Lenin and the Russian revolution Introduction The Bolsheviks started off, in 1903, as the minority of the Social Democratic Party. As all anti-tsarist groups the party was illegal. The party was based upon the beliefs of Karl Marx, a German writer and revolutionary, who believed a revolution could only be started within the workforce of the major cities. ... To gain support Lenin made a secret police force, which was in charge of erasing any opposition to the party. ...

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Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator in the mid twentieth century, whose great fear of the rising communist party in both the Soviet Union and in America was reflected by a great deal of the country. ... McCarthy and many other republican politicians believed that the democratic party, along with President Harry S. Truman, were not harsh enough on the communist party and they strongly opposed Roosevelt's New Deal. ...

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When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into Menshevik and Bolshevik factions in 1903, Stalin joined the more militant Bolshevik party led by Lenin. ... Stalin gained a lot of control when he was elected secretary of the communist party in 1922. ...

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Then In 1912 Lenin and his supporters organized a party conference in Prague At this conference, Lenin formally broke from his Menshevik opponents and the rest of the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labor Party) to form an independent Bolshevik party. ... He arrived back in Russia on April 3 in Petrograd during the All-Russian Conference of Bolshevik Party Workers. ... When Lenin was building up the Bolsheviks lots of people started to look at them more seriously. he exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who arrived in Petrograd in May from America, agreed with Lenin's policy and joined the...

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The communist party was the only party allowed to exist in the Soviet Union. The party was run by Stalin and he demanded complete obedience from the party members. The Communist party was made to serve Stalin's needs and not those of the communist party. Stalin made his party seem like it was democratic and like it suited the peoples needs by compelling them to vote in elections. Since there was only one political party, the voters were forced to vote for Stalin. ...

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The next year, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Party after meeting one of its members. The Party was founded in 1898. ... Vladimir Lenin was one of the leaders of the party. ... During this time the Russian Social Democratic Party split into two groups, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. ... In 1912, Lenin promoted Stalin into the leading Bolshevik Party. ...

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He then met members from the Social Democratic Party and joined them. ... While he was in jail, the Social Democratic Party than split into two parts. One of the parties was Mensheviks, which were more traditional ideas. The other party was the Bolsheviks, who promoted revolutionary ideas. ...

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The French revolution was the catalyst that ended the system of monarchy and aristocratic privilege and brought about the emergence of the common man and democratic rights in France. ... Lenin changed the course of Russia by ensuring that his party would resort to dictatorship rather than bow to the will of the masses. ... It was essentially a democratic document that proclaimed the sovereignty of the people. ... Utopian visions of a democratic state seemed almost tantalisingly achievable. ... Lenin, the father of communism, believed it the job of his party to exercise control of society...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... The Communist Party invaded and controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ... Soviet troops were calle...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... The Communist Party invaded and controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ... Soviet troops were calle...

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All opposition parties were banned although parties who were sympathetic to communism and who shared the communist ideals were allowed. All power was concentrated into the hands of the Communist party. ... The Communist Party invaded and controlled every aspect of political, social, cultural and economic life. ... In 1936 Stalin began what became known as the "purges- whose function it was to try members of the communist party who had acted treasonously. (5) The result of these was that five thousand party members were arrested and stripped of their membership. ... Soviet troops were calle...

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In 1917 all these things resulted in the overthrow of the czarist government and the establishment of the Bolshevik Party. The Bolshevik Party was a radical group of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. ...

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The single party system made it easy for a totalitarian style leader to take hold of the reigns of power. ... This gained him support from the lower and middle classes and directly attacked the socialist party. ... Hitler was smart, he did not openly attack democracy and bring the direct scrutiny of its democratic oppressors, and he played the nationalism card, and used the Treaty of Versailles as the oppressor. This alone could not have brought the small Nazi party to power. ...

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Also, similarly to Russia the army controls the parties. ... The US, should support the radicals in China and help them to over throw the communist party so that the Chinese can move on. ... By allowing the people to elect a President, they would be getting the structure they craved and at the same time the democratic system that they need. ...

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The Party tried to subdue China, bring inflation down and lessen corruption throughout the country. ... This reform began when students and workers gathered up in Tiananmen Square to protest to change the government into a new democratic system. ... The Chinese people were treated so unfairly because of the absolute control by the Communist party. ... And the biggest problem is that there was no one that could stop the Communist Party (The Rise). ... In the end, he, along with the Communist Party as a whole, killed millions of their own citizens. ...

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The society in the book is an optimistic and very democratic one. The fundamentals in which their society is based on reminds me of those of any democratic form of government. ... I find this to be the most democratic commandment of all. Also what I found to be very democratic about their society is that there are multiple parties in control of their society. ... I believe that debating is essential to any democratic society. ...

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By the summer of 1920 he considered himself a Marxist; a year later he was one of the twelve men to found the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. ... In the fifth attack the Red Army was defeated by one million Kuomintang troops due to poor tactics employed by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. ... The armed forces of the Chinese Communist party were setting up bases, working with the people, and establishing the social revolution for China even as the military fought the Japanese enemy. ... Mao and the Communists were not recognized by the United Nations (Even today com...

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The president and his administration prosecuted anyone who seemed deceitful to their country and involved with the Communists party. ... The Hollywood Ten for example, famous actresses, actors and directors who were accused of being involved with the Communist Party and their lives were forever ruined. ... The government's paranoia of the Communist party escalated once again during the war of Vietnam. ... Even though that was courageous act one of the most memorable demonstrations held at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. ...

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His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded which for the first time created a political party that all Russian Marxists could belong to. ... After the Bolshevik and Mensheviks split was final lenin was able to choose new men to run his parties central commitee. ... In 1922, the Communist Party's Central Committee elected Stalin as its general secretary. ... In December 1929, the party praised Stalin on his 50th birthday. ...

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The government is totalitarian which means that everyone is under the rule of the centralized government and parties with opposing opinions are not tolerated. ... Democratic socialism states that the means of production should be in the hands of the ordinary working people. ...

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In a speech at Wheeling, on February 9th Senator McCarthy claimed to have in hand a list of 205 people in the State Department known to be members of the Communist party. ... Some lost their jobs after they admitted they had been members of the Communist party. McCarthy made it clear to witnesses that the only way of showing that they had abandoned their left-wing views was by naming other members of the Communist party. In the 1950 elections McCarthy ensured the defeat of several Democratic senators who had dared question and oppose him. ...

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In a world of battling monsters, Canada seemed quiet during the constant dissension of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Although the Cold War focused mainly on the two most powerful countries of that time, this event, lasting approximately four decades, shaped our humble c...

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Duong Thu Huong worked for the Communist Youth Brigade at the age of 20 but was expelled from the communist party in 1989. She has been imprisoned numerous times for her outspoken support for human rights and democratic political reform and is no longer allowed to leave Vietnam. ...

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Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of democratic Socialism. ... After Lenin-s death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. ...

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Animal Farm is a criticism of Karl Marx, as well as a novel perpetuating his convictions of democratic Socialism. ... After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. ...

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