Lenin believed that an outside force was needed to guide the working class into revolution. ... we answer: "We would propose peace to all the belligerents all the oppressed, and those who do not have equal rights And we would also raise in rebellion, the Socialist proletariat of Europe against their governments."1 Lenin believed that once a revolution occurred in Russia the notions would spread to the rest of Europe, with a Communist Russia at the helm. ... He did not believe it necessary for the Bolsheviks to be the catalyst of an international revolution. ... In 1917 Lenin created t...

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Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... The proletariat was seen as the backbone of the revolution and so to continue the revolution the proletariat had to be increased. ... These concerned were expressed at both high and low levels and the five-year plans were seen as both a revolution from above and a revolution from below. ... The Nepmen were prime targets, but Kulaks, the richer farmers, and bourgeois experts were seen as contrary to the claim of revolution. ... By giving them new, structur...

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