Over the period from 1855 to 1964, Russia saw various reforms and policies under the Tsars and the Communist leaders that had great impacts on its economy and society both positive and negative. Lenin definitely implanted polices that changed society and the economy for example with war communism. However whether his policies had the greatest impact is debatable and in this essay I will be assessing the view whether Lenin had the greatest impact on Russia’s economy and society than any other ruler between the period from 1855-1964.…
had very smart and tactical aims and objectives and ideas of what was best for Russia.…
Ekaterina was the daughter of a peasant who married at fifteen and who lost her…
The point that Huxley is making in this seen is how something new and unknown to you and your ways might come off as uncivilized. Although they do have homes and mean of climbing to get to those houses. From the beginning Lenina is not excited. She begins to pick at basic things that the savages don't do but what Bernard and Lenina were trained to do.…
After Lenin’s death, Stalin rapidly ascended to power, strategically removing Trotsky and installing himself with the mystic and praise usually reserved for religious figures, not unlike the Tsar’s of history. Some citizens believed in Stalin so wholeheartedly that they start to worship him, singing hymns such as primary source #8.…
Joseph Stalin is one of the most well known dictators. He is known to be the savior of Russia. He was also known to be a cruel leader that didn’t let anyone get in his way. This lead Stalin to be feared by many people in Russia. Stalin was the dictator that ruled over communist Russia in 1928. In his time of leading this totalitarian country, he accomplished many good and terrible things.…
The first leader of the U.S.S.R. was Vladimir Lenin. His main focuses as leader where to bring electricity to all parts of Russia and end the economic depression among the former peasants. He also emphasized women's rights and the education of all Russian people. Under his leadership the secret police was established and extreme censorship began in the media. The main difference between Lenin and other Soviet leaders was that he had a council of Bolshevik leaders who had great influence in the…
It is widely accepted that Lenin was to be the next Tsar of the time, The Red Tsar in fact. With his views gradually growing more radical, this can be seen to be true in a lot of instances.…
“Every year, thousands of people flock to the cold and dreary Red Square in Moscow, Russia.” Located there is something remarkably peculiar. In a cold, damp, and dark mausoleum lies Vladimir Lenin’s lifeless, preserved body. Frozen in time because of science, the body has been an attraction to many throughout the decades. While traveling thousands of miles to see the body of a man who was long dead may seem strange, the actions of Lenin makes it stranger. Although he was certainly an influential man, changing the political landscape of Russia forever and creating a global superpower, Lenin has a darker side. While the genocide of his successor, Joseph Stalin, live in infamy, Lenin is often overlooked for his evil. Lenin brutally killed thousands…
Karl Marx and his developed theory of Marxism played a vital role in influencing Lenin’s efforts to overthrow the Provisional Government eventually leading to the Russian Revolution of 1917.…
Trotsky was important in organising and coordinating the actual take over Petrograd in November, but Lenin was even more important because he was a strong leader who guided the Central Committee of the Party and pushed to make the takeover happen. For example, he produced the April Theses, which gave the Bolsheviks clear goals and made them better focused and organized, which was vital if they were going to take over successfully. He also put together the slogan ‘Bread, Peace, Land, and All power to the Soviets!’ which was designed to appeal to a broad range of people and he gave speeches and led rallies to inspire people to join the party. This meant that the Bolsheviks grew in popularity because they were offering people what they wanted – in particular they were the only party who opposed the war and all the other parties were associated with the much-disliked Provisional Government, which seemed to be doing…
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) was the current leader after the fall and collapse of the Romanov Dynasty, and failure of seizure of power by the provisional government. Lenin and the Bolsheviks (majority communist party) were in power of Russia post 1917. Trotsky was a member of the Menshevik party (minority men), but in August 1917, joined the Bolshevik party, always having some “Bolshevik spirit”. Following the creation of the ‘SOVNARKOM’, a council of people’s Commissar’s, Trotsky was appointed ‘Commissar for Foreign Affairs’. During this four month duration of ‘Commissar for Foreign Affairs’, Trotsky introduced his ideal of “no war, no peace”. This merely was the intention of neither fighting Germany, nor making peace with it. This was an ignorant claim by Trotsky, being strongly opposed by Lenin, as he demanded peace with Germany before…
Lenin’s hardcore Communist policies were a disaster in the USSR: Food production and industrial output virtually collapsed and the county started falling apart. He had to abandon the most extreme Communist practices early on because they just didn’t work in real life.…
When he was young he grew up having very little resources and lived in Georgia, which was part of the Russian empire at the time. Although he was not a good person, he was interested in educating himself since the beginning, he showed this when he studied and a theological seminary and this is where he read books that inspired him. He read a lot about Marxism when he was at the seminary and this type of literature gave him ideas of society should be like. He did not graduate because he decided to join revolutionary movements against the Russian monarchy, therefore got into trouble a lot. He got arrested several times and was exiled to Siberia.…
Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and was best known for being one of the main leaders of the October Revolution in 1917 and the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic. But was Lenin more significant for his actions in 1917 or his subsequent actions from 1918 to 1924? That is the question I will be exploring in this essay and I will be thinking of all of his actions in the mentioned years.…