ended the struggle for leadership. It was the personalities of each contender which played a role in establishing their position and reputation within the party and ultimately would either strengthen or weaken their chances of becoming the leader. Trotsky was seen as a vital member of the party‚ having the strongest revolutionary record of all opponents‚ this being with his leadership of the red army which had allowed the communists the seize power during the October revolution helping to enhance his
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in the story is the use of Propaganda. Propaganda is information‚ ideas‚ or rumors‚ deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person‚ group‚ movement‚ institution‚ etc;in Animal Farm’s case‚ harming a person who is named Snowball who represents Trotsky in the Russian Revolution. In
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How did Lenin consolidate power after 1917? There is little doubt that in the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution‚ the Bolshevik hold on power was by no means secure. Although there were 300‚000 Bolshevik Party members‚ a large part of the population were apathetic towards the Bolshevik Party. The Bolsheviks controlled many major cities‚ but its presence in the countryside was limited. The Bolsheviks succeeded in gaining power in Petrograd not due to their own popularity‚ but largely due
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strikes in the factories and street demonstrations. In January 1905 a demonstration was fired on by the Cossacks and many were killed‚ this day is now known as Bloody Sunday. There were mutinies within the navy. Revolutionaries‚ including Lenin and Trotsky‚ returned from exile. Workers councils were formed in the cities. Whilst in the countryside‚ peasants murdered landlords and took over their land. With these intimidations from the people the Tsar promised change in Russia and how it was run. He
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War Communism and the NEP By Lauri Vauhkonen 11MEP War Communism • Introduced in 1921 by Lenin and Trotsky as a policy and a plan to support the Bolshevik war effort during the civil war. • The idea behind War communism was to gather and take the food and other resources from the farmlands and factories in order to give the Red army as much support as possible. • The idea in the view of the Bolsheviks was a success as it gave their soldiers the much needed support and help to win the civil war
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Ibrahim Ahmed (24 mark) Lenin is recognised to have adapted the ways of Marxism under the circumstances of Russia in a way he saw fit it was called Leninism or lenin-marxsim . As under the theory of Marxism‚ leadership was bound under the dictatorship of the Proletariat in a socialist regime where the working class created the dictatorship‚ however Lenin altered and adapted this into Russia by saying the Bolshevik party would represent the proletariats on their behalf. This did not mean that Lenin
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Both were disciples of Lenin‚ an activists of communism in Russia. After Lenin’s death‚ both parties went against each other. Trotsky argues for industrialization‚ like Snowball‚ is allegory‚ argued for a windmill. On the other hand‚ Napoleon‚ Stalin’s allegory argued for more food production like Stalin argued for a militarized Russia. Orwell condemns how Stalin acted against opposing
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good for nothing. Stalin ordered someone to kill Trotsky. “The NKVD(his guards/soldiers) folders assassinated Stalin’s rival Leo Trotsky”(grade saver) which would be Snowball but the only difference was in the book snowball didn’t get assassinated he just got run out of the farm you the dogs which would be the NKVD.Snowball would have been the guy who really was trying to look out for the working class. Like Napoleon‚ Stalin kept tight control over the media. He commissioned paintings of himself
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his bitter rival‚ Trotsky. It was believed that Trotsky would succeed Lenin‚ however‚ Stalin won by a mixture of luck and deception. Trotsky was falling ill‚ so was not active to hold campaigns. Meanwhile‚ Stalin was seen as a capable leader and Lenin ’s closest friend. Due to a trick by Stalin‚ Trotsky was not at Lenin ’s funeral. This further denounced his reputation. Stalin ’s policies were also more acceptable to the people. He wanted "Socialism in One Country"‚ while Trotsky proposed an ideology
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now‚ but how it should continue. Economic policy became the cornerstone of this debate‚ as the Soviet economy was damaged from a near decade of war. It is here when Lenin began rolling back towards the state-assisted bourgeoisie that the Tsarist regime had attempted to implement‚ an implementation Engels noted for its dependency on keeping the state alive (On Social Relations in Russia 668). Lenin would not be able to form a system of economics and governance that would not necessitate a bureaucracy
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