Russian Revolution This essay is about the November 1917 revolution, the events that led up to and contributed to the revolution and Lenin's role in the revolution. ... November 1917 was the time when the Bolsheviks had to take control of Russia. ... When it came to the election in November 1917 the Bolsheviks did not get the majority of the votes, so to counter act this they started to eliminate their opposition one by one until they had supreme leadership of Russia. ... At the time of the revolution Russia was at war, this was causing social unrest through out the country. ... Lenin&...

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Throughout the period of 1917 to 1941 the majority of the many changes in soviet foreign policy were not results of pre-determined ideology, but rather a pragmatism that resulted from the varying situations. ... " He appealed to workers of the central powers to conduct their own revolution and while his pleas did not go unanswered they caused little result. ... It was a result of Russia's lack of warfare material and an army that needed to be increased as well as Britain's insistence on not siding with Russia. ... "The German forces must be prepared to crush Soviet Russia i...

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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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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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The Mensheviks "took the logical position in the Soviet of 1917 that it was premature to attempt to implement Marxism in the Russia of that time for the obvious reasons that capitalism had not matured there and thus there was no proletariat majority."" ... Ragsdale, in The Russian Tragedy, asks, "What does the doctrine of Marxism have to do with Russia?... As Ragsdale states, "Russia in the nineteenth century or Russia in 1917 did not fit plausibly into any historical period described by Marx."" ... Another aspect of the revolution in which Marxism and Leninism differed was on the form of go...

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After the revolution of 1917 and the change in the regime, life for ordinary Russians took a very different course. ... Food shortages lead to sever famine all over Russia for years. ... Russian culture and family ties were also changing in the 1930s. ... She has also written The Russian Revolution, Stalin's Peasants, In the Shadow of Revolution, The Cultural Front, and several other books and many articles about Russia and Russian history. ... She is a professor of Russian history at the University of Chicago and is extremely well educated on matters of Russian history. ...

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However, George Orwell used Animal Farm as a way of portraying a far more significant event - The Russian Revolution of 1917. ... This idea conveys the way in which human nature takes it course and also shows the vicious cycle that a revolution such as the Russian one entails. It is therefore clear to us as the reader that Orwell used Animal Farm as an allegory of the Russian Revolution and as a result many of the characters described are in actual fact symbolising real characters that played a part in the make up of the Russian Revolution. ... It is evident that Napoleons" characteristics r...

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Lenin believed that an outside force was needed to guide the working class into revolution. ... we answer: "We would propose peace to all the belligerents all the oppressed, and those who do not have equal rights And we would also raise in rebellion, the Socialist proletariat of Europe against their governments."1 Lenin believed that once a revolution occurred in Russia the notions would spread to the rest of Europe, with a Communist Russia at the helm. ... He did not believe it necessary for the Bolsheviks to be the catalyst of an international revolution. ... In 1917 Lenin created t...

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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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Marx believed that the only way to overthrow capitalism was to create a revolution of the lower class but this revolution carries the cause even farther away from true communism. ... Instead, it took place in Russia, a country troubled by its corrupt head of state. ... The revolution of 1917, however, occurred in Russia, one of the most backward countries in Europe (Ellis, 31). ... Following the first step towards communism is the revolution that Marx predicted would eventually occur. ... Russia was still called a communist state. ...

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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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Revolutions, wars, and other struggles have been fought over his theories and concepts. ... This writing leads too many Marxist revolutions throughout Europe. ... In the early years of the twentieth century, Russia was ready for the ideas of Marx. ... By 1917, the Russian people were desperate enough to accept a revolution of Communism. The first revolution was in March, when the Tsar was deposed and a provisional government was set up. ...

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Socialism requires a revolution with three main stages: firstly, the emergence of a workers' movement committed to socialist revolution, secondly the achievement of political power and the expropriation of the capitalists and thirdly a period during which workers learn how to be owners and rulers and cast off the psychological and ideological dross of the past. ... Fabians disagree with Marx over the point of revolution, their movement is just as much in support of core socialist values, such as the need to help workers and create economic equality. ... At the turn of the century, the w...

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