The Russian Civil War lasted from October 1917 to October 1922. ... Without the leadership of Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, and Trotsky, by guiding the trusted Bolshevik civilians out of a safe war, the Bolsheviks wouldn't have won the Russian Civil War. ... While Lenin was being the political leader, Trotsky was his close partner that lead the Petrograd Soviet and the Soviet's Military-Revolutionary Committee. ... " This ended the Russian Civil War. ... That is why the Bolsheviks won the civil war....

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His political tactics and revolutionary ideas gave rise to his somewhat meteoric fame. ... Lenin's emergence as a revolutionary leader was during the pre-condition phase of the revolution, in1903. ... "(1) Lenin's Bolshevik party attracted the support from professional revolutionaries from the provinces. ... While most socialists either supported or disputed the war, Lenin viewed the war as a tool for bringing the Tsarist regime to its knees. ... "Convert the imperialist war into a civil war...

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• Grade Level: High School

Lenin was an inspirational revolutionary, contributing greatly to the Bolshevik seizure of power. ... Besides, the seizure of power was the work of Trotsky and the military Revolutionary committee, not just Trotsky alone. ... There was still much opposition to the Bolshevik rule, from the Social Revolutionaries and even from the ex-Tsarist officials. ... The new Bolshevik Regime was threatened by two forms of war, the Great War and the Civil War, both in which Lenin played a minimal role in quelling the unrest. ... Trotsky, as the Commissar of War builds the Red Army of over 5 million, to figh...

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The Liberals were a law-abiding, non-violent revolutionary group. ... Following the idea of Karl Marx, a German writer, another revolutionary group was created, the Social Democratic Party. ... The Mensheviks believed that revolutionary should be run by a large group with worker class included, it would be run democratically. The Socialist Revolutionary Party was one of the first groups to rebel against the Tsar. ... War communism was during civil war in 1918. ...

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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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In 1898 Stalin took his first step towards a revolutionary lifestyle when he joined a Marxist group in Tiflis. ... Stalin's first major revolutionary act was when he organised a May Day celebration where the Tsar's police began a crackdown on the organisers. ... The Mensheviks had a more traditional approach to Marxism, whilst the Bolsheviks had a more revolutionary approach. ... At the height of the Civil War, as a political commissar in the Red Army, he supervised military activities against the anti-revolutionary White forces. During the war between Russia and Poland, from 1920-...

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In 1899 Stalin dropped out (other sources say he was expelled) of the Tbilisi Theological Seminary to become a full time revolutionary. ... The temporary government was put in place, sharing some power with the revolutionaries. ... From 1918 to 1920 civil war broke out between the Bolsheviks (know as the Reds) and the Counter Revolutionaries (know as the Whites). ... Joseph was also a war commander on several fronts. ... Although the number of looses in the war are unclear, the Soviet Unions suffered the most loses of any country during World War II. ...

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He joined the Social Democratic party in 1901, and became a full-time revolutionary soon after that (The Unquiet 89). ... He also served as co-editor of a revolutionary newspaper for a while. ... Stalin's early years were those of a typical revolutionary or political activist. ... Stalin did well in WWII, managing to beat back Hitler after losing badly against him early in the war. Stalin made every major decision during the war, and completely controlled the Russian war effort. ...

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He joined the Social Democratic party in 1901, and became a full-time revolutionary soon after that (The Unquiet 89). ... He also served as co-editor of a revolutionary newspaper for a while. ... Stalin's early years were those of a typical revolutionary or political activist. ... Stalin did well in WWII, managing to beat back Hitler after losing badly against him early in the war. Stalin made every major decision during the war, and completely controlled the Russian war effort. ...

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The novel, though, was actually meant by Orwell to be a satire of Russia during its revolutionary period from the Czar Nicholas II to Trotsky and Stalin. ... Later on, Leon Trotsky, Stalin's Commissar of War and Chairman of the Supreme Military Council, became his greatest opposition and a dangerous threat to his absolute power due to his superior intelligence and ideas. ... Farmer Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Overthrown by the revolution and later executed by the Bolsheviks; Old Major is Marx and perhaps Marxist-Leninism; Boxer and Clover represent the proletariat (the urban industrial w...

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Animal Farm is an allegory through which George Orwell demonstrates the psychological foundation of revolution, its processes and the irony of displacement of an oppressive regime by the new revolutionary order. ... In Animal Farm, the Battle of Cowshed represents the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. ... It is therefore accurate to state that Animal Farm is an allegory, as it has more than one meaning, through which George Orwell demonstrates the psychological foundation of revolution (the basis of revolution), its processes (the events that occur thereafter), and the irony (opp...

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Robert Conquest wrote, "Stalin's war had a higher death toll than total deaths for all countries in World War I." ... But he was a genuine Marxist and revolutionary, the best student of Lenin among all the Bolshevik leaders. ...

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A clever reference to this power to manipulate information is made by Brean's character (DeNiro): "We're not declaring war on Albania. We're going to war. We haven't declared war since the Second World War!" ... Even the major issue of war can be de-emphasized simply by skewing the wording of the information. ... In both the historical and fictional cases, the idealistic but politically less powerful figure (Trotsky and Snowball) is expelled from the revolutionary state by the malicious and violent usurper of power (Stalin and Napoleon). ...

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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. ...

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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
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate