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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Consider this statement regarding the situation in Russia and, in doing so, comment on the attitudes of Lenin and of the Germans to events in Russia in 1917, the main reasons for the collapse of the Tsarist regime in Russia in 1917 and the role played by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the revolutions in Russia in 1917. Lenin's attitudes to the events of Russia in 1917 were of eagerness to get back to Russia. ... Although Lenin did not play a significant role in the February Revolution, his role in the second revolution, "a planned coup" where a provisional government was overthrown, was v...

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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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Consider this statement regarding the situation in Russia and, in doing so, comment on the attitudes of Lenin and of the Germans to events in Russia in 1917, the main reasons for the collapse of the Tsarist regime in Russia in 1917 and the role played by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the revolutions in Russia in 1917. Lenin's attitudes to the events of Russia in 1917 were of eagerness to get back to Russia. ... Although Lenin did not play a significant role in the February Revolution, his role in the second revolution, "a planned coup" where a provisional government was overthrown, was v...

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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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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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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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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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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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They had completed a coup against the ever-unpopular capitalist government. ... When lenis had arrived he produced the April thesis, which listed 10 points that were all against the provisional government, Lenin had rejected the idea of the Provisional Government. These 10 points included the immediate end to the war, support for the provisional government would stop and the imperialist government would cease to exist. This thesis attacked the Provisional Government, however the Provisional government was going to be weak when it first started, this would be because the Russian people distrus...

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His idea was to collectivize all the farms so that they could produce more and be owned by the government. ... The farmers that worked on these farms had to hand over a certian amount of the produce no matter what to the government. ... There land was stripped from them and turned over to the government and if anyone disagreed Stalin would have them killed. The peasants were forced to work on the farms and paid when they brought in there goods to the government. ... Many people were killed and this were tooken by the government, but this made the Country better and stronger. ...

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This new group, known as the Bolsheviks, eventually became the ruling power in Russia. ... As food shortages increased during the early 1900's in Russia support for the Tsar rapidly decreased. ... The provisional government attempted to continue the war effort. ... Also during this time, old revolutionary groups that had been suppressed under Tsarist Russia resurfaced under the weaker provisional government. ... These eighteen self-proclaimed governments were constantly challenging the Bolshevik government. ...

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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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The Manifesto was a major step for the Russian people. ... Stage 4 Russia was later split into many parties. ... The Bolsheviks then came together and overthrew the Government. On November 7th the All-Russian Congress of Soviets declared that the procedure was successful and the Provisional Government was no longer in power. ... Stalin and a Revolutionary named Trotsky were the two contenders for the new Government. ...

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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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Joseph Stalin, a Russian dictator, is the counterpart of Napoleon in the story. ... He was a cruel man and showed it by making the peasants of Russia suffer throughout his reign as Czar of Russia. ... While the people of Russia were dying in poverty, most of the officials and leaders of the Russian Communist Government were living the high life off of the deceasing lower class. ... Stalin's tyranny mirrored this almost perfectly, as hundreds of Russians died at the hands of Stalin's government officials for treason. Joseph Stalin was the worst man that Russia had ever seen...

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Last November, the Bolsheviks led a massive revolution against Kerensky's provisional government. ... Now, they have full control of the city and have established a new Communist government under Lenin. ... But lately, there had been major opposition to the Government's policies. For starters, people were appalled at how Kerensky kept Russia in the war, continuing to support our country in the hopes of establishing greater freedom and democracy. ... In his first months as leader, Lenin made a call to end the war and announced that the 540 million acres of the land was to be handed...

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As early as 1933 FDR recognized the Soviet government in Russia (the USSR). This was done by an assignment of debts claimed against and owed to the Soviet government by foreign, especially U.S. creditors and debtors, to the U.S. ... Whether one liked or disliked the form of government that country had, we still had to deal with that government. ...

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This was primarily due to the fact that he saw to many similarities between the communist governments and the former Tsarist regimes in Old Russia. ... It is clear to see that the pigs and dogs take most of the power for themselves, seeing themselves as the best administrators of the "government". ... This of course resembles the actions of Stalin who murdered in order to maintain power of Russia. ... The cruelty of Stalin towards the Russian people is also shown through the character of Napoleon. ... Many commentator's correlate squealer with the Pravda, the Russian newspaper of the 19...

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Georgia was an independent country until the Russian Tsars conquered it. ... The students could have no privacy and were spied on by the Russian Orthodox monks. ... After the takeover of the government, Stalin became a member of the new government's Soviet of People's Commissars, heading the Commissariat for Nationality Affairs. ... During this time, Stalin re-married a Nadezhda Alliluyeva in 1918 and moved to Moscow because of his job in the government. ... He had started off as a young revolutionist, aiming for a better government and a better life. ...

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