LENIN"S ROLE IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. ... In 1917 after emerging as premier of the Soviet Government his fame and fortune grew overnight. ... During the years leading up to 1917, Lenin had been a virtual stranger to Russia. ... "(6) The news that Russia was in a state of revolution in 1917 caught Lenin by surprise... "This first stage of the revolution born of war will neither be the last, nor confined to Russia." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in March 1917, was a result of numerous significant factors. ... The abdication led Russia to change significantly with immediate consequences such as political turmoil, short term consequences such as the revolution and long term consequences such as Stalin ruling of Russia. ... On the 15th of March 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated from the throne. ... Lenin wanted to get back to Russia to start another revolution and became allied with the Germans who gave him safe transport into Russia. ... In June 1917 the Provisional Government ordered Russian a...

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On the third of April 1917, with Lenin's return to Russia, he announced a republic for Soviet of Workers, Poor Peasants and Peasants" Deputies, and his "April Theses" - his plans for the future. ... His push for the revolution to take place in October 1917, with scepticism from other members in the party given the disastrous July Days, was proven to be a correct decision; as the Provisional government crumbled under the threat and the Bolsheviks took power. ... Lenin's leadership and ability to lead the Bolsheviks is also undeniable, the October 1917 Revolution being one that require...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Russian Civil War lasted from October 1917 to October 1922. ... These units were formed in 1917, but after a year, some reorganized into the Red Army. ... "In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head." ... Lenin was aiming for this goal from the start when he announced his "Call to Power" speech in 1917. ... " This ended the Russian Civil War. ...

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Characters, items, and events found in George Orwells book, Animal Farm, can be compared to similar characters, items, and events found in Marxism and the 1917 Russian Revolution. ... Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. ... The last event that was similar in the book and in Russia was the animal rebellion on the farm and the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... Russian Revolution, Grolier npa). ... Russian Revolution of 1917. ...

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Animal Farm by George Orwell Characters, items, and events found in George Orwells book, Animal Farm, can be compared to similar characters, items, and events found in Marxism and the 1917 Russian Revolution. ... Propaganda is another item that was used in the Russian revolution. ... The last event that was similar in the book and in Russia was the animal rebellion on the farm and the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... ("Russian Revolution," Grolier ). ... "Russian Revolution of 1917." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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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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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

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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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: High School