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    Russian Revolution Causes

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    “Bloody Sunday”‚ the “February Revolution” and the “October Revolution” also known as “October Manifesto” or “Bolshevik Revolution”. All those events led to Russia being a communist country. Some of the main historical figures in this battle being Vladimir Lenin‚ the Bolshevik leader‚ and Nicholas II‚ the last Russian Czar. The Russian Revolution was an irreplaceable event in history‚ that serves as an example to many world

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    Ukraine Crisis

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    independency when the Soviet Union went down. What I see is‚ the tension is caused by the deed of Ukraine to be a member of the EU or European Union. Therefore‚ Moscow would not want this because of their interests in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to form a military barricade in a part of Ukraine known as Crimea. Pro Russian Ukrainians raised Russian flags‚ brought chaos to the country. Kiev is now in deep trouble‚ facing the second strongest and dominant military

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    Red Scare Causes

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    nationwide fear of communnists‚ socialists‚ and anarchists conspiring to start a worker’s revolution. The Bolshevik Russian Revolution‚ which was when the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian monarchy and the communist Bolsheviks took over with their leader‚ Vladimir Lenin‚ was one of the main causes.This revolution lead to fear that immigrants‚ especially from Russia‚southern Europe‚ and eastern Europe‚intended to overthrow the government using the anger of the working class and the strikes to provoke fear.

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    Revolutionary Idealism

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    Why has the revolutionary‚ idealistic novel Animal Farm remained such an interesting piece of literature?[d][e] It encourages readers to think about the Soviet Union in a new way. Orwell took his in-depth[f] understanding[g] to create a setting using symbols‚ metaphors‚ themes‚ and characterization to embody the events of the Russian Revolution. He helped the readers to understand the accounts of the rise and development of soviet communism in the form of an animal tale. Thus[h]‚ throughout the novel

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    Draft ESSAY

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    Over time‚ the Russian land and people have changed to accommodate for their needs but they have also kept some aspects the same whether it was for the better or the worse. Throughout 1801 and 1939‚ many things changed in the Soviet Union while keeping many things the same. An aspect of the Soviet Union that changed between 1801 and 1939 was the shift of the government from a czar ruled totalitarian government to a more distributed communist government. In March of 1801‚ Paul I was killed and his

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    The major issues of social‚ economical and political instability combined with the class contradictions and the lost hope to be the winning power in WW1 is what triggered the February Revolution. The hungry and dissatisfied mobs of people domiciled in an Empire which was suffering from backwardness in several aspects came out to illustrate their discontent on the streets of Petrograd. Before this escalated and a large number of citizens joined the movement - one could argue that the consequences

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    school in Tiflis in 1894. While in Tiflis he came in contact with a secret society that that pushed for Georgia’s independence from Russia. This group also led Stalin to discover the writings and teachers of socialist thinkers like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Although he excelled in seminary school‚ he dropped out in 1899. No one really knows why‚ the school records say it was because he no longer had the money to pay for tuition but it is more likely that the school asked him to leave because

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    END OF THE WAR

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    government in Russia‚ they then decided to continue fighting against Germany and all the central powers. Towards the end of march. However‚ the German foreign office and the high command agreed to send one of the exiled Bolshevik leaders his name was Vladimir Lenin‚ and another 31 émigrés opposed to the tsarists and the liberals from Switzerland back to Russia. They did this in hopes that they would topple the provisional government and sue which would bring an end to Russia’s involvement in the war

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    revolutions collectively called the Russian Revolution completely changed the fabric of Russia. First‚ the February Revolution toppled the Russian monarchy and established a Provisional Government. Then in October‚ a second Revolution on orders from Vladimir Ilyich Lenin resulted in the Bolsheviks being the new leaders of Russia. Among all this confusion‚ Russia’s participation in World War I proved to be another problem. By the end of 1916 over 14 million men had been mobilized in the empire. The heaviest

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    personalities‚ and actions are similar to the actual men in power. In the novel Animal Farm‚ the pigs represent the communist leaders of Russia in the early 1900s. Old Major‚ the creator of animalism‚ represents both the original revolutionary‚ Vladimir Lenin‚ and the founder of communism‚ Karl Marx. Like these Russians‚ Old Major wants all individuals to be equal. Old Major is symbolic of Marx because‚ like Marx‚ he has a dream about the revolution. He says‚ " ’That is my message for you‚ comrades:

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