Communism

Lenin, thanks to his powerful speech-making skills and his strong leadership, took managed to get the support of the paesants and workers and directed them to the thought and action of revolution.

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Well, it depends on what exactly you mean by that.

The USSR ceased to exist in December of 1991. Though the Communist party of the USSR was disbanded at the same time, later (in 1993) the Communist Party of Russian Federation was instituted, and currently it is the second largest party in Russia. So in some sense communism never left Russia.

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Stalin was glad to be rid of Lenin so that he could now take over the Communist Party and the Soviet Union himself. Stalin had been running the government behind Lenin's back with Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev. Now he did not have to hide it. Also, Stalin was making disparaging remarks about Lenin because of his invalided condition after his strokes.

Trotsky was sad to see Lenin go, but at the same time worried because he knew what Stalin would try to eliminate him now that Lenin was no longer there to keep Stalin in line.

The political opponents of the Bolsheviks were the Mensheviks.

The New Economic Policy permitted limited forms of capitalism back into the Soviet Union's socialist economy. In agriculture, farmers were allowed to keep their own crops and sell them in an open marketplace free of price controls. In other areas, small businesses (ones employing about ten or fewer people) were allowed to own their businesses and run them their own profit.

Leadeship is always dangerous, as it implies followers who can be misled. True democracy means no leaders or vanguard.

Lenin wanted the Communist revolution and movement to spread to all neighboring countries. The Communist Internationale, also known as the Comintern, was designed to coordinate and support efforts by Marxist/socialist revolutionary groups in other countries to do this.
Lenin created the Communist International in order to have an organization that would coordinate socialist and communist revolutionary movements in as many countries worldwide as possible. This was in keeping with Marxian doctrine that a single true communist state could not survive if surrounded by capitalist states.

There are two main economic policies that Lenin pursued. The first policy was War Communism 1918-1921, which aimed to support the needs of the civil war that Russia was fighting. The policy meant nationalization of industry and food supply, including forced grain acquisitioning from peasants, to feed workers in urban areas and soldiers. This resulted in failure. Peasants hid their grain, and poor food distribution meant that many areas were hit with famine, which caused the development of a black market. Fuel and raw materials were also in short supply and there was massive inflation which was disastrous for the economy.

Lenin's next economic policy called the NEP (New Economic Policy) could be viewed as conciliation for the harsh policy of War Communism, as it encouraged the recovery of the economy. Grain requisitioning stopped, and although peasants still had to pay a tax, they were able to keep surplus grain. Smaller factories were returned to owners. Although this did result in economic revival, it was unpopular with the socialists as the policy seemed to reverting Russia back to capitalism. There were also problems of traders taking advantage of the NEP, who came to be called Nepmen, who bought goods cheaply and sold them at a higher price. There were also problems with high prices of manufactured goods, which meant that peasants were unwilling to sell their grain.

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No he did not. Lenin was dedicated to turning Russia from a capitalist country into a socialist country. Communism would come later as a result of the natural forces of society. Lenin wanted all industry and land to be owned by a strong central government rather than in the hands of individual owners.

The Russian population in 1917 was 80% rural peasants. So when the Bolsheviks won their fight against the Whites around 1921, 15 million had died (more than in World War 1), the rich land owners had their land taken by the State, the Provisional Government. This land was given to Russians to look after, those who had been given land were termed 'kulak(s).'

Once Lenin died, Stalin against Lenin's wishes seized power. He made a 5 year plan to industrialise and modernise the Russian economy. However the kulaks, Russian farmers, had extra produce and were able to sell a little on the side, earning more than the rest of the Russian populace. Stalin did not like this, because he wanted absolutely everything to be equal, he wanted his country to be united. He gave the kulaks the choice of handing over their land back to the State to collectivise the land, or to be liquidised. 15 million kulaks die or kill themselves, but before committing suicide the kill their flocks and poison their water supplies, 7 million more Russians will die from starvation.

Stalin's 5 year plan gave birth to electric-hydro dams giving electricity to Russia. Stalin was paranoid he feared someone would try and take power from him, so he had his secret police kill anyone who could possibly be a threat to his position. He had people from his Politburo (Leaders of Government) gone missing claiming that the were traitors. He had his best Generals killed because of their skill. He nearly lead Russian to their demise in WW2 where Germany had to give up because of the Russian winter they were not acclimatised to.

The Russian population was completely unaware of this at the time and only found out many years later, but they thought for decades that Stalin was a knight clad in shining white.

Stalin induced the terror, which meant he had lists made of random people who were to be made example of as traitors to the public, and their family would be deemed gulags, where they would go to Siberia (in summer the ground never fully thaws) to slave away, their life expectancy would be less than 12 months. They were not expected to survive the first winter.

Even thought there were numerous things that could have been done better, socialism (communism) was better than capitalism, because in capitalism the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, eternally dividing by the social class barriers.

In summation communism was better for the masses, but Stalin did it in a way that was doomed to failure. The reason communism fails is because there is no incentive, why should I work hard when George over there does nothing all day yet we still get paid the same amount?

Nikolai Lenin is actually Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, but sometimes he was called Nikolai. The American writer Louise Bryant knew Lenin personally and wrote a pice about him referring to him as Nikolai Lenin.

Vladimir Illytch Ulianov alias Lenin, along with Lev Bronstein, alias Trotsky, were the leaders of the Communists in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin went on to lead Russia until 1924 & Trotsky was murdered in Mexico City in 1936.

As the Industrial Revolution advanced, socialist critics blamed capitalism for the misery of the proletariat - a new class of urban factory workers who labored under often-hazardous conditions. Foremost among these critics were the German philosopher Karl Marx and his associate Friedrich Engels. In 1848, Marx and Engels offered a new definition of communism and popularized the term in their famous pamphlet The Communist Manifesto.[25] Engels, who lived in Manchester, observed the organization of the Chartist movement (see History of British socialism), while Marx departed from his university comrades to meet the proletariat in France and Germany

Capitalism is based on wage labour and production for sale. Communism has no economic system, as it has no money and so no buying and selling.

The Russian leader from 1941 to 1945 was Joseph Stalin. Stalin had to deal with World War II and its aftermath.

The February 1917 Russian Revolution brought Lenin back to Russia. He had been living in Switzerland at the time and the revolution took him by surprise. The German High Command arranged for Lenin to be transported from Switzerland to Russia in a diplomatically sealed train. The Germans wanted Lenin to create more revolutionary disruption in the hope that a new Russian government would get Russia out of World War I.

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A troika of Joseph Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev took power over Russia and the whole Soviet Union after Lenin died. Gradually, Stalin ousted all potential successors to Lenin one by one: Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Nikolai Bukharin and Lev Kamenev until he was the only one left. Not until 1929 did Stalin have sole control over the Soviet Union.

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There were many political events that led to the collapse of Communism in Europe and the end of the Cold War. However, it was not politics but economics that ultimately led to the downfall of both.