During the year 1917, two revolutions took place in Russia. ... The February revolution of 1917 began with the bread riots on February 23. ... The first All -Russian Congress was announced by the end of March, 1917. Exhibit 12.3 The leader of the October Revolution, Lenin The brilliant leadership and the moving spirit of Lenin was responsible for the October Revolution in Russia. ... The Russian Revolution of 1917 was an event of international significance. ... The Revolution of 1917 transformed a poverty-stricken Czarist Russia into a super power, under the guiding spirits of Lenin,...

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Russian Revolution began with the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917. ... Lenin immediately began his attempt to construct a socialist government in Russia according to the philosophy of Karl Marx. ... 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 worker)-and more remotely the Chinese revolutionaries of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion; Napoleon stands for Joseph Stalin; Snowball is Leon Trotsky; Mollie...

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To what extent were the forces of reaction successful in using terror to preserve autocracy and dictatorships in Russia and the Soviet Union 1855-1955? ... However under the Soviet rule between 1917-1955, secret police institutions like that of the OGPU, NKVD, Cheka and Red army to an extent, were rather used to inflict terror on the Russian population to suppress opposition and preserve autocracy. ... 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 Le...

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Although both Truman and Stalin broke the tension between Western Europe and Asia, Stalins obsession over converting the world into communism is what caused such rebellious acts from western europe, which inevitably forced them to resist to preserve its social and political culture. 1917 was the point where a clear difference between the "West" and Russia was established, Russia was mainly responsible for creating this division and was also, to an extent, to blame for the increase of distrust and tension this division caused. ... In 1917, Russia was going through a revolution which ...

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Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. 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 Bolshevi...

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Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. 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 Bolshevi...

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Stalin greatly reformed Russia, and advanced Russia at the expense of the common citizens. ... Exiled in 1913, Stalin did not return from Siberia until the Czar's abdication in 1917 (Stalin Modern). ... He helped the Bolshevik party by performing odd jobs and various tasks from 1917-1920. ... Russia was lagging behind the rest of the world in that they had not had a formal Industrial Revolution. ... Stalin's reforms of Russia modernized and advanced Russia, but at the expense of the common Russian citizens. ...

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Stalin greatly reformed Russia, and advanced Russia at the expense of the common citizens. ... Exiled in 1913, Stalin did not return from Siberia until the Czar's abdication in 1917 (Stalin Modern). ... He helped the Bolshevik party by performing odd jobs and various tasks from 1917-1920. ... Russia was lagging behind the rest of the world in that they had not had a formal Industrial Revolution. ... Stalin's reforms of Russia modernized and advanced Russia, but at the expense of the common Russian citizens. ...

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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. ... Stalin would continue a cycle of getting arrested and excelled to Siberia eight times between 1902 and 1917. ... During the first world war, moral was low in the Russian Army. ... Their resentment peaked in February 1917, when a group of soldiers took over the town of St. ... Stalin didn't really have much to do with the revolution, he wrote a few editorials for a popular Russian newspaper, but his contributions where minimal at best. ...

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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. Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World...

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Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... He was political commisaar of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. ... During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ... Both men desperately wanted Russia to catch up to the western European states. Both succeeded to an extent, turning Russia temporarily into Europe's leading power. ...

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Georgia was an independent country until the Russian Tsars conquered it. ... His name was Koba and he hated the Russians and avenged their crimes against the Georgians. ... The students could have no privacy and were spied on by the Russian Orthodox monks. ... 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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