Reasons for Entering the War It initially entered the War over control of Mancuria and Korea as Russia wanted more power and land expansion. ... The Effects of War The more profound effect of the War was the shift in Russia's, and most importantly the Tsar's, reputation. ... In addition to this, bad harvests led to severe shortages, inflation and famines- making the peasantry more desperate and likely to turn to radical parties or revolutionaries. ... Such opposition to Tsarism laid the foundations for the formation of the Socialist Revolutionaries, among other radical groups. ......

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In Russia, Lenin became a threat as he was a revolutionary leader who gained many supports from the Russian people because of his promise for Peace, Bread and Land'. ... Young men were conscripted; children made bandages; married men made armaments; women made uniforms and tents; old men sang revolutionary songs. ... The decrees however led to riots as peasants were not willing to contribute to the war efforts, instead end the war. ... Soldiers started riots and in the war front soldiers began to desert in ever-increasing numbers- (Fiehn, 1996, p 41) as a result of poor conditions and ...

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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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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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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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The event presented the government as using terror ineffectively to preserve autocracy, in that era due to the numerous revolutionary groups; such force only backlashed which ruined support for the Tsar. ... Additionally the defeat of Russia in the World War, increased levels of discontent, reducing the chances of sustainability in regards to the Imperial system. ... The issue of a terrorist state arises with a revolutionary group which supposedly was to create socialism in one country'. The irony lies in the fact that a revolutionary group which had once been terrorized were now using te...

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Terror was used to suppress counter- revolutionaries who would try and change the government once again. ... With Operation Barbarossa underway the war became a war of annihilation against the "Judaeo-Bolshevik" foe. ... By the end of the war between five and six million European Jews had been killed. ... The Cheka enforced the revolution and made sure that no counter- revolutionary action could take place "counter-revolutionaries were "to be shot on the spot . ... China soon came under threat from counter-revolutionaries backed by a foreign nation. ...

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The Petrograd Soviet had its basis in the Petrograd working class, and consisted of mostly Social revolutionists, Mensheviks and other political groups growing with revolutionary ideas. ... Russia was also impoverished after many years of war. ... The fact that the February Revolution had it rising from a bread-queue, had not affected the results of the policy of the revolutionary government. ... Another good reason for trying to put an end to the war, no? ... It appeared that they had been affected by the propaganda of the Social Revolutionaries and the Bolsheviks. ...

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The entire Petrograd garrison and the police, joined the revolution by February 27, and by the following day, Petrograd fell into the hands of the revolutionaries. ... The latter which represented factory workers, social revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was to guide the revolution. ... They formed the Military Revolutionary Committee under Leon Trotsky. ... The Revolution also enabled the Soviet Union to emerge from World War II as the second super power; the first being the U.S.A. ... Thus a war was declared between totalitarian dictatorship and democratic socialism, between Marx...

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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 Armenian Revolutionary Federation, or Dashnaks wanted an autonomous Armenia within the Russian and Ottoman Empires, and the Hunchak party moved for an independent socialist Armenian state. ... During World War I, the Ottoman Empire deported or massacred nearly all of the Armenians living in Anatolia due to suspicion of pro-Russian sentiments. ... By the end of the war, over 800,000 Armenian casualties resulted from these massacres, and atrocities continued into the 1920s without European or Russian intervention. ... The Soviet Union outlawed the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in 1923, o...

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This presented a problem to the autocracy in that it was dangerous (from a revolutionary point of view) to have so many discontent people (around 3 million) so close to the centers of power. Any revolutionary sentiment that arose was crushed and society was kept under the thumb of the autocracy through harsh oppression. ... Like in the 1904-5 war against Japan, Russia's army was again poorly equipped. Nearly a million men started the war with no rifles and many more had no boots. ... During the course of the war, the Duma was also in turmoil. ...

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An anti-revolutionary and anti-Semitic league known as the Black Hundreds' also had the unofficial approval of the Tsar. ... The Okhrana was an organisation that was founded to combat political left wing revolutionary activity and terrorism. ... The Black Hundreds organised massacres of revolutionaries with the unauthorised consent of the Tsar. ... Primarily on the advice of himself and the Tsarina, "Nicholas made the disastrous decision to assume personal control of the war effort."" ... With industrialisation, a new educated class and the revolutionaries, reform was inevitable. ...

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There were seven main opposition groups with 3 predominant ones, - the Mensheviks, the Bolsheviks, and the Social Revolutionaries. These three groups all wanted to get rid of the Tsar, but the Mensheviks weren't prepared to use force, whereas the Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries were. ... As the First World War continued into 1917, ordinary Russian people too were becoming downhearted, as their situation was getting worse. The army had been badly defeated in the war with more than two million killed, 2 million injured and a further 4 million taken prisoner. As the Tsar was the head o...

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Several crises almost led to general European war in the decade before 1914. ... Austria declared war on Serbia and immediately began to bombard Belgrade on 28 July 1914. Austria wished an excuse for a war with Serbia, because had interests in the Balkans where the nationalism sentiment, headed by Russian Emperor, has been risen prior the war. ... Consequently, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August and on 3 August on France. ... When Poincare' (President of France) refused to withdraw support for Russia, Germany also declared war on France (3 August) and privately expressed his re...

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At this time, war with Japan was impending. ... The defeat in this war and the expense it incurred were direct causes of the revolution which occured just a few weeks later. ... Second, it split the revolutionary front, reconciling the most cautious elements among the moderates, who had no heart for violence, with a government which promised to end the abuses of autocracy. For the first time in the history of Russia, millions of people in the cities and in the villages took part in a revolutionary movement. ...

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Soldiers returning back from the war against Japan rebelled. ... People wanted Russia to stop the war. ... With Petrograd in the hands of revolutionaries, Nicholas had no choice but to abdicate the throne. ... When the Revolution was reignited in 1917, the Revolutionaries had more support than the tsar and the determination to accomplish their goals. ... Lenin quickly pulled Russia out of World War I. ...

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He was captured by the Germans during World War II, but escaped and arrived back to the Red Army hoping to be accepted as a hero, but instead was accused of treason and spying for the Germans. ... In fact, the worth of an individual's life to Stalin's eyes was so low that during the Second World War, his generals sent their own troops without weapons to act as meat shields or detonate hidden mines. ... The book was revolutionary to the Soviet people because it brought the awareness of the atrocities committed by the government against its own people. ... This book was a great assis...

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In the last years before World War 1 there was no reason to believe that revolution was inevitable, much less imminent in Russia. ... There were many revolutionary groups each planning to destroy the old system to put in new ideas instead. ... The majority of the soviet was made up of social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks. ... He also wanted to continue the hatred war when everyone wanted peace. ...

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At the time, Russia lagged economically behind European countries as a direct result of World War I from 1914-1918 and the Russian Civil War from 1917-1922. ... World War I and the Russian Civil War led to the establishment of a Communist government in Russia, which leveraged its tight control on the film industry in order to forge unity amongst all social classes. ... The Russian Civil War was fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the Anti-Bolshevik White Army. ... Vertov made Man with Movie Camera so Russia as a whole could apply the revolutionary communistic ideals and work together as ...

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"It is history that provides a stimulating new approach to an understanding of pre-Revolutionary Russia." ... Alexandra began to trust his opinion on an ever-widening range of issues, to the point where he was advising her, while Nikolai was at war, on the hiring and firing of government ministers. ... Another event that troubled Nicholas" reign was a humiliating war with Japan. ... Even greater losses, however, were suffered in World War I (the second war during Nicholas" reign), which Russia entered on the Allied side in 1914. ... His reign was one of continual trouble: Witte's reforms ...

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Summary of the Content of the Document The 'percentages agreement' was taken from Churchill's (1953) 'The Second World War, Vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy'. During the final year of the war, the British premier, Winston S. ... Every time the losses from the Russian were considerable, but the losses during the WWII were unprecedented, which required Stalin to make sure that this kind of devastating war does not emerge again for Soviet Union. ... Firstly, in general, the Greek Civil War was viewed as treachery and a blatant breach of the 'percentages agreement'...

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War was greeted by immense jubilation by both sides, as no great wars had been fought since Napoleon's era. ... prepared or the inevitable war with Germany. ... Russia was suffering revolutionary movements and rebellions. ... It was the first real month of the war. ... A one-front war would have been an easier war for Germany. ...

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