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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, otherwise known as Lenin, was the Communist Russian revolutionary who led the October Revolution of 1917. He was the leader of the Bolshevik Party and Russia during the Civil War. On his death in 1924, his body was embalmed and put on exhibit in the Lenin Mausoleum.
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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.
What was Lenin's main concern about Stalin?
Lenin felt that Stalin was far too harsh and that he would not make a good leader, but after his unexpected death in 1924, Lenin did not name his succesor, and Stalin took that chance to take power.
What year did Vladimir Lenin lead the Russian Revolution?
It was 1917 when Lenin and the Bolsheviks in a nearly bloodless coup took over the Provisional Government that had been in place since the February 1917 revolution. The Provisional Government was dissolved and Lenin assumed power in Russia. It wasn't until 1920 that his hold on Russia was solidified, because the Russian Civil War soon broke out and lasted until 1920.
Who became leader of Russia after the Russian revolution?
After Vladimir Illyich Lenin's death, both of his successors Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin competed against each other. Unfortunately for Trotsky, Stalin had used propaganda and deceit to force Trotsky into exile (to Mexico, where he is eventually assassinated). Stalin was a Soviet premier until 1953.
Who leader did Leon Trotsky work closely with after the Russian Revolution?
Immediately after the revolution, Trotsky became the first Commissar of Foreign Affairs. Then at the outset of the Russian Civil War he became Commissar of War. He organized the Red Army in order to fight the opposing White Russian forces.
What was one effect of the Bolshevik Revolution on the US?
Immigration laws were changed to allow
refugees from Russia.
Compare and contrast the rise of power between Lenin and Stalin?
Although Lenin and Stalin were very different they still had some similarities. When Lenin gained rule, the first couple of years, all he yearned for was to put down the civil war. He wanted to help and repair both the state and economy after it was basically destroyed after World War 1, both revolutions, and the long, hard years of the civil war. He tried to accomplish this by doing many things, and started with the government. First they came up with something called the Supreme Soviet which gave all the citizens 18 and older, the right to vote. This helped because it allowed more people to be involved and gave people an opportunity to put their input. Which was illusionary. Also, Lenin tried to create a new government which brought a lot of the old Russian Empire in the Soviet Union together. He was able to succeed in some things, but after he retreated from policy of war communism, this almost brought down the entire economy to an end. After this, things began to go in the opposite direction. Peasants refused to work and factories and mines outputs had dropped. But he was able to fix the problems by compromising with capitalism which assisted the Soviet economy to recover. That being said, the lifestyle of the people never improved. Unfortunately, in the year 1924 Lenin died suddenly.
After this, Stalin decided to take over. Before Lenin's death, he did speak his mind about Stalin. He described him as rude and not a good leader. Stalin was a sharp political operator. After becoming the general secretary of a communist party, he decided to take advantage of that position by forming a group of communist officials. He wanted to focus his time on building socialism at home. Stalin was a very violent leader though. Trotsky, who also wanted to be leader but lost to Stalin, fled after being isolated by Stalin. Stalin then sent one of his agents to murder him, and Trotsky was killed. This shows that he was a violent leader. Another one of Stalin's aims was to make the Soviet Union into a modern industrial power. In order to help his wishes to be granted, he came up with something called the five-year plan. This was meant to build a strong industry and to have transportation progress. Later he decided to put everything under government rule. Things did begin to progress but still economy was bad, and wages were low. The food was scarce and workers had little to show for their sacrifices. Stalin killed thousands of peasants after they refused collectivization. They killed animals, destroyed tools, and burned the crops and in return Stalin either sent people to murder them or had them die from overworking. But still Stalin was not satisfied. He feared that rival parties were plotting against him, and to take care of that he created the purge. Although the purge increased his power, it hurt his army which he paid for later when Germany attacked.
Few will deny that Lenin was also a violent leader.
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.
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 type of government was established after Lenin came to power in Russia?
The Provisional Government
First led by Prince Georgy Lvov, then by Alexander Kerensky
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
Why was there extreme poverty during the Russian revolution?
Russia was so poor because before the revolution there was not a lot of jobs out there until the revolution and people were changing there style
What was the New Economic Policy and how was it executed?
Lenin's "New Economic Policy" (NEP) was first executed in March 1921. It reverted to state capitalism; the state was to continue owning all major industry and financial concerns, while the people were allowed to have private property, trade freely within limits, and, most of all, farm land for themselves. Fixed taxes on the peasantry was used instead of grain requisitioning (the plus side was that anything that peasants grew beyond tax requirements was theirs to keep/do whatever they wanted!). The figure most associated with the NEP was Nikolai Bukharin, a young Bolshevik who believed that the best way to industrialize the Soviet Union was to tax private peasant economic activity. Peasants were thus encouraged to "enrich themselves" so their taxes could support industrialization.
This was a fairly easy policy to execute. Simple collection of taxes and leniency on private trade/property was introduced throughout the country. Peasants were allowed to do as they pleased, and they responded by actually decreasing the discrepancies in wealth between the rich and the poor (they divided redivided noble lands among themselves), sticking to traditional social structures, and by producing large quantities of grain.
When did the Bolsheviks take control of the Russian Government?
On December 29-30, 1922, the Treaty of the Soviet Union was entered into by Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation to form the Soviet Union.By that date however, the Bolsheviks had renamed themselves Communists and no longer went by the name Bolshevik.
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.
In November 1917 what did Lenin do do prepare for the Bolshevik revolution?
Lenin returned to Russia in April after living in exile in Switzerland after the February Revolution toppled the Tsar. Then he planned and led the Bolshevik coup known as the October Revolution, deposed the Provisional Government and took over control of Russia.
What was Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution?
The "Bolshevik Revolution" was more particularly known as the "October Revolution" in 1917. It is called this, because there had been two revolutions in Russia in 1917, one in February (called the February Revolution) and one in October (called the October Revolution) in order to distinguish one from the other.
The Bolshevik Revolution is the one which overthrew the Provisional Government of Russia and put Lenin and the Bolshevik Party (later renamed Communist Party) in power. The February Revolution is the one which forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate the throne.
Leon Trotsky became a political enemy of Josef Stalin. Stalin's fear of any descent from his policies were tantamount to treason. Stalin believed that if one of the original Bolsheviks, such as a Trotsky, could gather strength, there could be a revolution against Stalin's regime. Therefore Stalin put a price on Trosky's head. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico.
What was Vladimir Lenin's campaign promise?
Lenin's promise to the people of Russia was "Peace! Land! Bread!" By 1917 the Russian people were ready for a change in government because Tsar Nicholas II's government simply no longer worked. "Peace, Land, Bread" meant three basic desires of the Russian people. Peace meant ending Russian involvement in World War I. Incompetence in the army led to huge losses in life. Land meant the abolition of private property and a redistribution of land. Bread meant an end to widespread shortages of basic foods. The Tsarist rule in Russia had already been ended in the February Revolution, but the problems that led to that revolution persisted even with the new government. In three words, Lenin captured the needs of the Russian people to the extent that they were willing to follow him in setting up another government.
With that said, the new Provisional government had little time to change Russian society. Lenin changed it with a dictatorship of the Bolshevik Party. It was not a dictatorship of the working class.
