Lenin was a Marxist revolutionary with the desire to create a socialist Russia. ... Often, revolutionaries are too radical for the majority and their success depends on their ability to change. ... Realism called for, or at least in the eyes of the Bolsheviks, bloody fights to subdue the White Army, which often blanketed regions and developed into Civil War throughout Russia. ... Because idealism strives for goals that are revolutionary, they are often out of reach for the masses. ... This "realism- is the price idealism pays in the wake of revolutionary success. ...

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War can be described as world, revolutionary, intrastate and interstate. ... In Kenneth Waltz's writing in "Man, the State and War", he sets out three interconnected images of what causes wars. ... He argued that because of this tension, it would in turn lead to one or more revolutionary movements which in turn would take-over create socialism and rid the capitalist system, and then would lead to pure communism (Marx and Engels, 2008). ... Marxist theory suggests that because of the capitalist system it produces a class conflict, which leads to uprisings and revolutionary moveme...

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The provisional government attempted to continue the war effort. This decision to continue with the war soon became very unpopular. ... After returning from exile from Switzerland in April of 1917, Lenin began his conquest to reawaken his revolutionary socialist ideals. ... During the summer of 1918, a new civil war had begun. ... Also prominent in winning the civil war was the concept of war communism, in which the government took control of food supplies and all of the banks. ...

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There are two principal interpretations of war communism. ... Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... During the civil war Lenin had geared the economy towards the war against the opposition forces, the various strands of the divided "Whites". ... Ironically, the party which claimed itself the liberators of the workers began to exploit them and working conditions and management seemed to revert to pre-revolutionary practices. ... The Social Revolutionaries and The Mensheviks were prepa...

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The labour relations conflict was compounded during World War I and intensified when the war ended. ... In many ways Winnipeg was at war with itself. ... During the war, every able-bodied person was called to work to help with the war effort. ... In addition to the influx of people and the rise of unemployment, the conclusion of World War I also brought with it the rise of revolutionary industrial unionism and the formation of One Big Union (OBU). Revolutionary industrial unionism is "a broad international movement dedicated to organizing all workers into a single, unified, labour organization...

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The ideals set forth in the Manifesto were destined to influence revolutionaries all over Europe. ... Trier was the oldest city in the Rhineland, and as a result of it's annexation by France in the Napoleonic Wars had been exposed to notions such as freedom of the press, constitutional liberty and religious toleration. ... In 1845 Marx was ordered to leave Paris because of his revolutionary activities. He settled in Brussels and began to organize and direct a network of revolutionary groups, called Communist Correspondence Committees. ... He like many other revolutionaries wer...

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Fascism in Europe started to progress within several nations at almost same time - right after the World War I; countries that were involved the most occurred series of brilliantly victorious revolutions. ... The rebellion starts from forming a revolutionary party, such as worker's militia. ... A historical law states that fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where the conservative labor parties prevented the proletariat from utilizing the revolutionary situation and seizing power....

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Carl Marx, 1818-1883 was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary. ... It was intended to inspire workers to action, perhaps revolutionary action. ... The Communist Manifesto, while a brilliant document, did not survive the Cold War....

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Marx and Engels made clear that their revolutionary party was not to act independently of the working class, but on the contrary to be its most concentrated expression at all times. ... Marx and Engels provide us with an understanding of how the processes of global capitalism can to war, ruination of nature and starvation of people. ... This deterioration, which can be slowed down, but never stopped, creates within the proletariat a revolutionary element that will eventually destroy their bourgeois oppressors. ...

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This course examines American business from the colonial mercantile era through World War I. Topics include America as a developing economy; trade and commerce during the revolutionary period; the industrial revolution; the American system of manufacture; the labor movement and the coming of managerial capitalism. ...

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Proudhon was opposed to resorting to violent means and claimed, "Workers alone are capable of putting an end to war by creating economic equilibrium" (Proudhon 214). ... Charles Madison wrote, "He [Bakunin] rejected political action as a means of abolishing the state and developed the doctrine of revolutionary conspiracy under autocratic leadership" (Madison 44). ... He obviously had a great impact on some of the other revolutionaries of his time, and after, yet far from everyone was affected positively. ... Using anarchist in the Spanish Civil war as an example, anarcho-...

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"I will issue a few revolutionary proclamations to the peoples of the world and then shut up shop.... In Austria and Germany there was a wave of strikes, "a spontaneous movement of workers generated by a sudden reduction of bread rations" (Julius Braunthal) however "with strikes alone you can't compel an imperialist government to sign revolutionary peace proposals" (Otto Bauer). ... The result was a successful involvement in Outer Magnolia where a revolutionary party was formed, a provisional government of liberation and a native army, with the "People's...

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The classic socialist ideology of Robert Owen and Karl Marx, that had stood the Labour Party in good stead since its foundation was being re-forged and honed, the post war political scene was evolving into something entirely different to what had gone before. ...

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From the political point of view, they sinned by the fact that they inevitably, invited the peasant to adopt the attitude of a small proprietor instead of urging him to adopt the point of view of the revolutionary proletarian. ... Initiated by Leo Tolstoy it is best summed up in his own words, spoken in an address to the Swedish Peace Conference of 1909, "We must repudiate one of the two, either Christianity with its love of God and one's neighbor, or the state and its armies and wars."" ...

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If the Soviet Union were the face attack from these capitalist powers it would need a stronger industrial platform with which to launch a successful war effort. Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... However, it is quite possible that Stalin overstated the probability of war deliberately to push through his ambitions and to strengthen his personal power within the party. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the...

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Internationaly the European situation was a stressor, the Great War had only just ended and the revolution in Russia was still occurring. The situation at home had been altered by the war experience. ... Economic and social pressures pent up by the war were now being released into society. The example of the Russian Revolution, the brave new worlds and peaceful utopias of wartime oratory and idealism, had bred in many an unquestioning belief that peace would bring a different and far better Canada in which government would do vastly more for them than it had ever done before (Creighton, 1970...

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