Vladimir Lenin

In 1920 Lenin adopted a new revolutionary strategy that were aimed at societies outside of the Western world. He spread the work of Karl Marx through the communist International, or Comintern, a worldwide organization of Communist parties formed in 1919 to advance world revolution.

source: Glencoe World History text book. Chapter 25 section 2, page 831. This is a High school history text book.

Yes, they were known as Bolsheviks but after they came into power and abolished all other political parties and factions, the changed their name to the Communist Party in March 1918. Their reasoning was that while before the revolution there were several Marxist political parties, now that all of them had been eliminated, the Bolsheviks were the only Marxist party in existence. Thus it had the sole right to call itself the Communist Party.

At first, lenin... then lenin died and Stalin screwed with the succession and seized power.

At the time of the revolution, the Russian Empire still was using the ancient Julian calendar, which had been discarded some 150 years earlier by most Western countries. The result was that each day in Russia was dated 13 days earlier than the same day in the West.

According to the old calendar, the date of the Bolshevik revolution was October 25. But according to the new Gregorian calendar, the date actually was November 7.

Only after the Bolsheviks established the Soviet Union did the country adopt the new calendar. So it was the Bolsheviks themselves who were responsible for changing the date of their October Revolution of October 25 to the national celebration November 7.

I'm just now looking into this so don't quote me for accuracy, but I have good reason to present my theory.

I know that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian-communist country rather a country of true communist ideology. I will not attempt to explain totalitarianism because I have limited knowledge of it.

I believe that the Soviet Union fell because of its engagement in the Cold War. Communism strictly discourages competition between individuals and, therefore, between countries. The Union's activity in the Cold War shows that it was not Communism at all that failed. It was the excessive use of limited economic and natural resources that caused the country to fold in on itself.

If this is true, (which I believe it is) then it was the pursuit of political power (which is not a very Communist thing to partake in) that destroyed the USSR.

there's my theory. look into and see if it fits, afterall I've only been studying Communism for about two hours xD

John J Pershing

Was the leader of the American Expeditionary Forces.

Lenin took power from the Russian Provisional Government headed at that time by Alexander Kerensky. Lenin did not take power from or overthrow the Tsar. That has already been done by the time Lenin took control.

There were a few different events that lead to WWI, but one major one was the Zimmerman Telegram. It was a telegram from Germany to Mexico. It proposed that Mexico join the war on their side, and in return, Germany would help Mexico win back it's territory from the US, such as Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Stalin's enemies were often punished, by being physically and emotionally embarresed by being drug out of office beaten, and ordered to be killed

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they believed everyone were failures at life

The leader of Russia was Tsar Nicholas II, the leader of France was Raymond Poincare (president, not prime minister), and the leader of England was King George V (more of a figurehead) and H.H. Asquith was the Prime Minister.

Stalin had always supported the Bolsheviks, while Trotsky only switched from the Menshevik party to the Bolshevik party after it was apparent that the Bolsheviks would win. Trotsky was a thinker with brilliant speeches, Stalin used force for votes. Trotsky led the army, while Stalin was the secretary. Stalin had great political appeal, but Trotsky had great militaristic and organisational appeal. Furthermore, Stalin was mentally and physically strong, but after Lenin's death, Trotsky began breaking down. The power struggle between the two sparked a conflict in which Trotsky fled the USSR but was later disposed.

The Prime Minister is the head of the Russian government and the President is the head of the Russian state.

allowed elements of capitalism within a communist economic system

Joseph Stalin was the "totalitarian" leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin, however he did not have dictatorial powers immediately after Lenin's death in 1924. It took Stalin until the mid 1930's before he had eliminated almost all of his equals in the Communist Party and installed people loyal to him personally in positions of power. Once he had done that he became the totalitarian leader that history remembers him as.

Stalin was imprisoned and exiled several time in his life. He was arrested and jailed outside Baku in Bailov Prison in March 1908. Then he was sent into internal exile but escaped. He was recaptured on March 23, 1910 and again locked up in Bailov Prison and again sent into exile. Once again he escaped and went back to St. Petersburg. On September 9, 1910 he was caught a third time, imprisoned and on December 25 sent back into exile.

Stalin managed to get away from the town he was exiled to, but on February 23, 1913, he was again arrested and this time sentenced to exile in a particularly disagreeable town in Siberia, which is where he stayed for the next four years until the February Revolution in 1917 toppled the Tsar. With no Tsarist forces to arrest him again, Stalin got on a train back to St. Petersburg.

The Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party) led the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The previous revolution in that year, the February Revolution, was not ed by any particular political party.

Because he ate a bad hamburger that day

Alexander Kerensky was head of the Russian Provisional Government and leader of Russia before the Communist Revolution in October 1917. Tsar Nicholas II had bee leader of Russia but he had already abdicated as a result of the February Revolution.

The Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government which had been put in place after the tsar abdicated the throne. The Bolsheviks did not overthrow the czar, but they did murder him.
In the October Revolution (November on the Gregorian calendar), the Bolshevik party overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd. The moderate socialists were not respected by the radical Bolsheviks.

Vladimir Lenin led the rebel Bolshevik Party in the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia. There was no such leader in the February Revolution. That was a spontaneous unorganized mass demonstration that convinced the Tsar that he had to abdicate the throne.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Nikolai Chernyevksy and Georgii Plekhanov also greatly influenced Lenin's revolutionary beliefs.

Chernyevsky wrote the revolutionary novel, "What Is To Be Done" in 1862. Lenin was so influenced by this novel that he gave his own revolutionary pamphlet the same name. He even styled himself along the lines of the hero of the book, a man named Rakhmetev. One author of Russian history stated that Lenin read this novel five times in one summer.

Plekhanov wrote a book called "On the Question of Developing a Monistic View of History" in 1895. This is the book that brought Marxism to Russia. For this reason, Plekhanov is often referred to as the founder of Russian Marxism.