Vladimir Lenin

Lenin believed pure communism could not be achieved immediately. What he began instead was the "New Economic Policy". He believed this would put Russia on the road to pure communism over time. He also sought cooperation from other nations in order to bring the desired economic state about.

The Communist Internationale, also known as the 'Comintern', was an organization created by Vladimir Lenin to foment communist revolutionary spirit and activity in all of the industrialized countries nearby. Russia became a virtual pariah among other countries because of its interference and meddling in the affairs and governments of other countries.

Lenin began to lose power on May 25, 1922, when he suffered a serious stroke which partially paralyzed his right side and temporarily cost him the ability to speak. For awhile he could no longer exercise governmental powers, leaving Joseph Stalin, Gregori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev to run the country in his absence. He returned in September, but Stalin and others operated behind Lenin's back making governmental decisions that they did not disclose to Lenin.

On December 15, 1922, Lenin suffered another serious stroke. Stalin took this opportunity to isolate Lenin from all governmental operations under the pretense that he was helping Lenin recover by making things easy for him.

In March 1923, Lenin had his third stroke, which permanently cost him the ability to speak. He was virtually wheelchair bound and there was no doubt he would never return to power. He died on January 21, 1924.

He had no choice. He had to end the Russian involvement in the war because that was one of the main promises he'd made to the people. Germany knew they had him "over a barrel" and took full advantage.

The revolutionaries in Russia wanted to create a government where they were equally represented and wouldn't be ignored as in the governemtn run by the Tsars. They also wanted to get rid of the noble class that had abused them for so long.

Social Equality and Economic Democracy

His connections with some of the leading anarchist magazines and their editors. One editor being Lenin whom was the leader of the Bolsheviks that would eventually gain full power over the USSR, and his extremely ambitious personality. I know that's not a great answer but i have only been studying this subject briefly

His connections with some of the leading anarchist magazines and their editors. One editor being Lenin whom was the leader of the Bolsheviks that would eventually gain full power over the USSR, and his extremely ambitious personality. I know that's not a great answer but i have only been studying this subject briefly anyone who would like to correct me or to please add more info do so.

Stalin saw Leon Trotsky as a threat to his power as the Soviet leader. Trotsky had been a vocal critic of Stalin and Stalin's so-called "communists". Stalin had Trotsky exiled and later assassinated. Even in exile, Trotsky was considered as a major threat by Stalin. Trotsky's ideas were being spread around the world in Marxist circles. Stalin believed he had to liquidate the Marxist Trotsky.

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 was initiated by millions of people who would change the history of the world as we know it. When Czar Nicholas II dragged 11 million peasants into World War I, the Russian people became discouraged with their injuries and the loss of life they sustained. The country of Russia was in ruins, ripe for revolution.

when those in power are resistant to change.

Marx and Lenin are communist leaders

Marx (1818 -1883) and Engels first conceived Communism and wrote the communist manifesto (1848) and capital (1867)

and Lenin was the leader of the October revaluation and the storming of the winter palace

ie marx created communisum - lenin tried to put his theory into practice

One of the achievement of the Russian revolution is that it led to better administration of the civilians. The revolution also helped reduce inflation and the agrarian shortages of fuel, grains and food.

Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks during the Bolshevik Revolution.

The revolution of 1917 was caused by a gradual weakening of the monarchy by Rasputin, the mystic who was caring for Nicholas II's hemophilic son, as well as growing socioeconomic and political discontent. Nicholas II was a conservative authoritarian ruler, and the people were tired of being oppressed. They were ready for a more democratic government. Also, Russia was in the midst of an economic crisis after World War I, and many of the peasants were living in cramped, poor conditions and being forced to work long hours.

In 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (alias Lenin) seized control of Russia in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, created the Soviet Union and ruled it until his death in 1924. Lenin was one of the leading political figures in the 20th century. He was the revolutionary thinker behind the USSR idea (a.k.a. The Great Soviet Union), fought to materialize it and masterminded the Bolshevik bloody takeover of power in Russia after Russia's withdrawal from World War One. Lenin's reign as the head of the newly created Soviet Union was brief, but his influence stretched throughout the 20th century.

The Soviet Union was founded after World War I (1914-1919) in 1922. As a result, there was no Soviet leader in World War I. The Russian Leader from 1914-1917 was Czar Nicholas II Romanov of the Russian Empire. He was overthrown in 1917 in the Russian Revolutions, which created a power vacuum from 1917-1922, filled by several interim presidents like Alexander Kerensky.

The Bolsheviks wanted to end the war, give workers and peasants control over their own economic and political affairs and spread socialism throughout Europe. They wanted to develop industry and agriculture within Russia so as to provide anough material goods and enough food for the whole population. They were thwarted in these goals however by the Tsarists, Mensheviks and Right Social Revolutionaries who joined forces and terrorised the Bolsheviks.

Lenin ended Russia's involvement in World War I by entering the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany and the other Central Powers in 1918.
Lenin had been exiled from Russia for fomenting unrest with the Czar. He was living in Switzerland during most of the war. The Germans helped him get back home, through "The Finland Station". This worked out for Germany in WWI, because the October 1917 Revolution which Lenin led resulted in Russian withdrawal from the war, but it came back to bite them in WWII, when the Russians overran eastern Germany and stayed there for more than forty years.

Yes, Lenin was a communist, although his ideas on how a country should become communist were not the same as Karl Marx's ideas. Lenin often deviated from strict Marxist ideology in order to accomplish his personal agenda.

The Russian Revolution, which consisted of the February Revolution in which Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate and the Bolshevik Revolution known as the October Revolution or Red October, in which the Bolsheviks (later known as Communists) deposed the Provisional Government and took control of the country.

The Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin took over Russia in 1917. In March 1918, the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Communist Party.

Both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin called for economic restructuring but in different ways. Lenin's plan was called the New Economic Policy, which reintroduced limited forms of capitalism in the now socialist Russian economy. Joseph Stalin scrapped the NEP and instituted a series of Five Year Plans designed to increase the industrial and agricultural capacity of the country.

The October Revolution was the second of the two Russian Revolutions in 1917. The October Revolution, also called the Bolshevik Revolution, is when Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik followers took control of the Russian government from the Russian Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky. It put he Bolsheviks, later called Communists, in charge of Russia.

Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution was not a revolution of the people. It was an armed insurrection or military coup by the Bolshevik Party alone. It did not remove Tsar Nicholas II from the throne. That had already been done in March of 1917.

At first, the new nation was called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. It was never changed to the Soviet Union. The "Soviet Union was the name of a new country formed by the union of Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation.