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 led by Trotsky. ... Moreover, suggested by Rose, the prohibition of all 'counter revolutionary' newspaper portrays the political corruptness of the party from the beginning whereas David Christian argues that censorship was compulsory to stabilize rule. ... Lenin realized that Russia was too fragile to face war with Germany and without stability or...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Graduate

In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, "effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party," the Bolsheviks. ... Eager to be rid of the NEP, the New Economic Policy, Lenin's benevolent intermediary capitalist economy, Stalin hoped to teleport the Soviet Union into his promised Socialist state in a revolutionary movement, not the projected evolutionary age. ...

• Word Count: 1534
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, "effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party," the Bolsheviks. ... Eager to be rid of the NEP, the New Economic Policy, Lenin's benevolent intermediary capitalist economy, Stalin hoped to teleport the Soviet Union into his promised Socialist state in a revolutionary movement, not the projected evolutionary age. ...

• Word Count: 1533
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate