1. Russia and China - Civil War Comparison
He would read literature written by Karl Marx, a German political philosopher, and soon he would join the revolution called Russian Marxism. ... He would hold protests, and continue to network with other members of the revolution. ... The Whites wanted to take control from the Bolsheviks, and it turned out to be a very brutal, bloody war. ... Besides an Industrial Revolution Stalin set out to fix the lagging agricultural production in his five year plans. ... Almost all of the original Bolsheviks who had played a role in the Revolution where either executed or sent to the Gulog. ...
It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Stalin escaped from prison and turned to the Bolshevik branch which was lead by Lenin. ... Revolution Stalin played an important, but not vital, part in the revolution. ... The Bolsheviks won the civil war in 1920. ...
In 1917, Russia was going through a revolution which led to the removal of the last Tsar, Nicholas the second. This then concluded to the Bolsheviks becoming in power and transforming Russia into a country with a communist ideology. The Western leaders despised the idea of communism to the point where they sent troops to help stop the Bolshevik revolution from occurring, but these efforts were to no avail as the Bolsheviks overthrew the government and established Communism . The West's attempt of stopping the revolution convinced Russia that the West was against their new regime. ... The...
Historian André Fontaine, moreover, sees the starting point of the war in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and suggests that it was mainly due to the aggressive policies of the USSR in foreign policy, dictated by its Communist ideology. The Soviets justify their expansionism in accordance with their Marxist theory which advocated the need to spread revolution throughout the world. ... This was written before Karl Marx's Das Capital or the 'Communist Manifesto' and long before the Bolshevik Revolution, which leads us to think that the conflict between these countries i...
When World War I ended on November 11, 1918, peace talks went on for months due to the Allied leaders wanting to punish the enemy and "dividing the spoils of war." A formal agreement to end the war was made and called the Treaty of Versailles. The issue that took the most time were the territori...
The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. The socialist Bolshevik regime believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. Winston Churchill, British secretary of state for war wrote that, "civilisation is being completely extinguished over gigantic areas, while Bolsheviks hop on and caper like troops of ferocious Baboons." The allies felt they must try and crush the Bolshevik movement and sent in fourteen thousan...
Revolution in Russia (1917-1918) Summary The Great War dragged on from 1914 through 1917 with little change. ... Though out of chronological order, we will treat the impact of the Russian Revolution on World War I first. ... Seeds of the Russian Revolution, however, had been sown years before. ... Resulting in the deaths of scores of Russian workers and their wives, Bloody Sunday, as it came to be called, may have been the proximate cause of the Russian Revolution. ... Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the radical Bolsheviks gained a majority in the soviets and called for the violent overthrow ...
Furthermore the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918 and the Bolshevik Revolution made Russia's situation worse, as 1/3 of the population was lost in the unasked war and only to be left more vulnerable by the Russian civil war 1918-1923. Even though the revolution weakened Russia's industrial powers, the civil war was the final knock to the already weak Tsarist Russia and a clear path for some serious modernization. ... Linin made an impact on the modernization of Russia by leading the revolution. ... This allowed the followers to have desire about modernisation, as they were in the revolu...
The other party was the Bolsheviks, who promoted revolutionary ideas. Stalin escaped from prison and went back to join the Bolsheviks which was ran by Vladimir Lenin. ... To kick start the industrial and agricultural revolution he made the Five Year Plan. ...
Australia in the 1920's The Australian lifestyle changed greatly in the 1920's, and mostly for the better. Some main changes included the movement of "modern" women, new technologies, and the political threat of communism. This period reflected the relief and enjoyment of the end of the First Wor...
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...
World war one caused destruction to human life and property on such a scale that never had been witnessed before. The destruction didn't end there however as the pre-war political system also was destroyed. Thus the post war Europe saw differing political beliefs fighting for control. While the vict...
Joseph finally got the chance to meet Lenin in 1905 at a conference in Finland Lenin noticed that Stalin was very dedicated and loyal to Lenin's cause so Lenin appointed Joseph to work for his cause by raising money for the Bolsheviks by any means necessary this involved robbing banks and government money. ... In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a...
The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...
