first communist government in the world. Lenin lead the Russian Communists to power in November 1917. Strictly this should read Russian Bolsheviks as the party Lenin had joined as a young man split in two in 1903. Those who left the party were few in number and became known as the Mensheviks. The majority stayed with Lenin and they became known as the Bolsheviks which means majority in Russian. Lenin was born in 1870. His family was reasonably well off and Lenin wanted for nothing. At school‚
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of his army ready to attack Petrograde as the photograph was taken in summer 1917. He looks determined but his army looks small and quite weak compared to the Bolshevik’s troops and the Kerensky’s troops. The fact that the Bolsheviks helped Kerensky only restored the Bolsheviks as patriots in the eyes of the Russians and enabled them to continue their plan to seize power. This plan to seize power was mainly based of Lenin’s and Lenin’s collaborators ideas. The role of Lenin in the overthrow of the
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In some ways the NEP was a success: 1. It helped the Bolshevik government survive the problems of 1921 – there were no new revolts‚ and the government was able to establish itself securely in power. 2. It made the peasants and small traders happy – gave them a little more money in their pockets. 3. It stimulated production‚ which went back to 1913 levels. 4. It helped the country recover from the Civil War. 5. It produced more food – in 1921 there had been a famine; by 1923 there
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Assessment: Discuss the effect of the New Economic Policy on the Russian State Bolshevik policy throughout the period of War Communism had asserted the use of force and terror to gain political control and stability. Peasants and industrial workers alike had been treated poorly in order to provide for the needs of the party. Although successful in winning the Civil War‚ War Communism had shattered the country leaving it in a desolate state. It was therefore through the introduction of the New Economic
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Assess the reasons for the 1905 revolution In 1905 the massacre of innocent people during a peaceful protest outside the winter palace in St Petersburg sparked the start of a nationwide revolution. This mass murder of the innocent protestors became known as ‘Bloody Sunday’. During the revolution strikes occurred across the nation involving more than 400‚000 people‚ peasants attacked and raided the homes of their landlords and the Tsar’s uncle‚ the Grand Duke Sergei‚ was assassinated. Although Bloody
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To what extent was Lenin ‘heir to the Russian tradition of government’? Since the tsar‚ Lenin has taken the ‘throne’ and along with the Bolsheviks proceeded to turn Russia into a one-party state. It can be argued that Russia has remained almost unchanged in terms of government policies and its traditions this is shown by Lenin’s oppressive policies such as censorship. Lenin was not born into power and this shows he is in fact not an "heir" to Russian tradition. Similarly he had as little time
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harsh economic measure the Bolsheviks adopted during the civil war. The aims was to put Communism theories into practice by redistributing wealth among the Russian people as well as help with the Civil War by keeping the towns and the Red Army supplied with food and weapons. This policy had both negative and positive impacts. Firstly‚ War Communism brought upon 7 million deaths to the Russian people due to grain requisition during the Civil War organized by the Bolsheviks for their army. This led to
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The provisional government was deposed in early October by the Bolsheviks as a result of the October Revolution. The storming and capitulation of the Winter Palace on the night of the 7th to 8th of November marked the beginning of Soviet rule. Lenin was elected as the Chair of the Council of People’s Commissars by the Russian Congress of Soviets. In April 1917 Lenin published his April Thesis. This document outlined Lenin’s aims for the future: to end the war; to give all power to the Soviet; to
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History Revolutions Exam Notes: RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Emily Spiezia UNIT 3 & 4 2012 Emily Spiezia 12Green 2012 Exam Notes LIFE UNDER TSARISM • "The Russian working class is burdened by a double yoke; it is....... robbed by the capitalists and landlords‚ and to prevent
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Between 1861 and 1917‚ Russian society had undergone many changes. It is safe to say that every aspect of that society had been some how modified. These changes led up to the Bolshevik revolution in November of 1917. Given the nature of Russian society‚ was the Bolshevik revolution unavoidable? <br> <br>Among the changes Russian society had undergone‚ one starts off the whole chain of events. This was the emancipation of the serfs‚ in 1861‚ by Czar Alexander. The emancipation freed 44 million peasants
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