenin’s position. Stalin helped hide Lenin while the Bolshevik troops were trying to find him. Trotsky organized the red guards during the Russian revolution. After Vladimir Lenin died‚ Stalin outmaneuvered his rivals
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Hypothesis: That the Bolshevik’s Red Army won the civil war in 1920 due to their central and influential ideologies and due to the lack of ideologies and direction of the Whites. Evaluate this claim. Shortly after the October and February revolutions‚ in 1917‚ Russia burst almost immediately into Civil War. The two parties concerned were the Bolshevik’s Red Army and the opposing White Army. The Civil War raged from the years 1917 to presently after 1920 with the eventual success of the Red Army
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tsarism and the triumph of the Bolsheviks were in no way inevitable‚ after they happened‚ it was inevitable that Stalin would come to power‚ in direct conflict with the revisionist historians (64). b. While some historians believe Trotsky or Bukharim would have inherited the revolution if it had not been “hijacked” by Stalin (64)‚ Pipes points out that there is record of Lenin’s mistrust of them(64). c. Pipes states that “Stalin was the only high-ranking Bolshevik who cared about such matters and
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Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee. After Lenin’s death‚ he became the second leader of the Soviet Union. He was always Supporting Lenin and the Bolshevik system‚ even before the Bolshevik revolution. The political Communist of the Soviet Union was Marxism–Leninism which depends on the theories of Marxism and Leninism. The term Marxism–Leninism was called by Stalin. When Stalin became the leader of Soviet Union‚ he wanted to follow
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The Soviets equally feared the overwhelming influence on the population belief system. Clearly the Bolsheviks wanted to reign on all ideological fronts. Very soon after the October 1917 revolution‚ the Soviets declared the Orthodox church was no longer part of with the State institutions and declared the state free from religious propaganda. For the first
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“Peace‚ Bread‚ and Land‚” said the masses in the summer months of 1918. Peace‚ because of the uproars and revolts. Bread‚ because the peasants’ bread was taken away‚ and land because the peasants’ land was taken away. This popular bolshevik slogan became popular to the Russian civilians during the first years of the revolution. Russia had overthrown its tsar to become a communist country. The only way of achieving an ideal communist society: to control all aspects of every citizen‚ also known as
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outbreak of the Revolution in 1917 to 1922 saw the Revolution going through various shapes. These include the abdication of Czar Nicholas II and the establishment of the provisional government‚ the October Revolution and assumption of power by the Bolsheviks‚ Treaty of Brest-Litovisk‚ the Civil War and collapse of opposition to the Russian Soviet State. At the heart of the Revolution
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