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. ...
A true Anarchist: The Life of Emma Goldman Introduction To explain how Anarchism influenced everyday life for Jews in Amerika and especially the citizens of New York's Lower East Side, the ideas and visions of Anarchism's leaders must be thoroughly analyzed. To this end I would like to outline the lives of two of Anarchism's most important spokespeople who greatly influenced the Anarchist movement in America - Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. The reason why I chose these two people - especially Emma Goldman - is to be found in the extraordinary impression their liv...
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...
Josef Stalin was one of the few members of the Bolsheviks who was of true proletariat background. ... The main contributor was that he had been an active Bolshevik and a full time revolutionary since 1905, and had been the President of the Bolshevik conference in 1907; therefore he knew the details of the party's policies. In addition to this, Lenin regarded him as able and reliable, although in his Testament, Lenin had criticised him for his lack of enthusiasm for the Bolshevik seizure in October 1917. ... His positive aspects were that he had been a Bolshevik since 1903, and had worked ...
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...
There is evidence that more than half the people killed by Stalin's secret police at the time were previously loyal Bolsheviks and members of the party itself. ... Many of the original leaders of the Party, old Bolsheviks like Zinoviev, Kamenov and Bukharin, who still had the respect of many, found themselves on trial. ...
Since the inception of the United States, and the founding fathers signed documents that all "men" were created equal, the United States has been able to advertise of the "Land of Opportunity". In this paper, I will show that since the early 1900s and elite few placed in key positions in the United...
." - Dmitri Shostakovich On November 7, 1917, the Russian Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace and created a new form of government they called the Communist Party. In the first years of the revolution, anything and everything seemed possible; not just in politics, but in the arts as well. ... Shostakovich was only 11 years old when the revolution took place. ...
In all these actions, the model of the Russian Revolution, although it was only vaguely understood, encouraged the development of local radicalism. ... Neither party preached revolution, yet both urged wide-ranging social and economic reforms. The rising radical tide, especially seen against the backdrop of the Bolshevik revolution, worried other social groups. ...
To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regime in their country. The situation quickly deteriorated and on the 23rd of October the Hungarian troops, who had be...
To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regime in their country. The situation quickly deteriorated and on the 23rd of October the Hungarian troops, who had be...
To Lenin, defeat was unthinkable and he was prepared to make any and every sacrifice to win the war and save "the revolution-. ... In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. ... The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadership. (10) The Hungarians decided to overthrow the Stalinist regime in their country. The situation quickly deteriorated and on the 23rd of October the Hungarian troops, who had be...
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 ...
