The Russian Revolution of October 1917 can be seen as the first great surge of the future USSR. ... Lenin as an individual played an essential role in the October revolution. From February to the revolution Lenin managed to raise party membership from 10,000 to 200,000. ... Without Lenin's decisive leadership the Bolshevik party would not have been able to cling to power during 1920 and 1921. ... The Kronstadt sailors were hardened veterans of the Revolution and supported the Bolsheviks seizure of power. ...

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During the first six months, following the Bolshevik Revolution, they led with one vision and one leader, Lenin, despite some minor debates, and followed through the vital civil war period, where survival was she only goal. ... Following the successful revolution, the first 6 months of power was to a small extent shaped by differing visions and leadership conflict, with Russia following one ideology, led by an undisputed Lenin whilst conflict arousing from the peace treaty. Since pre-revolution, the Bolsheviks had direction and a leader, provided through the April theses and was implemented ...

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It can be seen that the Bolsheviks, although conclusive in their thoughts often determined their philosophy was not always the most effective. ... The ministry of foreign affairs was changed to the People's Commissariat of foreign affairs and led by Leon Trotsky; however he approached his job with the expectance of an immediate worldwide communist revolution. ... " He appealed to workers of the central powers to conduct their own revolution and while his pleas did not go unanswered they caused little result. ... " The Commintern implied Twenty one conditions for admission in to ...

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Animal Farm, George Orwell's novel about a group of animals who run their own farm, may appear to be nothing more than a "fairy story" at first glance. However, the events in Animal Farm are allegorical to Soviet Russian politics from 1919-1953. Specifically, many aspects of the plot of the novel ...

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When Stalin got Trotsky exiled, he removed all the other original Bolsheviks from key positions in order to establish complete control, in 1928. ... One by one, the old Bolsheviks were arrested, some shot, others forced to confess to ridiculous charges after torture in order to be saved or to save their families. ... " The names of his rivals were then removed from official histories of the revolution. ...

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This began when he assumed the name Stalin "man of steel" and it was this vision of him that drove him to lead the revolution that was to change the face of the Soviet Union forever. ... In order to begin his revolution he ensured there were no objections to him as leader through the elimination of party leaders such as: Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. ... This revolution was primarily concerned with making the Soviet Union strong and powerful enough to withstand any external threat. ... Stalin saw the Kulaks as a threat to the enforcement of his agricultural policy and in turn to his revolut...

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Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to defeat the Bolsheviks. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate