and the best one out there. In order for the people to understand what was going on in daily news‚ they would read what the journalists wrote. King Leopold II was able to colonize Congo with the help of the journalists and writers keeping quiet about what was really happening in Congo. King Leopold II was an ambitious man who only cared about the money and power. He was focused on buying land and in the 1870s‚ Africa was the best place to start a colony. To do all of this‚ Leopold pretended
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Troubles -anarchy and civil war -Poland invades Russia 1613 Michael Romanov is elected by an assembly of nobles to be tsar -beginning of the Romanov dynasty which ruled Russia until 1917 -brought stability to end the time of troubles -country was still weak and impoverished 1682 Peter the Great becomes tsar ruling with his half brother Ivan V until 1696 (his sister is regent until 1689) -came to power by the streltsy (guards of the Moscow garrison) -creates modern European power -promotes
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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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When we hear about the word succeed ‚ all of us just remember rough and hard road we have to pass‚ but is that really enough rough to pass? Human kind in their problems and difficulties divide in two groups‚ the one who always put the blame on everythings except themselves and they call themselves unlucky‚ and the ones who always put the blame on themselves and clarify that if they start something they have just 2 choices death or succeed. All the people are alive for their wishes they define it
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(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 considered
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How did Lenin and Stalin transform the society and economy of the USSR? After the devastation of World War I‚ the Revolution‚ and Civil War‚ Russia was a total wreck. Factories were in ruins and half the working class gone‚ either dead or returned to the farms. Millions had died‚ mainly from the famine and disease accompanying war. Two million more‚ mostly nobles‚ middle class‚ and intellectuals‚ had emigrated to other countries. Lenin returned to Russia from exile in 1917 and it was up to him
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How far was Stalin’s victory in the power struggle between 1924 and 1929 the result of the popularity of his policies? Even though Stalin’s victory in the power struggle was partly due to his popular policies‚ it was not just this that allowed Stalin also because of the mistakes made by other rivals and factors that played into his hands. For example Trotsky was a former menshevik which helped Stalin accuse him of not been a true Bolshevik. There are many reasons that suggest Stalin’s victory
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The question of this investigation is: “To what extent was Leon trotsky more valuable to the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution‚ rather than Vladimir Lenin‚ his superior?” The Russian Revolution was a key turning point in Russian history and in many ways is responsible for shaping the country into what it stands as now. At the helm of the revolutionary group‚ the Bolsheviks‚ was Vladimir Lenin and directly beneath him stood Leon Trotsky. It is important to make the distinction between the importance
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Why was there tension between Stalin and his people between 1928-1941? After Lenin’s death in 1924‚ the two leading candidates for his successor were Stalin and Trotsky-both with opposing ideologies in the manner in which the country should be run. Despite being a brilliant speaker and writer‚ Trotsky’s policy on a ‘permanent revolution’ worried people in the fear that the USSR would get involved with more conflicts while Stalin’s proposition of ‘Socialism in One Country’ was far more comforting
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4/22/13 Class world history ld History Activity People in Wor 19 P r o f i le 1 Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage . . . for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable. Mikhail Gorbachev in a 1987 speech on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. Joseph Stalin rose from a life of poverty to become the dictator of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. A brutal
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