great role in the fall of Tsarism; his incompetency and lack of leadership skills lead to downfall and created a communist Russia. Nicholas made many mistakes which triggered the collapse‚ which include failure to make the duma work and address the October Manifesto‚ his role in World War 1 and his decline in authority and support. Another point to consider was the Tsars’ decline in authority; this was a major factor which influenced the role of the Tsar in the regime. After Bloody Sunday Nicholas’
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Throughout history human rights have been a very controversial subject. For as long as society has been alive there has always been a fight for basic human rights and equality. With tactics ranging from peaceful mass protests to people being brutally murdered to prove a point. One of the most nonviolent‚ successful human rights defenders was the very famous Martin Luther King Jr. Born Michael Luther King Jr. in Atlanta‚ Georgia on January 15‚ 1929. The middle child of three he was born into a very
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their hold on power in the years after the October/November revolution mainly through the use of violence against their opponents? The Bolsheviks consolidated their power after October 1917 however they faced many severe problems which made keeping their power complex. For Lenin and the Bolsheviks winning political power was relatively easy compared with retaining it. The Bolsheviks may have had a temporary majority in the All-Russia soviet in October 1917‚ but they did not have a majority following
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were put into place by the Tsar and Lenin to preserve their own leadership and their politics‚ whether it be autocracy or revolution. Serge described that “from now on the psychosis of absolute power was to captivate the great majority of power1” showing how the Cheka and the Red Terror were essential to “captivat[e]ing the great majority of power” to keep Lenin’s revolution stable and in his hands. Pipes also recognises this fact: “no Tsar‚ even at the height of radical terrorism…was as well protected
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The initial triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution at the end of October‚ 1917 did not mean that the entire population of Russia had been converted to Bolshevism. Leninwas aware of this. To gather national support‚ Lenin resorted to slogans for the masses. The most important of them was "Bread‚ Land‚ Peace and All Power to the Soviets." Was this enough? The Russian people were more anti-Bolshevik than Lenin would have liked. The tsar was gone and a revolution had taken the nation by storm. Were the
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distributed evenly amongst the people. During the February 1917 revolution in Russia‚ Lenin was in exile. He knew his right-hand man Trotsky would tell him when the time was right to come back to Russia. The end of the February Revolution led to the end of the Romanov dynasty and to the Provisional Government under Lvov and Kerensky. It also meant the return of Lenin. By October 1917‚ he felt the time was right for a Bolshevik revolution. It was relatively bloodless and Lenin assumed the responsibility
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events and characters in Russian history since 1917(Meyers 103). Orwell uses actual historical events to construct Animal Farm‚ but rearranges them to fit his plot. Manor Farm is Russia‚ Mr. Jones the Tsar‚ the pigs the Bolsheviks who led the revolution. The humans represent the ruling class‚ the animals the workers and the peasants. Old Major‚ the inspiration of the rebellion‚ is a combination of Marx‚ the chief theorist and Lenin‚ the actual
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How successful were the Bolsheviks in consolidating their power from 1917-1924? Was Communist ideology compromised during this period? On 24-26 October‚ the Bolshevik Party seized power from Kerensky’s Provisional Government. This was achieved with surprising ease. Retaining their newly acquired power‚ however‚ was to prove difficult. Nonetheless‚ the Bolsheviks proved successful in consolidating their power from 1917-1924‚ achieving this through a combination of pragmatic reforms and ruthless terror
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Bolsheviks to form their own party‚ Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in time for the Prague Conference. In 1917 the Russian Socialist Federate Soviet Republic became the world’s first social state. The RSFSR was founded after the October Revolution. As soon as the revolution ended the government in which Lenin ruled put in place socialist reforms‚ which included the transfer of estates and land to workers in the Soviet Republic. In 1918 the Russian Socialist Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) became an
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he was the senior Bolshevik and editor of Pravda (the party newspaper) until Lenin’s return from Switzerland. After Lenin’s return‚ Stalin remained in high councils for the party‚ but had very little involvement with the preparations for the October revolution‚ which placed the Bolsheviks in power. Within the party‚ Stalin rose to the highest ranks‚ becoming a member of the Political Bureau and the Organization Bureau. Stalin’s Rise to
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