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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1a) i) True ii) Neither side won the war Iii) True IV) True V) True VI) True Vii) False Vii) True Que 1b. Provisional Government was set up (February 1917) Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (2nd March 1917) Food riots in Petrograd (8th March 1917) Formation of Petrograd Soviet of Workers and Soldiers Deputies (March 1917) Lenin releases his ‘April Theses’ (4th April 1917) ‘July days’ (3rd to 7th July according to Julian calendar and 16th to 20th July according to Gregorian calendar)
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HISTORY 2084: RUSSIA IN WAR AND REVOLUTION‚ 1894-1953 ACCOUNT FOR STALIN ’S RISE TO POWER IN THE PERIOD 1922 TO 1929 INTRODUCTION Stalin ’s ascent to the leadership of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was neither easy nor inevitable. Following the incapacitation and subsequent death of Vladimir Lenin‚ there were many legitimate claimants to this leadership: Grigory Zinoviev‚ Lev Kamenev‚ Nikolai Bukharin and‚ particularly‚ Leon Trotsky‚ Lenin ’s right-hand man and heir apparent.
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Using the four sources and your own knowledge‚ assess the view that the failures of the Provisional Government were the main factors in enabling Lenin and the Bolsheviks to seize power. Seizure of power appeared more prominently due to the nature of 1917‚ in which the April Theses was published‚ the July Days occurred and the Kornilov Affair‚ which emphasised the weaknesses of the Provisional Government. However‚ it is how the Bolsheviks enabled their power through 1917: through their powerful
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problem in itself: no one wanted to work together. Some of the revolutionary groups included the Socialist Revolutionary (SR)‚ and born from the Russian Marxists‚ who formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) was the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. Another main group were the Constitutional Democrats‚ also known as the Cadets‚ made up primarily of the educated and propertied classes. Initially‚ regardless of their individual tactics‚ all these groups aimed to replace tsarism with a democratic
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The definition of assassination is “to kill someone‚ such as a famous or important person‚ usually for political reasons” (Merriam-Webster). Numerous assassinations have occurred throughout history. One such assassination was of Communist theorist Leon Trotsky‚ a man from Ukraine‚ who was the successor to Vladimir Lenin‚ however this led to his assassination while he was in exile. Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in Yanovka‚ Ukraine‚ which was a part of the Russia at that time (World
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have been a strong counter-revolution by anti-Bolshevik forces‚ as the period after the October Revolution was extremely unstable. The Red Terror was needed to spread as much terror as possible in order to prevent a major counter-revolution by the Mensheviks or other anti-Bolshevik
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down the tsar. They were unable to unite their cause and were weaker because of it. Furthermore‚ there was discontent within the political groups. In 1903 the SD’s could no longer function as a single group and split into the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The division weakened the groups more meaning the Tsar could continue to rule. The 1905 concessions were also partly responsible for the survival of the Tsar during the time
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Propaganda has played an important role in term of the outcome of the war during the World War One (WW1). Therefore‚ during the World War One‚ the British used propaganda for different reasons. During the World War One period‚ Russia had a loss of over a million casualties in the war against Germany. That has resulted in a deterioration of its military and caused a domestic discontent. The People were suffering; the value of their money was deteriorating and women and children had to work for long
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Josef Stalin is known throughout Russia for his legendry use of terror‚ political manipulation and demanding policies who would stop at nothing to achieve his goals. However‚ the question of the legitimacy of his position as leader of the Bolshevik party still remains. Following the death of Lenin in 1924‚ a power vacuum developed within the Bolshevik party and it was clear that a leadership race between candidates had begun. Stalin was able to rise above men like Trotsky‚ Kamenev and Zinoviev to
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