of the Bolshevik (meaning Majority) faction of the Russian Social and Democratic Labour Party and took power in the October Revolution of 1917. He was born in the city of Simbirsk in 1870 and studied Law at Kazan ’ university‚ where he was introduced to Marxist literature. His brother Alexandr was involved in a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexandr III and executed. He spent some time in internal exile in Siberia before being exiled from Russia. It was in London that he formed his Bolshevik faction
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‘The Bolsheviks were able to seize power in October 1917 because of the leadership and determination of Lenin’ How far do you agree with this statement. It took three days for the Bolsheviks‚ specifically Trotsky’s Red Guard‚ to take control of Petrograd from 25-27 October‚ on the third day the power of the country had practically fell into their hands. The revolution was a pivotal event for world history with effects that reverberated through the 20th century. The nature of the revolution was
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The concept of Stalinism‚ being the ideologies and policies adopted by Stalin‚ including centralization‚ totalitarianism and communism‚ impacted‚ to an extent‚ on the soviet state until 1941. After competing with prominent Bolshevik party members Stalin emerged as the sole leader of the party in 1929. From this moment‚ Stalinism pervaded every level of society. Despite the hindrance caused by the bureaucracy‚ the impact of Stalinism was achieved through the implementation of collectivization and
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of the State as Lenin said in regards to the rebellion ’’It lit up reality like a flash of lightning’’(2). Moreover‚ the rebellion also saw the Bolsheviks cower to maintain their control‚ to the extent of sacrificing there own communist ideals‚ through the formation of so called ’State Capitalism’. The sheer extent of the violence used by the Bolsheviks and their later attitude also expresses this and raises the question of whether a social revolution had actually taken place. As Lenin states ’Marxism
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the lead up to the October revolution‚ however other factors such as Lenin and main events such as the Kornilov affair could be said to be the main cause and that the weakness of the provisional government had nothing to do with the fact that the Bolsheviks were gaining such huge amounts of support. To a certain extent the weaknesses of the provisional were responsible for the October revolution. The provisional government were incredibly weak as an institution of ruling. They failed to supress opposition
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him. He was also a great military leader and had good organisational skills. Trotsky has a few strong disadvantages to his personality though. His late arrival to the Bolshevik party could be interpret Trotsky as an unloyal character while his arrogance due to his intelligence made him quite a few different enemies in the Bolshevik party. Trotsky’s arrogance led to his defeat as he vastly underestimated Stalin and the threat he posed‚ while also decreasing his inner party support. At the time Trotsky
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revolution failed‚ we must first consider the state of affairs leading up to the revolution. One key event in the state of affairs was the separation of the Social Democrats who became known as the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks in 1903. This was because some members of the what was to become the Bolsheviks‚ wanted to have a violent revolution‚ whereas the other members wanted to wait until the capitalist stage of the Marxist theory was complete as Russia was not ready for a proletarian revolution. This was the
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in solving the problems he faced? With the October revolution in 1917‚ Lenin managed to execute a successful coup d’état against the provisional government of Russia and with the death of the constituent assembly early 1918; Lenin and his Bolsheviks had finally control over Russia. However this was just the beginning of various problems he would be facing. This raised the debate on whether Lenin could deal with these problems or not. Many of the quarrels originated from the Tsar’s regime and
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labor party marxists who favored proletariat‚ working class 1900 international financial crisis 1902 founding of socialist revolutionary party anti marxist‚ and anti capitalist favored peasants and violence 1903 mensheviks and bolsheviks arose bolsheviks wanted revolution ASAP mensheviks were pro waiting 1903 massive wave of strikes 1904 russia goes to war with japan Russia failed and this caused privitization and additional hardship 1905 bloody Sunday: led to mass distress in
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References: Clark ‚ P. (1988). Wars that Changed the World: The Russian Revolution. New York. Keep‚ J. (1976). The Russian Revolution: A study in Mass Mobilization. Toronto‚ ON Read‚ C. (2012). Russian Intelligentsia and the Bolshevik Revolution. History Today. Trueman‚ C.(2013). The Cheka. History Learning Site. Retrieved April 29‚2013 from http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the_Cheka.htm White‚ M. (2011). World War I Civilians. Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the
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