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What caused Leon Trotsky to believe that the Mensheviks were a better socialist party then the Bolsheviks?
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Leon Trotsky, being a true Marxist, took on the Menshevik view that a bourgeoisie revolution must replace the Czar. The Bolsheviks disagreed with this. Also, at the time, Trotsky was not in favor of what he saw as a ruthless organization that placed the Bolshevik Party above the workers. He held these views for a long time before changing them.
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What does Trotsky believe to be the most important characteristics of a society?
The cultures deposits in the consciousness of man himself.
What did the Bolshevik believe in?
'what's yours is mine'. The Bolsheviks believed in a strong central hierarchy with full adherence to a central committee, a style of leadership called "democratic centralism." Lenin and others were ready to push their ideas in 1917, and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II provided them the opportunity. While the Mensheviks wanted to follow the protype Marxist plan of an intermittant liberal capitalism before socialism, Lenin did not think this was necessary. His slogan of "Bread, Peace and Land" was used to counter the current provisional government in hopes of bringing the peasant and working classes in support of the Bolsheviks. It worked and during this time, several other notable leaders joined: Iosif Stalin and Trotsky. The Kerensky provisional government reciprocated by ordering the arrest of top Bolshevik leaders. Lenin was forced to go into hiding and during this time, he wrote "State and Revolution" about his ideas of a socialist government. The repression was lifted only when General Kornilov attempted to attack Petrograd. The Bolsheviks enlisted 25,000 militia men to counter them and eventually a compromise was reached with Kornilov being taken into custody. A dual power occurred for a while. The legislature and provisional governments were under Kerensky and the Mensheviks while the workers and soldiers were under the Bolsheviks. Lenin along with most Bolsheviks simply wanted an insurrection but Kerensky preempted them on October 22 by ordering the arrest of their Military Revolutionary Council, banning their newspaper and cutting their telephone wires. On October 24, the Bolshevik Red Guard was sent to occupy important locations in the city as well as the Winter Palace which housed the Provisional Government. Power was handed over on October 26 to the "Soviet Council of People's Commissars" with Lenin as chairman, Trotsky as commissar of the Red Army and minister of foreign affairs (odd that the head of the army is the minister of foreign affairs…talk about diplomacy…). It was later renamed as "All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)" in 1918.
What did Leon Trotsky believe about the Soviet oligarchy?
Writing in exile, Leon Trotsky believed that the new Soviet government was an oligarchy with Stalin in control of it. From Trotsky's point of view, the Soviet oligarchy had all the vices of the previous one under the Czar. He even went so far as saying that the old oligarchy under the Czar had a view of the future. For Trotsky, the new Soviet bureaucrats even lacked that.
Who came to power as a result of the Russian Revolution in 1917?
I believe the communist party! Not certain but I think it was lead by Stalin! Before that it was Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov: Lenin, and his sidekick Lev Bronstein: Trotsky. Lenin died in 1924 & Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by Stalins henchmen.
What did Leon Trotsky believe?
Leon Trotsky held many beliefs both in political science, economics and in Marxism. Leon Trotsky believed in the basics of Marxism. He believed that only a violent revolution could bring about a communist society in both Czarist Russia and the Russia ruled by a Provisional Government that replaced the czar when the czar had to abdicate. Trotsky understood how difficult it would be in transforming Russia to help its people. He believed that perseverance was necessary. He worked long and hard for the goal of creating a Marxist state in Russia. Trotsky also believed that Josef Stalin had abandoned Marxism and was directing the USSR into a one ruler State. That State would be controlled by Stalin.
What did Bolsheviks believe was the purpose of religion?
All Bolsheviks believed that religion was created to distract people. They believed the distraction was directed at poor people to try to fix their situations on earth by offering them perfect euphoria after they die.
What did Leon Trotsky believe about the German Soviet Non Aggression Pact of 1939?
Writing in exile, former Soviet leader, Leon Trotsky was against the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939. Trotsky hated fascism, the government of Nazi Germany, and he hated the false socialism of the USSR, a dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. Trotsky believed that based on any token of friendship between these two nations would end any hope of a true socialist state in the USSR.
What kind of economic system did the Bolsheviks believe in?
Communism
How did the communist defeat their opponent in Russia's civil war?
Russia's Civil War saw the Bolsheviks, who were the Communist Red Army, fighting the White Army. Historians believe that the Red Army won because they were more united, more enthusiastic, and better led by the commander Leo Trotsky.
Who were the Bolsheviks and what did they believe?
The Bolsheviks were a group of radical communists who wanted to overthrow the czarist government and later, the Provisional government. They were led by Vladimir Lenin
What did Leon Trotsky believe about repression to preserve a revolution?
Leon Trotsky believed that a revolutionary movement, once in power had to deal with the question of repression. For Trotsky the form of repression or the degree of repression was not one involved with principles. It was a matter of expediency.
What did Leon Trotsky believe about the Russian peasantry?
eon Trotsky held a negative view about the Russian peasantry. He believed that social and political barbarism lay in peasant villages.
What does Trotsky believe to be the most important characteristics of a society?
The cultures deposits in the consciousness of man himself.
What did the Bolshevik believe in?
'what's yours is mine'. The Bolsheviks believed in a strong central hierarchy with full adherence to a central committee, a style of leadership called "democratic centralism." Lenin and others were ready to push their ideas in 1917, and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II provided them the opportunity. While the Mensheviks wanted to follow the protype Marxist plan of an intermittant liberal capitalism before socialism, Lenin did not think this was necessary. His slogan of "Bread, Peace and Land" was used to counter the current provisional government in hopes of bringing the peasant and working classes in support of the Bolsheviks. It worked and during this time, several other notable leaders joined: Iosif Stalin and Trotsky. The Kerensky provisional government reciprocated by ordering the arrest of top Bolshevik leaders. Lenin was forced to go into hiding and during this time, he wrote "State and Revolution" about his ideas of a socialist government. The repression was lifted only when General Kornilov attempted to attack Petrograd. The Bolsheviks enlisted 25,000 militia men to counter them and eventually a compromise was reached with Kornilov being taken into custody. A dual power occurred for a while. The legislature and provisional governments were under Kerensky and the Mensheviks while the workers and soldiers were under the Bolsheviks. Lenin along with most Bolsheviks simply wanted an insurrection but Kerensky preempted them on October 22 by ordering the arrest of their Military Revolutionary Council, banning their newspaper and cutting their telephone wires. On October 24, the Bolshevik Red Guard was sent to occupy important locations in the city as well as the Winter Palace which housed the Provisional Government. Power was handed over on October 26 to the "Soviet Council of People's Commissars" with Lenin as chairman, Trotsky as commissar of the Red Army and minister of foreign affairs (odd that the head of the army is the minister of foreign affairs…talk about diplomacy…). It was later renamed as "All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)" in 1918.
Was Trotsky against capitalism?
Stalin was in fact the dictatorial ruler of the state capitalist USSR.
What did Leon Trotsky believe about the Soviet oligarchy?
Writing in exile, Leon Trotsky believed that the new Soviet government was an oligarchy with Stalin in control of it. From Trotsky's point of view, the Soviet oligarchy had all the vices of the previous one under the Czar. He even went so far as saying that the old oligarchy under the Czar had a view of the future. For Trotsky, the new Soviet bureaucrats even lacked that.
Socialist believe economic equality is only possible if?
the public controls the economy
