Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilich Lenin was born on May 4‚ 1870. In school‚ he was very bright‚ and enjoyed reading and writings of Goethe and Turgenev. Lenin’s father died of a cerebral hemorrhage and his brother was hung for plotting to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Lenin was finally accepted to the Kazan University where he studied law. He was expelled‚ and later studied law on his own and passed the exam in first in a class of 124 people in 1891. In 1895‚ Lenin traveled to Switzerland
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"A great luck for Russia was that at the times of hardships she was headed by such a genius and talented commander as Joseph Stalin." W. Churchill Stalin was a man of extraordinary energy‚ erudition and a powerful will. Him even I‚ a person taught by the Parliament‚ could not counter. W. Churchill "Stalin is the Lenin of today‚" said a popular propaganda slogan of the thirties and the forties. The situation has changed drastically since that time; people ’s opinion of Stalin has changed
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22 April 1870-Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov was born in Simbirskon the Volga River‚ Russia. 24 January 1887-Shortly after the death of his father hisbrother was executed (for plotting to kill the Tsar). 1887-While studying at the university in Kazan Leninbecomes involved in politics. He participates in a numberof protests‚ forms important alliances and organizes anumber of different political groups. In December he isarrested. Lenin is expelled from Kazan University because of
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The Hippie Movement was the most well known and influential movement of the 60’s.The countercultural movement originated as a youth movement in college campuses around the US‚ eventually spreading into the UK and Canada. Not only was it a political movement‚ it was also a lifestyle. The Hippies had an array of concerns but the main tenet was about being happy. Most rejected large institutions‚ the middle class‚ and conformed society. Their attitudes toward life contained little thought or concern
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Mr. Wade 28/01/14 How successful was Lenin (1917-1924) in solving the problems he faced? With the October revolution in 1917‚ Lenin managed to execute a successful coup d’état against the provisional government of Russia and with the death of the constituent assembly early 1918; Lenin and his Bolsheviks had finally control over Russia. However this was just the beginning of various problems he would be facing. This raised the debate on whether Lenin could deal with these problems or not
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Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky was a Russian leader of the Bolshevik revolution. He was born in the Ukraine with the name of Lev Davidovich Bronstein on November 7‚ 1879. As a young man he attended the school of Odessa. In 1897 he was arrested for two years and was then sentenced to Siberia because he had helped fund the South Russian Workers` Union. While in prison‚ he met his first wife Alexandra Lvovna with whom he had two daughters with. After he completed his two year sentence in prison Trotsky
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biased results. Plus‚ the jury selected‚ was made up entirely of white men who were clearly in favor of the two white women. The Scottsboro Boys’ Trials eventually shaped the way for the direction in which discrimination in the United States progressed over time. The Scottsboro Trial created the pathway for other important events soon to happen during the 1900’s. To begin‚ on March 25‚ 1931‚ nine young men were riding a train traveling between
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Life was hard for the poor in Russia during the revolution they worked very 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
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the identity in the British Empire and the world. The Australian soldiers made the world aware of a new nation fighting force on the other side of the world. Gallipoli‚ The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-1916‚ also known as the Battle of Gallipoli. It was an unsuccessful attempt by allied powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War 1. Continued with a major land invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25. Lack of sufficient intelligence and knowledge of the terrain‚ along
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Lenin and Stalin are the leaders who were known to be one of the most influential of Soviet Union. Lenin is known as the “father figure” and the creator of communist USSR. After Lenin’s rule in Soviet Union‚ Stalin began to rule the Soviet Union for approximately three decades. I consider Lenin’s program better than Lenin‚ but It should not be said that Lenin was unwilling to use violence. Seasants’ harvests were forcibly demanded by the state‚ because of his idea that it would all go to the State
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