The latter which represented factory workers, social revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was to guide the revolution. ... At the same time, the masses became attracted towards the Bolsheviks, whom they regarded as the true champions of the revolution. The Bolsheviks became the majority party in most of the Soviets by October 2. ... Since the October revolution was a deliberately planned coup d'état by Lenin and the Bolshevik controlled Petrograd Soviet, Lenin is rightly considered to be the Father of the Bolshevik Revolution. ... The Bolshevik Revolution is still going on....

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Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . ... 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. ... Stalin appealed to that "Great Russian chauvinism" and to the Bolsheviks and many citizens who retained a fervent C...

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Modern World History Joseph Stalin led the Socialist Soviet Union in the "Revolution from Above," a movement to centralize the government and transform society without popular participation . ... 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. ... Stalin appealed to that "Great Russian chauvinism" and to the Bolsheviks and many citizens who retained a fervent Co...

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Stalin joined up with the Bolshevik revolutionaries. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution took place. This was when the government led by the Tsars was overthrown and Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power. After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, Stalin gained control of the party. ... George Orwell and other supporters of the Russian Revolution were disillusioned. ...

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Russian Revolution began with the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917. ... A political party known as the Bolsheviks, headed by V. ... The main goal of the Bolsheviks was to set up a government for the proletariat, or working class. ... STORY The story begins when an old boar named Old Major insights revolution against Farmer Jones with the animals through the stirring speech he gave before he died. ... The animals then finally realized that they were now under an even more oppressive rule than before the entire revolution had begun. ...

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He would read literature written by Karl Marx, a German political philosopher, and soon he would join the revolution called Russian Marxism. ... He would hold protests, and continue to network with other members of the revolution. ... The Whites wanted to take control from the Bolsheviks, and it turned out to be a very brutal, bloody war. ... Besides an Industrial Revolution Stalin set out to fix the lagging agricultural production in his five year plans. ... Almost all of the original Bolsheviks who had played a role in the Revolution where either executed or sent to the Gulog. ...

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It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... The Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Stalin escaped from prison and turned to the Bolshevik branch which was lead by Lenin. ... Revolution Stalin played an important, but not vital, part in the revolution. ... The Bolsheviks won the civil war in 1920. ...

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Following the death of Lenin in January 1924, the Bolshevik Party was left without its Messiah. ... Perhaps, had Trotsky wooed the Bolshevik bureaucrats he would have been more successful. ... This led him to accuse supporters of Stalin as being "worms who crawl from the upturned soil of the manured revolution." ... Trotsky was true to the Marxist doctrine by insisting that revolution must be permanent and spread across the world. ... By the time Stalin assumed complete control in 1929 the Bolshevik Party had little in common with Lenin's ideological elite group. ...

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Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. ... Historian Lionel Kochanii argued that 'Bloody Sunday is to be one of the key events which led to the end of Tsardom and also the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... Under the rule of Lenin and the Bolshevik party, 1917 "1923 the forces of reaction were successful in preserving a dic...

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During this time the Russian Social Democratic Party split into two groups, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. ... In 1904, Stalin escaped from Siberia back to Tiflis and joined the Bolsheviks. ... In 1912, Lenin promoted Stalin into the leading Bolshevik Party. ... The Russian Revolution began and Stalin organised many strikes and demonstrations. ... This cycle of arrests, exiles and escapes went on for the next several years leading up to the Russian Revolution in 1917. ...

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Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... During this period, the Social Democrats split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, and the Mensheviks. Stalin joined the more radical Bolsheviks, and by the time World War I arrived, in 1914, he had attended a number of Party Congresses and risen high in Lenin's favor, who appointed him to the Bolshevik Central Committee. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... The following year, another group of old Bolsheviks were subjected to the same treatmen...

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In 1917, Russia was going through a revolution which led to the removal of the last Tsar, Nicholas the second. This then concluded to the Bolsheviks becoming in power and transforming Russia into a country with a communist ideology. The Western leaders despised the idea of communism to the point where they sent troops to help stop the Bolshevik revolution from occurring, but these efforts were to no avail as the Bolsheviks overthrew the government and established Communism . The West's attempt of stopping the revolution convinced Russia that the West was against their new regime. ... The...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole were very suspicious and sometimes paranoid about Russia as soon as it has overthrew its Tsar, made a revolution and became a Soviet Union. ... Therefore, the Bolsheviks sign a separate peace treaty with ...

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In December 1905 Stalin and Lenin met for the first time, at a Bolshevik conference in Finland. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... Nevertheless, Stalin was re-elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on April 27, 1917. After a Bolshevik-sponsored insurrection in July, Lenin went into hiding and Trotsky was arrested, leaving Stalin and Yakob Sverdlov (another prominent Bolshevik) temporarily in charge of the Bolsheviks. ... Although Stalin apparently had...

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Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was won over to Lenin's position following the latter's return from exile in April, but played only a secondary role in the Bolsheviks" seizure of power on November. ... During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ... Stalin consolidated absolute power in the 1930's with the Great Purge against his suspected political and ideological opponents, most notably the old Bolshevik members. ... Only two membe...

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This disagreement led to the eventual split of the Social Democratic party into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. ... Lenin returned to Russia for two years but the promised revolution did not happen as the Tsar made enough concessions to calm the people. Lenin went abroad again. 1917 was to finally see the revolution in Russia. In fact two revolutions occurred in this year. ... There was opposition and this led to a civil war in 1918 between the Mensheviks (Whites) and the Bolsheviks (Reds). ...

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The second chapter, Stalin in the revolution, explains the role that Stalin played in the revolution that started in February 1917 and the consequences of that revolution. ... In 1912, Lenin created the central comity of the Bolshevik party. ... The revolution of 1917 brought Stalin back to Petrograd, and resumed to his post of director of the journal Pravda. ... Unlike Trotsky, Stalin believed that socialism could be introduced in one country without being accompanied by a world revolution. ...

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The other party was the Bolsheviks, who promoted revolutionary ideas. Stalin escaped from prison and went back to join the Bolsheviks which was ran by Vladimir Lenin. ... To kick start the industrial and agricultural revolution he made the Five Year Plan. ...

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When Stalin got Trotsky exiled, he removed all the other original Bolsheviks from key positions in order to establish complete control, in 1928. ... One by one, the old Bolsheviks were arrested, some shot, others forced to confess to ridiculous charges after torture in order to be saved or to save their families. ... " The names of his rivals were then removed from official histories of the revolution. ...

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Josef Stalin was one of the few members of the Bolsheviks who was of true proletariat background. ... The main contributor was that he had been an active Bolshevik and a full time revolutionary since 1905, and had been the President of the Bolshevik conference in 1907; therefore he knew the details of the party's policies. In addition to this, Lenin regarded him as able and reliable, although in his Testament, Lenin had criticised him for his lack of enthusiasm for the Bolshevik seizure in October 1917. ... His positive aspects were that he had been a Bolshevik since 1903, and had worked ...

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He helped the Bolshevik party by performing odd jobs and various tasks from 1917-1920. ... He became the secretary general of the Bolshevik party in 1922 (Stalin Modern). ... Russia was lagging behind the rest of the world in that they had not had a formal Industrial Revolution. ...

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He helped the Bolshevik party by performing odd jobs and various tasks from 1917-1920. ... He became the secretary general of the Bolshevik party in 1922 (Stalin Modern). ... Russia was lagging behind the rest of the world in that they had not had a formal Industrial Revolution. ...

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This began when he assumed the name Stalin "man of steel" and it was this vision of him that drove him to lead the revolution that was to change the face of the Soviet Union forever. ... In order to begin his revolution he ensured there were no objections to him as leader through the elimination of party leaders such as: Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. ... This revolution was primarily concerned with making the Soviet Union strong and powerful enough to withstand any external threat. ... Stalin saw the Kulaks as a threat to the enforcement of his agricultural policy and in turn to his revolut...

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Joseph finally got the chance to meet Lenin in 1905 at a conference in Finland Lenin noticed that Stalin was very dedicated and loyal to Lenin's cause so Lenin appointed Joseph to work for his cause by raising money for the Bolsheviks by any means necessary this involved robbing banks and government money. ... In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a...

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The struggle to succeed Lenin was a turning point of the Russian revolution. ... Zinoviev raked up all the old disagreements of Trotsky with Lenin, while Kamenev explained to the young communists that Trotsky had been a Menshevik (opposing to Bolsheviks) for several years "and once a Menshevik, always a Menshevik". In other representations Trotsky is said to be the one who first maintained that the power must be held exclusively by the Bolsheviks thus highlighting the problems of interpreting history. ...

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