socialists and Lenin but failed. Unconsciously‚ Kornilov brought back the Bolshevicks on the scene of the Russian Revolution. The picture of Kornilov‚ shows him in front of his army ready to attack Petrograde as the photograph was taken in summer 1917. He looks determined but his army looks small and quite weak compared to the Bolshevik’s troops and the Kerensky’s troops. The fact that the Bolsheviks helped Kerensky only restored the Bolsheviks as patriots in the eyes of the Russians and enabled
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Following the success of the February Revolution‚ Lenin returned to Russia and delivered the April Theses‚ which established his policies and aspirations for the country. After a decade of exile‚ Lenin intended to take control of the revolutionary efforts upon his return. He arrived in Petrograd on April 3 – and delivered “the April Theses” to his supporters. In this dissertation‚ Lenin denounced the Provisional Government‚ called for the nationalization of all land‚ and “demanded the immediate transition
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II was overthrown‚ effectively ending the three-hundred-year-old Romanov Dynasty. During the February Revolution‚ Vladimir Lenin had been living in exile in Switzerland – and the Bolsheviks were largely not involved in this event. Following the overthrow of the tsarist regime‚ however‚ Lenin returned to Russia and began his effort to place Russia under Bolshevik control. Lenin
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On March 8‚ 1917‚ the Bolsheviks had dissolved Tsar Nicholas II Monarchy rule and formed the Soviet Union. As a result of the Russian Revolution‚ the civilization of Russia adjusted to a new civilization. The Russian Revolution was an overall success by changing Russia’s Monarchy into a communist state‚ changing into a socialist economy from a capitalist economy‚ and changed the socio-economic classes. Before the Russian Revolution Russia had a Monarch named Tsar Nicholas the II‚ but after the Russian
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Bolsheviks took power and Russia’s economy was going to collapse mainly due to involvement in the Civil War and World War One. Lenin implemented War Communism in order that the nationalisation of the whole country could take place. The broad aims of Lenin’s communism were to redistribute wealth among the Russian people and to support the Red Army with artillery and weapons. Lenin did not achieve his goals to establish communism in Russia. The agricultural and industrial sectors in Russian collapsed due
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East Germany in Wolfgang Becker film «Goodbye Lenin!»: Does the movie paint a positive or negative picture of life in communist East Germany? East Germany‚ its demise relayed through the mass media of recent history‚ has in popular consciousness been posited as negative‚ a corrupt bulwark of the last dying days of Communism in Eastern Europe‚ barren and silent. The other Germany to its West‚ it’s citizens free‚ was striding confidently ahead into the millennium. Recent cinema has sought to examine
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How did Lenin consolidate power after 1917? There is little doubt that in the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution‚ the Bolshevik hold on power was by no means secure. Although there were 300‚000 Bolshevik Party members‚ a large part of the population were apathetic towards the Bolshevik Party. The Bolsheviks controlled many major cities‚ but its presence in the countryside was limited. The Bolsheviks succeeded in gaining power in Petrograd not due to their own popularity‚ but largely due
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expected‚ there was still a lot of confusion over who would succeed him to lead the USSR. There are a number of reasons to why this occurred but there are still disputes about who Lenin wanted to succeed him and why he didn’t leave someone who he thought would be best for the job in charge of his beloved USSR. Despite Lenin having preferences‚ nobody was aware of these preferences due to his testament not being publically shown – nevertheless‚ Lenin’s testament left no clear indication of whom he wanted
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Why Stalin and not Trotsky was able to succeed Lenin The first reason why Stalin and not Trotsky was able to succeed Lenin was because Stalin had an important position of General Secretary. He used his position as secretary to put his supporters on the Central Committee of the party and dismissed Trotsky’s. This helped him establish control over the party and this lead to him building a powerbase in which he was in control. Having mostly his supporters in the party helped as there were few members
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eWas Lenin’s leadership the main reason for Bolshevik success? Although initially Lenin was the one to make the Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional Government‚ there were a number of long term factors that led to this revolution. The Provisional government were so weak that it meant that the Bolsheviks were the only party able to seize power in October 1917. The fact that the Provisional Government failed and the Bolsheviks were successful‚ was due to the fact they were a weak government who barely
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