Throughout the period of 1917 to 1941 the majority of the many changes in soviet foreign policy were not results of pre-determined ideology, but rather a pragmatism that resulted from the varying situations. ... " 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. ... It was a result of Russia's lack of warfare material and an army that needed to be increased as well as Britain's insistence on not siding with Russia. ... "The German forces must be prepared to crush Soviet Russia i...

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The Devils is a story of revolution and religion. It is commentary on both socialism and the infant Russian Nihilist movement. ... In some way he saw the direction Russia was heading before it knew it was heading that way, predicting some of the events and policies of Communist Russia. In the early 20th century Russia before the Revolution of 1917, there were many prophecies such as these concerning the coming of atheism to Russia. ... Russia is the first country to experience the Communist yoke and wake up to survive it; despite the continued reign of Communist tyranny in Russia, atheism...

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On March 12, 1917, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty threw Russia into a state of confusion. In May of 1917, the reformed provisional government took control of power. ... Lenin knew that the majority of the Russian population was peasants and used their darkening situation as the Bolsheviks basis for revolution. ... By advocating a revolution of behalf of the workers he took charge of peasantry land issues, promised an end to the food shortages, and resolved to end the military conflict between Russia and Germany. ... Eventually, the Bolshevik r...

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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. ... Not only was the revolution un-Marxist in character, as David Christian discusses, it was meticulously carried out by a small group of trained revolutionaries to initiate secure control of Russia – the Military Revolutionary Committee le...

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During the years of 1917-18 he encountered food shortages, war and a vast amount of strikes. ... Lenin firmly believed that revolution was imminent in Germany and thus when he was required to sign the dictat in the treaty of Brest-Litovsk he did not have a single problem. ... In 1917 Lenin introduced "State Capitalism" and this can also be seen as a compromising measure. This was largely due to the lack of authority over the Russian economy. ... Lynch makes this point when he says "all Lenin's economic policies from 1917 until his death in 1924 can be seen as a response to the basic quest...

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Valdamir Ilyich Lenin was a socialist who lived from 1870 to 1924; he was a Russian Revolutionary, the founder of Bolshevism and the major force behind the Revolution of October 1917. ... Lenin knew the proletariat needed to be led to revolution in order for social revolution to occur. ... The Russian revolution was seen as setting the stage for greater social revolution in the West. ... Lenin used and implemented many of Carl Marx ideas when he was working towards the revolution in Russia. ... The ideas that Lenin brought to Russia and to the Marxist theory were huge reasons as to why Rus...

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However, George Orwell used Animal Farm as a way of portraying a far more significant event - The Russian Revolution of 1917. ... This idea conveys the way in which human nature takes it course and also shows the vicious cycle that a revolution such as the Russian one entails. It is therefore clear to us as the reader that Orwell used Animal Farm as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and as a result many of the characters described are in actual fact symbolising real characters that played a part in the make up of the Russian Revolution. ... It is evident that Napoleons" characteristics r...

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However not only liberals got their ideas from the French Revolution, as Woolf states . The Socialist [second] International was formed in 1889, in honour of the centenary of the French Revolution . ... In the case of Russia, the revolution of 1917 achieved its aims of a socialist republic. Although in the case of Russia huge change took place, in Western Europe change was unlikely to occur as it was much more stable politically than the East. ... While the French Revolution brought enlightenment many people were still loyal to their country's leaders- including, in places like Engla...

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At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put during World War I in order for the armed forces to be able to conscript more Americans. ... 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. ... One of the first assignments of this agency was to raid The Union of Russian Workers in New York. ... On December 27, around 250 deportees sailed for Russia from...

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At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put in place during World War I for the armed Forces to be able to conscript more Americans. ... In 1917, the US government made a law which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to arrest or deport any alien "advocating or teaching" destruction of property or the "overthrow of government by force." ... Palmer used the laws set down in 1917 to deport members of the IWW. ... There, Russian immigrants identified with the Bolshevik revolution in Mother Russia because of their similar lives of poverty and squalor. ...

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