Revolutionists explanation of October Revolution is based on the importance of the force of the masses which created the revolutionary nature of the society leading to cardinal reforms. Lenin was indeed a key figure and the Bolshevik party was able to meet the demand of the masses which raised their popularity. This view shows a direct conflict between a revolutionist and liberal ‘totalitarian’ schools that implements Lenin and Stalin as the only people that caused terror and emplaced control over
One man, Vladimir Lenin saw that Russia was spiraling downwards, having lost two battles in a row and having the highest death count out of all the European countries he saw that a change was needed. Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks who were a communist group that wanted to draw out of the war and over thrown Czar Nicholas II. Preaching peace, and food he wanted, ¨the offer of peace, the salvation of Petrograd, salvation from famine, and the transfer of land to the peasants who depended on them,¨ (Document 8). People were drawn into this and, ¨increasingly taken in by the propagandists of the united Socialist Party and their internationalis ideas,¨ (Document 9). This combined with high death rates, starvation, communist ideals started the overthrow of Russia and the end of the war.
After the revolution and death of the Russian Czar in 1917, Vladimir Lenin overthrew the short-lived democratic government that followed the end of Nicholas II, replacing it with a Bolshevik communist regime. (Background essay) His teachings were inspired by Karl Marx who was a German philosopher that believed society goes through certain stages: Capitalism, socialism, and finally communism. Lenin would then go on to establish the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922 which slowly led to the rise of the USSR as one of the superpowers of the world. In today’s society, many mysteries about the Soviet Union lurk among the world and textbooks should emphasize three certain things to bring light to the subject of the Soviet Union.
Communism, an ideology developed by Karl Marx, was a key component in the revolution of USSR. Marx envisioned a society where the lower and upper classes were equal in regards to property and rights. During the Russian Revolution, an extensive amount of propaganda was used to promote communism. Although propaganda was used in various forms, the posters made a huge impact in convincing the population of Soviet Union to support the communist cause. The posters contained several healthy messages about the effects of the revolution in Soviet Union.
The Russian working class was very willing to follow the intentions of the Bolsheviks. They greatly applied to their needs and desires to provide more support and rights to the workers in the factories and the
Lenin bringing communism to Russia is significant because as most socialist believed, it was inevitable that communism would one day come to Russia. Many people and
In extract four written by R.C Williams in the “The bolshevik” in 1999 Williams talks about when looking back it is clear that the bolshevik party and more importantly Bolshevism was “supported from below”( E.G. workers and peasants) because of this it showed bolshevism to be in the deep structure of Russian culture then once thought. The main reason why the bolshevik party and in part lenin got
The Bolsheviks wanted to spread Communism to their neighbors and re- conquer Russia’s old territories. The Bolsheviks also believed that the turmoil in Germany and the former Austria-Hungarian Empire meant that Communist ideas could be set up their as well. Having failed to spread Communism to Eastern Europe, the Bolsheviks moved to secure their position
His contributions to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution can be conspicuously seen in his role in foreign affairs, the recruiting, outfitting and disciplining the Bolshevik Red Guard and his belligerence in the Russia’s civil wars, in which he achieved communist victory. It was a tumultuous time in Russia before the dawn of 1917. Citizens had grown weary of the aristocracy of Czar Nicholas II. During this period the Russian government was fraught with corruption, and the economy was regressive. However, despite the tempestuous climate of Russia due to Czar Nicholas II rule, the most immediate cause of the revolution can be traced to Russia’s ruinous involvement in World War I
Furthermore, they wanted to start revolution against decisions made by their tragic excuse of a czar, Nicholas II. These transactions proposed as the idea of a revolution gained followers and grew greatly in hopes to create change. These transactions were right because they opposed what the people needed, which was equal treatment and protection for not only people of higher authority, but yet for everyone. Once Lenin gained control of Russia as new czar, great changes were created. As proposed, Lenin followed through with his wanted changes and made them present in Russian society.
With their newly acquired power after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks and their leader, Vladimir Lenin, anticipated opposition in the very near future. To combat this inevitable force against them, Lenin proposed the notion of creating “a people’s militia and to fuse it with the army (the standing army to be replaced by the arming of the entire people.)” Its purpose was to transform the current Imperial Army, whose morale had been broken-down by combat and poor leadership, into a well-oiled military machine. Thus, the Workers-Peasant Red Army was created in January of 1918, made up of what was thought to be the best of the working class. With the combined influence of both Lenin and his right-hand man Leon Trotsky, together were able to motivate and push the Worker and Peasant classes to join the fight as the Red Army and secure power.
During the crisis months of 1917, the Soviet and Provisional Government worked together. This all changed when Vladimir Ilich Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, heard the news of the February Revolution and returned to Russia from exile. When Lenin arrived at the Petrograd station, he set out his April Theses. His slogans were ‘Peace, Land and Bread’ and ‘All power to the soviets’, increasing support for the Bolsheviks, particularly in the Petrograd Soviet and
Lenin does not achieve his goals in establishing communism in the industrial sector and the agriculture reigns of the country. However he did achieve communism in the political sector of the country, in the form of war communism. At the end of WW1 the country was an economic disaster. People didn’t have the money to buy a loaf of bread to feed their families. There was no food for Lenin’s Red Army and with a civil war on his doorstep he needed to keep his troops strong and healthy.
The Bolshevik government led by Vladimir Lenin, exploited the political climate by emphasizing the needs and importance of the working class to effectively seize power from the Provisional Government. The Bolshevik government created the slogan “Peace, bread, land” to echo the common concerns of the working-class and announced the decree of peace, land and workers, which promised to give peasants the right to their own land and a fair minimum wage. Lenin established his “April Thesis” which outlined ten demands and announced them on 17 April 1917. Lenin wrote his April Theses traveling back to Russia after being in exile in Switzerland for fifteen years. His theses contributed greatly to the July Days uprising, between the third and seventh
Vladimir Lenin was a political leader of Russia in the early 1900s and had some of the same views as Marx. He did not want a revolution like the Americans or the French had, he simply wanted the working class Russians to start their own political
