Why did Lenin want to withdraw from World War 1?
Lenin wanted to satisfy the people of Russia who were against the war so he promised them them that the Bolsheviks would do so if they were in power. Also, Russia was taking great losses in the war and thousands of soldiers were deserting and refusing to fight.
When Lenin did take over though he changed his tune and kept the war going while trying to arrange an acceptable peace with Germany. When Germany would not accept surrender on favorable terms he proposed continuing at least a defensive war. Eventually Germany resumed hostilities in full against Russia and only then did Lenin settle the war and then his main motivation was the preservation of his own position in power, because Germany began marching toward his capital with the aim to remove him and replace him with a puppet government.
What changes did Lenin bring to the Soviet Union?
Lenin changed the nations names to Union Of Soviet Socialist Replubics or the Soviet Union. He also organized the Communist Party into a strong, tightly run group.
Was Joseph Stalin or Vladimir Lenin put in a glass coffin?
Vladimir Lenin's body was placed in a glass coffin after it was treated with chemicals to preserve it so it would not decay. Joseph Stalin is the one who proposed that against the wishes of Lenin's wife, Krupskaia and his colleague, Leon Trotsky.
Communism and domino effect in Vietnam?
If South Vietnam fell to the communist north, then the neighboring countries of Lao's and Cambodia would fall to the communists next...then Thailand, then Burma, India, Pakistan, etc. This was the domino effect. Yes and Australia believed that if these countries fell, Australia would be next. This started the Vietnam war.
What are facts about the Bolsheviks?
Bolsheviks were a revolutionary political party in early 20th century Russia. They opposed the Romanov autocratic rule.
Why did Lenin distrust Stalin?
because Stalin was too rude and this become quite intolerable in a General Secretary
What is communism like in Russia?
Its Russians trying to improve their country. And communism is only a political system in which the central government owns farms and factories and offices.
W.E.B Du Bois was an American socialist who took part in a number of civil rights movements.
Which group was the communist secret police in russia?
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the communist secret police in Russia. Abbreviations for the group are actually NKVD.
Nikolai lenin led communist revolutionaris to overthrow the provisional government of?
Lenin led communist revolutionaries to overthrow the provisional government of Russia in November 1917. This led to Russia having the first communist government in the world.
What is Communism and how does it relate to the Korean War?
Communism is when someone is the ruler of the whole city town state or world. it is very well involved in the Korean war because during the war the ruler was trying to tell everyone what they could do and what they couldn't do !
How would the history of the USSR have been different if Trotsky had succeeded Lenin?
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The map that accompanies this question shows all of the Communist countries that existed in the 1980s. Currently, only Cuba is a true Communist country. Cambodia, Vietnam, and China are Leninst Capitalist States that are dominated by "Communist" Parties. North Korea is a supernationalist fascist state with a political dynasty that uses the appellation "communist" even though it has none of the economic policies that would characterize communism. The rest of the countries on this map have either (1) embraced democracy (like Poland, Mongolia, and Angola), (2) have had violent changes of government (like Eritrea, Somalia, and Afghanistan), or (3) ceased to exist as countries (like the Soviet Union or South Yemen).
Who was the Russian revolutionary leader who was sent to Russia in a sealed train?
Vladimir Lenin was sent back to Russia by the German government in April 1917 in the hopes that he would disrupt the Russian war effort or even cause a revolution to get Russia out of the war.
Where did President Johnson send 22000 Marines to combat communism in 1965?
In 1965 President Johnson did not send 22,000 marines to combat communism. He sent 42,000 Marines to Dominican Republic to destroy a legitimate government, that had nothing to do with Communism.
Who reversed Lenin's New Economic Policy and started Five-Year Plans?
Joseph Stalin reversed Lenin's New Economic Policy and instituted the Five Year Plans.
Joseph Stalin began the Five-Year Plans.
The various ideologies that come under the banner of communism (and by extension, socialism) are still alive in various forms around the world. In terms of governments calling themselves communist or socialist, this has largely ended since 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The specific communist ideology that the USSR operated under (and Cuba still does) is Marxism-Leninism (also known as Stalinism). This however, is just one of the many, many ideologies falling under the socialism banner. But thanks to much propaganda and misinformation from capitalist nations, and to people like Joseph McCarthy, communism has become synonymous with the authoritarian Marxist-Leninist governments throughout the 20th century.
It should be noted that none of the 'Communist' Marxist-Leninist nations in history ever actually achieved a society that matches the definition of communism - one that is stateless, moneyless, and classless. This was usually due to the creation of authoritarian bureaucracies by people more concerned with power and status than the state of the working class. These bureaucracies began to stray from the goal of socialism or communism, for various historical and ideological reasons.
It is easy to dismiss the entire ideology and it's various forms by stating something about 'human nature', as so many who don't understand much about it or it's history do. But socialism and communism are still alive and well in union movements, activist organisations and political parties around the world. To dismiss it entirely is to ignore its history and successes throughout the world and throughout recent history.
How did Lenin and the Bolsheviks take control of the revolution in 1917?
You mean the November or Bloshevik Revolution. There had been a March Revolution earlier that year which forced the czar to abdicate and created a Provisional democratic government to rule until a permanent parliment could be organized. In November, members of the Bolshevik minority in the Petrograd Soviet (council) staged a coup in the capital Petrograd, taking over banks and other establishments. The Provisionall Government couldn;t do much about it, so they were overthrown in favor of the Bolsheviks, who subsequently pulled Russia out of World War I.
Was Lenin a liberator or oppressor in the Russian Revolution?
An oppressor, absolutely and flatly. The difficulties of life and the limits of political expression under the Tsarist regime were as nothing to the horrors of communism. Consider the fact that Adolph Hitler was a great admirer of the way Lenin got things done and modeled much of the Third Reich's terror apparatus after what Lenin and Stalin had created in Russia. A liberator, undoubtedly. He freed the people of Russia from a cruel and unpopular regime and replaced it with a state on its way to the freest society ever conceived by man, communism. A liberator because when he came to power he took Russia out of WW1 and spread the wealth of the kingdom and other rich people Although the majority of Russians was still starving this new country gave people hope and sometimes that is all you need
Which small faction did Lenin become the leader of?
Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik Party. At first it was a minority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, but eventually it split off and became its own party.