to an immediate end. All land should be taken over by the state and relocated by local soviets. These demands became known as PEACE‚ LAND and BREAD. Reaction The initial reaction was mixed. The Bolsheviks were still a minority among socialists‚ numbering only 26‚000 members. The Bolsheviks were divided as to whether to help the provisional government or not. Some felt Lenin had grown out of touch and that he was too radical. There were allegations‚ with
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the work of the Secret Police‚ the creation of the cult of Stalin and his use of socialist realism were also significant. The show trials were was very important in Stalin’s control of Russia; by killing all the Bolsheviks that might oppose him he was able to rule freely. The Bolsheviks that were accused were forced to confess many crimes‚ including plotting to murder Lenin. This enabled Stalin to lay the blame on Trotsky‚ whom he accused of leading these plotters. This was very important because
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Why did Lenin urge a Bolshevik uprising in October 1917? As 1917 ended‚ a pivotal change took place both in politics and social standing as Lenin; leader of the Bolshevik party‚ took control over Russia and plunged Russian society into a period of extreme left wing control. The causation of Lenin’s decision to urge for a Bolshevik uprising is due to a combination of idea’s and beliefs‚ actions and events which resulted in a seizure of Bolshevik control and new age of democratic assembly for Russia
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GMD were intensified as working and living conditions continued to deteriorate and unpopular decisions were made regarding the government’s actions in WWI (Russia) and WWII (China). Mounting discontent made way for revolutionary groups such as the Bolsheviks and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as they were able to take advantage of government incompetence‚ fuelling support for their respective party. Economic mismanagement resulting from the PG and GMD’s incompetence contributed to the outbreak of
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How successful‚ in your opinion‚ was the New Economic Policy? The New Economic Policy‚ or NEP‚ introduced by the Bolshevik government in 1921‚ was an attempt to readjust and realign the Soviet economy and to prevent its implosion. The basic concept of the new policy was that the appropriation of food from the peasants‚ as pioneered in the infamous ‘War Communism’‚ was to be abolished and replaced by a ‘tax in kind’. Peasants were then left in undisturbed possession of the land‚ free to sell their
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fierce take over from the Bolsheviks led by Lenin. However the main factors that led to their downfall was their decision to continue in the war because it has worsened the issues that The Provisional Government failed to tackle which then led to loss of support from the bulk of the population and more importantly the army which they relied upon to defend The Provisional Government such as the July Days. In addition their decision to delay the elections gave the Bolsheviks a chance to take power.
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against communism and the Bolsheviks reign over Russia after their 1917 overthrow of the government. This is evident in source A when Philip Guedalla writes that Churchill lays awake at night worrying about “sinister little communist figures”. This gives the idea that Churchill is indeed wary of the potential influence the Russian Bolsheviks could have‚ and was urgently trying to figure out how to combat them. In Source E‚ Churchill is blatant about the severity of the Bolsheviks regime when he says
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revolution The October revolution or as others call it “The Bolshevik Revolution” was started by the Bolsheviks on 1917. The purpose of the revolution was to overthrow the Russian government. It was an event that was six months in the planning by the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks became more and more popular leading up to the time of the revolution. This helped them execute what they were planning with alot more ease. The Bolshevik party’s ultimate goal was to overthrow the Russian government
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writer and speaker. Trotsky shared Lenin’s vision of a society whose wealth would be shared and controlled by the workers. But Trotsky refused to join the Bolsheviks party because he disagreed with Lenin’s methods of leading the party. He remained a member of the Mensheviks until July 1917 when he returned to Russia and joined the Bolsheviks. He became a close friend of Lenin and a leader in the October revolution. Trotsky became a military leader during the Civil War and his ruthless leadership
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advantaged and why others were disadvantaged. War communism was implemented as a result of the civil war. Historians such as Maurice Dobb‚ E. H. Carr‚ and Stephen Cohen -- have interpreted war communism as a short-term expedient imposed on the Bolsheviks by the emergency demands of civil war and foreign intervention. According to this version‚ the system was never intended to last into normal peacetime conditions and had no special ideological significance. While this has since become "the standard
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