Through sheer force of personality alone, Lenin was able to push forward the revolution. ... Lenin had a clear direction as to what he wanted the Bolsheviks to do, and his pre-revolution strategy alone gave the Bolsheviks strength and set it in good stead. ... Lenin's leadership and ability to lead the Bolsheviks is also undeniable, the October 1917 Revolution being one that required a great amount of planning and a great amount of organization to make it succeed. This success did not come solely on spontaneous discontent or the failures of the provisional government, Lenin's awe-ins...

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The latter which represented factory workers, social revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was to guide the revolution. ... At the same time, the masses became attracted towards the Bolsheviks, whom they regarded as the true champions of the revolution. The Bolsheviks became the majority party in most of the Soviets by October 2. ... Since the October revolution was a deliberately planned coup d'état by Lenin and the Bolshevik controlled Petrograd Soviet, Lenin is rightly considered to be the Father of the Bolshevik Revolution. ... The Bolshevik Revolution is still going on....

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Russian Revolution This essay is about the November 1917 revolution, the events that led up to and contributed to the revolution and Lenin's role in the revolution. ... The reasons why the revolution was a success and Lenin's role in that success. ... According to Lenin the working class were to be the people that would lead the revolution but he believed and knew that the people could not so he and the Bolsheviks would lead the revolution on behalf of the working class. ... The Bolsheviks were also flexible to certain extent, this was shown when Lenin created the NEP, many ...

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The revolution had gone further than anyone had expected. ... As with France, the Russian revolution began as a protest against tyranny. ... When the inevitable seizure of power did take place, the Bolsheviks did so with relative ease. ... Essentially, what the Bolsheviks wanted was as much opposed to the real desires of the people, as had been the policies of the provisional government. ... He adopted stern and cruel measures to deal with counter-revolutions. ...

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Why was there a second revolution? ... How did the Bolsheviks succeed? Russia, after the first revolution, was split into two opponent powers. ... But they didn't, and the fact that they did not hold the elections became just another reason for the people to distrust them and the Bolsheviks to prepare for a new revolution. ... My conclusion will be that there was a second revolution in Russia in November 1917 because of failing policies from the Provisional Government, Bolsheviks being well organized and disciplined, the Kornilov affair opening doors for lucky Bolsheviks and good ...

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LENIN"S ROLE IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. ... The revolution is a crucial event in our modern times. ... This once again supports the theory that Lenin was the driver of the revolution and without him the revolution may have occurred but not gained the support or power needed. A man named Valentinov on arrival in Genova in 1904 was "shocked by the atmosphere of worship of Lenin which people calling themselves Bolshevik's had created"(4) Menshevik and Bolshevik differences were found to face the real dilemma of politics during the 1905 revolution and duma period. ... The Bolsheviks fo...

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The second Revolution was needed for Russia to establish economic growth. ... The Bolsheviks government took possession of industry and abolished private ownership of land. The revolution was needed for the growth of the economy. ... Also Russia has undergone a political, economic, and social revolution. ... If the two revolutions were not needed how would Russia be today?...

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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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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... The Bolsheviks also introduced the banning of private trade. ... The peasants also suffered at the hands of the Bolsheviks. ... Given Lenin's passionate desire for revolution and to implement socialism it may be argued that at the time Lenin and other Bolsheviks believed that they were establishing socialism. ... Pipes argues that "War Communism as a whole was not a 'temporary measure' but an ambitious and as it turned out prematur...

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In 1903 the Social Democratic Party split into two different groups, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks believed that the revolution should be lead by a small group of dedicated and skilled revolutionaries, they would lead the party and make all the decisions. ... Lenin wanted to get back to Russia to start another revolution and became allied with the Germans who gave him safe transport into Russia. ... The theory said that it was the time to start another revolution but Bolsheviks disagreed with the timing, and were later to be proved right. ... This lead to the consolidation...

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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. ...

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Why was there Revolution in Russia in March 1917? There were many reasons for a revolution in Russia in March 1917. ... There were seven main opposition groups with 3 predominant ones, - the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks, and the Social Revolutionaries. These three groups all wanted to get rid of the Tsar, but the Mensheviks weren't prepared to use force, whereas the Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries were. ... Moscow decided to join in the revolution. ...

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Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. ... Historian Lionel Kochanii argued that 'Bloody Sunday is to be one of the key events which led to the end of Tsardom and also the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... Under the rule of Lenin and the Bolshevik party, 1917 "1923 the forces of reaction were successful in preserving a dic...

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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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During this time the Russian Social Democratic Party split into two groups, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. ... In 1904, Stalin escaped from Siberia back to Tiflis and joined the Bolsheviks. ... In 1912, Lenin promoted Stalin into the leading Bolshevik Party. ... The Russian Revolution began and Stalin organised many strikes and demonstrations. ... This cycle of arrests, exiles and escapes went on for the next several years leading up to the Russian Revolution in 1917. ...

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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...

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Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was won over to Lenin's position following the latter's return from exile in April, but played only a secondary role in the Bolsheviks" seizure of power on November. ... During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ... Stalin consolidated absolute power in the 1930's with the Great Purge against his suspected political and ideological opponents, most notably the old Bolshevik members. ... Only two membe...

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With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the farm and that in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution and under the rule of Joseph Stalin. ... These two poems, in fact, constitute the driving forces behind the two major patterns of attitudes of the animals in the novel, namely revolution and submissiveness. ... Historically, the leaders of th...

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It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. ... Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. ... Snowball represents Trotsky, a Russian leader after the revolution. ... (Gardner, 97) What was established in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution was not true communism ("animalism"), which Orwell approved of, where the people owned all the factories and land. ... Dickens also expresses his disillusionment with some of the outcomes of the French Revo...

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It is an example of social criticism in literature in which Orwell satirized the events in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. ... Besides the central theme of love, is another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. ... Snowball represents Trotsky, a Russian leader after the revolution. ... (Gardner, 97) What was established in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution was not true communism ("animalism"), which Orwell approved of, where the people owned all the factories and land. ... Dickens also expresses his disillusionment with some of the outcomes of the French Revolution. ...

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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 ...

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These Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. ... Nationalist Americans called for the stop of the Bolshevik Revolution that was taking place in America. ...

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In 1919 there were revolutions throughout Germany, especially Berlin, backed by the Bolsheviks and Communists. ... With so many strikes and violence, there were fears of a Bolshevik/Communist take over 3. ...

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Old Major-s role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. ... Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. ... In Russia, the Bolsheviks carried out propaganda on the people by passing out leaflets and putting stories in the newspapers that were not true. ... Russian Revolution, Grolier npa). ... Russian Revolution of 1917. ...

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Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. ... Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. ... In Russia, the Bolsheviks carried out propaganda on the people by passing out leaflets and putting stories in the newspapers that were not true. ... ("Russian Revolution," Grolier ). ... "Russian Revolution of 1917." ...

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