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Communism
Communism is a political philosophy that is defined by a classless society in which all goods and property are collectively owned. Some current communist countries include China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
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Russia was not divided into separate republics when the Soviet Union was first formed. The Soviet Union was formed when Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Federation (Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) banded together to form the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union then added more and more republics. In 1991, the Soviet Union dissolved into 15 separate republics.
The Russian nobility was a group thatarose in the 14th century and essentially governedRussia until the October Revolution of 1917. As in other countries, nobility was a status, a social category, but not a title.
How is the idea of captialism different from communism?
Communism is where the government has control of businesses, lands, the economy, and land. Capitalism is where the government does not have control of all of what communism has control of.
What issues encouraged membership in the Communist Party?
Racial discrimination and poverty were issues that encouraged Communist Party membership.
How did the Bolsheviks seize power?
This was the final operational swing of the Russian Revolution. they had already induced the Czar to abdicate and had taken the Imperial family into custody, the Czarist govt. was finished. now on to the Red Revolution. They were opposed by various splits in their own ranks including the Cossacks. DSome of these Horse troopers were staunch monarchists-having been ina bodyguard police role and hesitated to go(Red) others slid riightinto the Communist slot. The Red and White Cossacks fought among themselves, this (Theater) of the war being c alled by the Soviets the Civil War between opposing factors of (Reds) and (Whites) after the Czarist fall.l The Red/clashes laste duntil l922 the year of Diaspora. Somebody left Europe for the Us aboard a Tramp steamer in that year! In l922, SHE left the old World for the New!-The Girl Czarine of Russia-You know who!
Why did Vladimir ilych change his name to Lenin?
Vladimir Illych Ulyanov changed his name to Vladimir Lenin because he was a wanted man. The secret police were try to capture him so they could arrest him, and he hoped changing his name would help him escape.
What was anoher name for the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia?
The Bolshevik Revolution is usually called the October Revolution or the Communist Revolution.
Was not part of marx's transition from capitalism to communism?
In between capitalism and communism, Marx stated there had to be a long period of socialism which would last for generations until all vestiges of capitalist thought and all members of the bourgeoisie were eliminated. During the socialist period, the country would be run by a government Marx called a "dictatorship of the proletariat." By dictatorship he did not mean the type of dictatorship that all "communist" countries have experienced, i. e. totalitarian government. Marx meant a democratically elected government but that members of the bourgeoisie would not be allowed to vote and would not be allowed to participate in running it.
What was the US policy to stop the spread of Communism called?
It was called the CONTAINMENT POLICY.
Please see this WikiAnswers Article which details how Containment worked.
What was the first country to use communism?
Yes, Russia was the first to adopt Communism. The Soviet Union did not exist yet. Karl Marx invented the idea of communism in Germany though.
Compare and contrast communism and fascism?
Fascism was a political theory developed in Italy and Germany after WW1. Many Italians and Germans were not happy that they had lost so much land in the war and wanted to claim it back. Fascists (see ADOLF HITLER) believed that MIGHT WAS RIGHT! and believed in having a single dictator to lead them, and did away with opposition brutally. (Again, ADOLF HITLER) They hated communists and dislkied foreigners, wanting to hold onto their own country's glory.
Communists (See KARL MARX and WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!) believed that a person should be paid according to their status and job as well as how much land they had and etc. They were often much more at peace that fascits, and it was the former that caused most grief.
Why was it hard for Germany to send Lenin back to Russia?
Germany sent Lenin back to Russia hoping that he would foment further revolutionary activity in Russia so that Russia would withdraw from fighting Germany in World War I. The February Revolution of 1917 had already taken place while Lenin was in Switzerland. Despite this revolution overthrowing the Tsar, the Provisional Government acting in place of the Tsar was still committed to fighting Germany in the war. The Germans knew that most Russians wanted to end their involvement in the war, so the German High Command sent Lenin back to Russia hoping he would destabilize the government and disrupt the army and perhaps even lead another rebellion. Germany even funded Lenin and his Bolshevik Party to some degree. Lenin led the October Bolshevik Revolution, ousted the pro-war Provisional Government and entered into the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Central Powers ending Russia's involvement in the war. Germany got what it wanted: an end to the war on the Russian front and the ability to move many divisions of soldiers to fight the French, British and Americans on the western front.
What are three ways thay the US reacted to the fear of communism at home?
The government outlawed the Communist Party in the US and serious efforts were made by Congressional committees to ferret out possible Communist conspirators in government and labor unions. (This effort went overboard at times and was called fairly accurately a "witch hunt". ) I presume the FBI and other anti-spy agencies worked hard to find real foreign agents. Newspaper editors and politicians worked hard to make the public aware of the "Red Menace".
How did the threat of communism during the Cold War affect the US in the period of 1945-1960?
The word "fear" may have been used for "hype purposes" but in actuality it was "a purpose for being" what we were during the cold war. And our purpose was to court neutral countries to our side if it appeared that they were swaying to "their side."
yes he did, I believe he was assassinated in Coyoacan, Mexico on 21 Augest 1940, He was killed by an ice axe in his home by one of Stalin's assasin's, Several attacks took place in his home prior to the assasination by Stalin's Assasin's aswell
Actually, no he did not. He ordered one of his men to do it for him. The Ice ase was to his skull..
Stalin was also very mean and killed a lot of people the people who disagreed with him.
What were Vladimir Lenin's followers in Russia known as?
The Bolsheviks were also known as "Communists" but not until the Seventh Party Congress of the Bolshevik Party in March 1918, when the party officially changed its name from Bolshevik to Communist.
What was the cause of Vladimir Lenin's death?
Leon Trotsky, a Bolshevik leader after the Russian revolution, was exiled, and lived in Mexico. A french man by the false name of Franck Johnson (true name Ramon Mercader) struck Trotsky on the skull with a pickax, damaging his brain. Trotsky died a little later after an operation in the hospital.
Under the leadership of the Bolsheviks became a party dedicated to violent revolution?
Under the leadership of Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, also known as V.I. Lenin
How did Vladimir Lenin stay in power?
The former Soviet Union under the command of Lenin, would have become a democracy, had he not died prematurely as a result of injuries from a terrorist attack? If the circumstances of the Civil War, had not caused a closure of the political system, there would be chance for a new kind of democracy under the leadership of Lenin? In other words, any chance for the survival of Communist theory of power out of the Stalinist deformations?
Contrary View:
The circumstances of the Russian Civil War had nothing to do with ending chances of democracy under Vladimir Lenin. The Civil War erupted because Lenin and the Bolsheviks had seized the government in a military coup instead of participating in the democratic process. Many Russians were opposed to the Bolsheviks having sole governmental power.
Lenin would never have permitted a democracy in the Soviet Union as long as anyone disagreed with his vision of what a proper socialist society should be. Lenin viewed all thoughts contrary to his own as counter-revolutionary and traitorous. It did not matter if the people of Russia wanted to remove the Bolsheviks from power, Lenin would simply not permit it. In a democracy, even a democratic republic, the people have a right to elect their government officials in a democratic way. Lenin did not permit this. Some actions he took that bear this out are:
- Lenin could have instituted democracy as soon as he took over just as the other revolutionary political parties thought he would do and as he had promised to do. But he didn't.
- Lenin abolished all the other political parties including the Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries, KaDets, anarchists, monarchist and others in order that he not have any opposition to his rule.
- Lenin then forbade all factionalism within the Bolshevik Party itself. No one, not even a Bolshevik, was permitted to propose policies other than ones Lenin wanted.
- The Civil War occurred because the Bolshevik Revolution was not a revolution. It was a military takeover of the then existing Provisional Government. Not a very democratic way to change governments, that.
- Lenin abolished the existing democratically elected Duma and arrested many of its members.
- Immediately after the October Revolution, Lenin created the VeCheKa, the Cheka, (the secret police) to promote his polices by means of state terror. The Cheka was not under the supervision of the Council of Peoples Commissars. It was answerable to Lenin only.
- Lenin abolished all trade unions, because in his opinion, they worked for the benefit of their own members rather than for the good of the country as a whole.
Essentially, Lenin did not care one bit what the majority of the people of Russia wanted. As time went on, most wanted to be rid of Bolshevik terror and oppression and had they had the right to vote for another government (democracy) they would have. Even Lenin knew this. After all, there were only a little over 1 million Bolsheviks in a country of an estimated 147 million.
