The Russian revolution is the fundamental political and social upheaval that erupted in the Russian empire in 1917. ... Russia being a backward Empire had many disadvantages for the Russian population. ... Even so, the Russian soldiers faced difficulties led by the mismanagement of the government. ... The Russians lost confidence in their government's ability to cope with the deteriorating situation. ... Since the 1917 revolution Russia had grown into a well -rounded country in reaching this goal, The Russian Government controls virtually the entire economy now; placing heavy emphasis on ...

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The causes of the Russian Revolution start with the problems, when the duma declared the provisional government it took into hands not only the country but its problems as well, because the government inherited the economic problems it put a great strain on the country's resources thus affecting its performance to run the country properly. The decision by the government to continue the war effort was not like by the people, the reason why Kerensky wanted to keep Russia in the war was so that when they won the war he would be re-elected. ... The Mensheviks want a social reform but wanted i...

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This essay will talk about the Revolution of 1917 that took place in Russia. ... The main causes of the Russian Revolution are deep in Russia's history. ... Russia's badly organized and unsuccessful participation in the World War I made the people hate the bad government even more. ... The imperial government was quickly scattered. ... In conclusion, the working people of Russia were tired of being pushed so hard so they started to protest against the government; the protests were successful and the revolution was triumphal. ...

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"Discuss how the nature of the new society compared with the original goals of the revolution" In respect to the nature of the new society formed in Russia compared with the original revolutionary aims at the beginning of the century, many goals were left unrealized, and in fact the society of post-revolutionary Russia closely resembled that of the autocratic regime previously endured in Tsarist Russia. The definition of Russia's "new society" is troublesome, and it could be said that Russia's new society began after the 1917 revolution and ended in 1928, when Joseph Stalin came i...

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Totalitarian Governments use the people in a total movement to achieve a goal. ... The Russian nation was in a state of distress. ... Russia was falling way behind the rest of the world, and with the death of Lenin they were looking for a new leader. ... Trotsky and Stalin were the two candidates for the take over Russia's government. ... Earlier, in the nation of Italy, totalitarianism had been introduced before the grounds had been laid in Russia. ...

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As Russian wasn't Joseph's first language, he learnt it by the time he was nine. ... Each year you would have to hand over a certain amount of grain to the government which you would eventually get paid for. ... Stalin changed the whole world's perception of USSR and for the first time in history Russia was getting influence in Europe and was incorporated with a lot of European events. ...

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In 1918, Russia had its civil war. ... " Leader Vladmir Lenin led the Bolsheviks as they over through the government and gained power. After over throwing the government, the previous leaders who weren't executed, will attempt to regain power. ... In this war the Chinese, like the Russians, are battling nationalists and communism, or the government versus communists. The government in China is going to try to get rid of communists. ...

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The Bolsheviks continued to prostest against the current government in Russia and over time the political, social and economic discontent and the famous event know as 'Bloody Sunday', where the imperial guards shot and killed the protesting people of St Petersburg eventually pulled more followers over to the Bolsheviks. Lenin returned to Russia in 1917. ... While Lenin was overseas the head of the provisional government tried to win more support by resigning and placing Kerensky as the new prime minister of a new government, mainly made up of menshiviks and social revolutionaries....

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In contrast, a socialistic type of government is defined as " Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy" We have had the opportunity to witness, observe and analyze the consequences of socialism since its fall in 1989 during this generation. We have had a first hand opportunity to realize the ongoing failures of nations like Russia. Russia implemented socialism in 1917. The experiment turned out to be a fiasco that failed miser...

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"Declaration of the Rights of Man" and "Declaration of the Rights of Women" pleaded the government to allow all men and women, despite their class and ownership, the right to take part in what affected them through the government. Their idea was a democracy; a government controlled by the people rather than the person. ... The French embellished diversity while the Russians er1adicated it. ... The Russians were the first experimentation of communism, but failed on many accounts. One would include the fact that Russia never did follow the recipe left by Marx. ...

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The characters in Animal Farm favor the main personalities of the Russian Revolution. ... Leon Trotsky seized government buildings in Petrograd, and he arrested the members of the Provisional Government (Perry 661). ... The socialism displayed in Orwell's Animal Farm is equivalent to the Russian Revolution. ... The Russian revolution's key players are characterized in Animal Farm's main characters. Animal Farm's plot is similar to events that took place in the Russian Revolution. ...

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With the coming of the 20th century, socialism began to take hold in Russia. Russia's backward position relative to the West, its lack of arms, poor training, and corruption in the high levels of government and the army finally translated into unparalleled unrest with the Tsar Nicholas II. ... In October, the Provisional Government was itself overthrown by socialist radicals under Vladimir I. ... An ideal is "an ultimate object or aim of endeavor,"" one that politically is used to change the government of the country. Under Lenin, the Bolshevik revolution was an attempt to change the gov...

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The government confiscated all the agricultural products. ... Lenin made himself the dictator and uses terror as his chief instrument to rule over Russia. ... He was the head of the Soviet Communist party and the Russian Government in 1929. ... With the tactics coercion and force and the military, the citizen of Russia were like a puppet that were controlled by the Communist government; they know nothing about the politics or about the government. ... In the beginning, communism was a utopian ideal, which sounded outstanding to the Russian. ...

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One such alliance was the treaty of Rapallo with Germany "the German Bourgeois government has an implacable hatred of the Bolsheviks, but such is its international position that against its own desires the government is driven towards peace with Soviet Russia" (Lenin). ... The Soviet Union felt it was necessary in maintaining their policy of focusing only on Russia even though one of their greatest desires had occurred. ... Russia's foreign minister Litvinov claimed the league must be kept strong and focused on the idea of collective security. ... It was a result of Russia'...

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Tensions between Russia and the West have been high throughout history. ... Russia lost and tensions grew between the two. ... The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. ... These communist countries became satellites of Russia, nothing more than provinces of Russia. ... To Westerners, this Russian advance exceeded their worst fears. ...

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Another event that occurred during World War I, and continued in the immediate years following the war, was the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the successful formation of a Communist or Socialist state in Russia. The creation of the Soviet Union and its communist government led to a fear in the U.S. that communism could spread in America and the U.S. government would be overthrown just as the Russian government and its Tsar (the Russian King) had been replaced (Tsar Nicholas II was eventually murdered by the Communists along with his entire family). ... Eventually, the government began to crac...

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The Chinese have so many problems similar to those of Russia. ... Chaos is the reason that the army is so directly involved with the nation's government. Also, similarly to Russia the army controls the parties. ... The government aids the industries so it is very rare for a business to go bankrupt. ... The president is given full authority over all branches of government to insure that Government runs smoothly. ...

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Bolshevik ideology primarily began to subside from its Marxist roots during the October revolution in 1917 in Petrograd, when the party first seized power from Kerensky's Provisional Government. ... However, Lenin's April thesis presents Marxist ideology, as he strongly emphasizes Russia's readiness for revolution as a result of WWI. ... The government continued with demolishing the old machinery of coercion, the legal system, the police, conscription, bureaucracy, and discipline in the Red Army. ... Lenin realized that Russia was too fragile to face war with Germany and w...

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However Russia is the nation which has lent itself to the 'Great Men' of history. ... The development of the USSR can be considered the result of the blank canvas which Russia presented to its ruling elite, they painted their own vision of a communist Russia and as a result Russia undertook many great surges of growth and decline. ... "1 Many would argue that the 1917 October revolution would have not succeeded had it not been for the weakness of the provisional government, or the Petrograd soviets assistance. ... Steve Phillips on the other hand suggests that "By October 191...

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The aftermath of the second world war left the US and Russia as the highest dominant military powers, but they had completely different government regimes and economic regimes. ... The new Bolshevik Government had also signed a ceasefire treaty with Germany and negotiated a peace-treaty, The treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia's allies, the French and British, felt betrayal from Russia as they backed out from the war. ... This was false and at the face of this new threat, Russia quickly realized its 'allies' were in no rush to help them contain Hitler and his new system of Nazism a...

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In Russia, there were many food shortages which caused the people to demonstrate and then the Russian soldiers refused to suppress them and the leaders demanded that Nicholas transfer his power to parliamentary government because everything was getting out of control. Soviet workers and soldiers formed a special committee and established a government. ... Many lessons can be learned by reading Animal Farm that can help countries and governments around the world from making mistakes in wielding their power against their people. If a population is suppressed and not allowed ...

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In Russia, there were many food shortages which caused the people to demonstrate and then the Russian soldiers refused to suppress them and the leaders demanded that Nicholas transfer his power to parliamentary government because everything was getting out of control. Soviet workers and soldiers formed a special committee and established a government. ... Many lessons can be learned by reading Animal Farm that can help countries and governments around the world from making mistakes in wielding their power against their people. If a population is suppressed and not allowed to accumulate things ...

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Russia was essentially a one party state, with a government who had no detailed programme for leading the country. Lenin's government was presented with an immediate problem - the Bolsheviks had only won a quarter of the seats in the November elections for the Constituent Assembly. ... This claim to absolute authority by the Bolsheviks resulted in the Russian civil war, which took place between 1918 - 1920. The conflict was not just a matter of the Bolsheviks (Reds) facing their political enemies (Whites) in a military struggle, but a far more complex affair, with a number of Russia&#...

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Georgians possessed their own culture and language which was very different from the official Russian language of the empire, and the young Stalin only began learning Russian when he was nine years old. ... It is reported that in his last years his ability to speak Russian deteriorated and he spoke only Georgian. The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. ... His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded wh...

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The American government was created on righteous morals created out of the ashes of governments of the past that had failed such as, Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians. ... Since humans created this supposedly perfect government, and run it, then how can those just morals be applied? ... Kennan's public debate about halting the growing expansion of the very powerful and newly Communist Russia. ... With this argument stated and Russia feeling threatened because they know how the United States does business, it set off a whole line of explosions (not the destructive kind usually seen in ...

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