‘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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in 20th century history Abstract In 1917‚ Lenin led factory workers in St. Petersburg‚ Russia‚ in taking over the government‚ expecting to spark the rapidly spreading revolution to abolish capitalism predicted by Marx and Engels. Unexpected relationships among the nations impeded that spread‚. Once having become the leader of the vast territories that had formed the Russian Empire and having created a constitution nearly approaching democracy‚ Lenin was further surprised when the large majority
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This earned him the respect and trust of Vladimir Lenin‚ who invited Stalin to join the highest levels of Bolshevik power‚ although others - including Leon Trotsky - subsequently criticised the brutality of Stalin and his troops while suppressing counter-revolutionary insurgents in Poland and Ukraine. By 1921‚ Stalin had been asked by Lenin to help secure his power base against a perceived threat from Trotsky‚ culminating in Lenin’s victory at
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3Leon Trotsky Research Paper http://hsc.csu.edu.au/modern_history/personalities/trotsky/3279/trotsky_index.htm Chapter 1 What three things do you find most difficult about individual research tasks? Finding useful/ correct Information Keeping up with work load Sourcing information What three things do you find easiest Quoting Research Falling behind on work load 1. Explain why the Bronstein’s decision to move to Yanova was so unusual At the time farming was unfamiliar livelihood for Russian
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nor inevitable. Following the incapacitation and subsequent death of Vladimir Lenin‚ there were many legitimate claimants to this leadership: Grigory Zinoviev‚ Lev Kamenev‚ Nikolai Bukharin and‚ particularly‚ Leon Trotsky‚ Lenin ’s right-hand man and heir apparent. Among such company Stalin - the bureaucrat from humble origins in the Slavic republic of Georgia - seemed unlikely to fill the political vacuum left by Lenin ’s death. This essay examines Stalin ’s rise to power. It argues that a combination
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Saying Goodbye Is Hard to Do In my teen years‚ Flutter was a daydream. During high school‚ I had a part time job at the movies. While I made popcorn in the lobby concession stand‚ my guy friends made out with girls inside the theater. In my small southern hometown‚ a girl taking another girl to the movies didn’t seem like a possibility so I daydreamed about what it would be like to be a boy. I watched how boys were treated better than girls in school‚ at the movies‚ everywhere. When I moved to
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having helped Lenin overthrown Genghis Khan he felt he deserved some sort of power in Asia. Stalin figured after having been ruled under the caste system for so long‚ it would be appealing to everyone to become equal to one another and pitched the idea to Lenin. If Stalin could make this a reality and have it be a successful form of government‚ Vladimir Lenin promised him a position as a leader of the Communist party. Stalin agreed ensuring that this was possible. Eventually Lenin trusts Stalin &
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were able to seize power in Russian in 1917 mainly due to the exceptional leadership of Lenin and the organisational skills of Trotsky‚ the Red Guard army that was formed on May 11th 1917 and then re-organised on the 4th of November and the problems that the Provisional government had. The Bolshevik revolution took place with an armed rebellion in Petrograd. The October revolution led by the Bolshevik party and Lenin as a significant figure within this party took over the Provisional Government and gave
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can only occur in advanced capitalist system. Russia in 1917 had a feudal economy How could revolution occur there? Through a radical party of intellectuals to lead the workers Lenin’s revision of Marxism called Marxism-Leninism 1917 Lead by VI Lenin promised “Peace‚ Land and Bread” Won support of people (especially peasants) 1918 1918 March the Bolsheviks accepted peace of Brest-Litovsk‚ ending WWI with Germany. Reading collapse of provisional government Bolshevik forces had no need to
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Lenin was the “founder of the Russian communist party‚” and also “founder of the organization known as Comintern” (Resis). Lenin created the Soviet Union‚ and he also pulled Russia out of World War One. After Lenin died‚ there was a power struggle in which Stalin came out on top and became the second person to lead the Soviet Union. Under Stalin‚ Russia became
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