Lenin knew that the majority of the Russian population was peasants and used their darkening situation as the Bolsheviks basis for revolution. ... In an attempt to gain momentum for Lenin's movement, Trotsky convinced Lenin to name the revolution in favor of the soviets. ... Trotsky's Red Guards, an exceptionally well trained private army devoted to the Bolshevik revolution, played a crucial part in the seizure and maintenance of power in the newly named Communist government. ... Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution answered with Trotsky's Red Army and by the spring of 1919, t...

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Lenin the seized opportunities that presented themselves, picking up backing from the troopers, peasants and proletariat, through his motto 'End the war; Land to the Peasants; All Power to the Soviets'; in conjunction with this, he changed the Bolshevik Party into a catalyst for revolution. ... Prior to the October revolution, Lenin plotted these changes in the April Thesis. ... It was Lenin who bargained for the goals of the revolution and took the Bolshevik's to power. ... However, the Bolsheviks were hesitant to acknowledge the NEP, despite agitated attitudes amongst the Bo...

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Bolshevik ideology primarily began to subside from its Marxist roots during the October revolution in 1917 in Petrograd, when the party first seized power from Kerensky's Provisional Government. ... However, Lenin's April thesis presents Marxist ideology, as he strongly emphasizes Russia's readiness for revolution as a result of WWI. ... 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 le...

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Before a revolution occurs a number of preconditions are often necessary. ... Germany believed that revolution was disaster to a country and by allowing Lenin and his compatriots to return they were helping to spreading Revolution. ... The Bolsheviks, though use of promised land reforms and alternatives to the Tsarist monarchy, only had a limited role in the first revolution. ... The October/ November revolution, where the provisional government was overthrown and the proletarian based republic established, was a direct effect of the actions of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. ... Lenin and the Bo...

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Lenin and the Russian revolution Introduction The Bolsheviks started off, in 1903, as the minority of the Social Democratic Party. ... Lenin believed strongly in these morals and used them as a guide to his goal of revolution. This essay focuses on how the Bolsheviks gained power and background to Bolshevik Revolution and also the outcomes of the revolution. ... Later on Trotsky, a Menshevik, who helped him organise the movement and revolution. ... The Bolsheviks were also renamed the Communists. ...

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The Russia Revolution In the middle of the First World War a very beat up Russia wanted out. ... The group's name was the Bolshevik. ... Trotsky was a huge help to the Bolshevik. ... Throughout the whole Russian revolution there was a huge change in Russia the people were to poor and starving to do anything. ... With the help of Lenin and the Bolsheviks the Russian revolution was a huge step forward for the people of Russia. ...

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Before a revolution occurs a number of preconditions are often necessary. ... Germany believed that revolution was disaster to a country and by allowing Lenin and his compatriots to return they were helping to spreading Revolution. ... The Bolsheviks, though use of promised land reforms and alternatives to the Tsarist monarchy, only had a limited role in the first revolution. ... The October/ November revolution, where the provisional government was overthrown and the proletarian based republic established, was a direct effect of the actions of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. ... Lenin and the Bo...

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The October coup of 1917 that resulted in the Bolshevik consolidation of power revealed that all the party's efforts had been directed towards preparing for revolution, however little attention has been given to the details of how affairs would be organized after this was accomplished. ... Lenin's government was presented with an immediate problem - the Bolsheviks had only won a quarter of the seats in the November elections for the Constituent Assembly. ... The Bolshevik's crushing of the Constituent Assembly and subsequent outlawing of all other parties showed that they were n...

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However, as in all successful revolutions, the leaders begin with idealist principles that are forced to change to more practical doctrines because of realism. ... Under Lenin, the Bolshevik revolution was an attempt to change the government of Russia to that of Marxism, or communism. ... Yet many of the Bolshevik policies skewed the lines between socialism and authoritarian rule. ... The idealized figure, the worker in whom the intelligentsia placed their hopes, carried a toughness and relentlessness that was necessary for the revolution. ... "As good Marxists, the Bolsheviks nationalized ban...

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During the month of October, the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd. ... Although he was a strong influence within the revolution, he wasn't solely responsible for the outbreak of revolution. ... The November revolution was different to the March revolution. ... However the support grew for him and the Bolsheviks after the Petrograd uprising. ... Although Lenin and the Bolsheviks had done all of the organising and planning of the revolution, the reasons for the revolution were the discontent that many of the social classes had faced from the previous 50 years from the government and th...

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He contributed to the October 1917 revolution through his controversial continuation of the war, the Kornilov affair, and his poor judgement of the Bolsheviks and their potential.  ... Kerensky then armed the Bolsheviks in order to halt the Kornilov advance. From this Kerensky emerged as an ineffectual and compromised leader and was often compared with the Tsars Autocratic leadership, It also revived the Bolshevik revolution as members were released from prison and they were now armed for a seizure of power.  ... Kerensky believed that the revolution would come from the right wing conserva...

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One man that followed the same ideas of Marx is Vladimir Lenin, key leader of the Bolshevik party in Russia around the early 1900s. ... The death of over 11 million Russian Citizens caused by the Czar not pulling troops out of WWI due to them not being prepared set the stage for a revolution to spark. ... In the end, the Provisional Government had fallen to the Bolshevik regime. ... After the Bolsheviks coming to power and WWI, Russia was in total disarray. ... Politicians, citizens speaking of revolution, and anyone deemed unfit in the governments eyes would disappear, being either executed ...

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It will mainly focus on the following three topics: the cause of the revolution, what happened during the revolution, and the outcome. ... In 1917 all these things resulted in the overthrow of the czarist government and the establishment of the Bolshevik Party. The Bolshevik Party was a radical group of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. ... On February 27 the revolution triumphed. ... THe outcome of the revolution was this. ...

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Last November, the Bolsheviks led a massive revolution against Kerensky's provisional government. ... The idea gained momentum and soon enough, the Bolsheviks were the dominant force in the Petrograd Soviet. They had the full support of the workers and peasants by September and at that point, we all knew a successful revolution was inevitable. ... This met with joy and delight from the people and I was told that the Bolsheviks won over 80% of the population's support. ... The vast majority of political parties still remain hostile to the Bolsheviks and believe me, with time and plann...

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The Bolshevik dictatorship established after the October Revolution was very quickly faced with numerous monumental crises. ... In the months following the Bolshevik coup d"etat opposition forces quickly formed and took arms against what they deemed to be a "Bolshevik dictatorship". ... Faced with this devastating war, the Bolsheviks acted decisively, reforming the Red Army under Trotsky. ... In October 1917 the Bolsheviks inherited an economy on the brink of collapse. ... Conclusions on the Russian revolution vary greatly in their point of view. ...

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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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During the next few weeks, soviets throughout Russia joined in the revolution and took over control of most towns and cities. ... However, this did not mean that Lenin and the Bolsheviks had complete control of Russia. Not all the soviets were run by Bolsheviks and, in the countryside, most peasants supported the Socialist Revolutionaries. ... This represented both good news and bad news for the Bolsheviks. ... Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks and the SRs disagreed. ...

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Whether the Russian revolution was primarily the product of domestic or global causes Russia experienced several revolutions during 1904-1917. ... The biggest revolution exploded in 1917, in that year, there were two revolutions, one in February, one in October. ... In October revolution, the Bolshevik, which was led by Lenin, flung the Provisional government, and found the government of the soviet republic. ... To generate 1917 revolution, there was still a big factor, the revolution of 1905. ... They decided to sponsor the revolution. ...

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Animal Farm, George Orwell's novel about a group of animals who run their own farm, may appear to be nothing more than a "fairy story" at first glance. However, the events in Animal Farm are allegorical to Soviet Russian politics from 1919-1953. Specifically, many aspects of the plot of the novel ...

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