Vladimir Lenin

Yes. It was founded in 1917 soon after the Bolshevik Revolution and for most of the period 1917-1926 it was headed by Felix Dzherzhinsky. It had various various names and from 1954 till the collapse of the USSR in 1991 it was referred to as the KGB.

Joseph Stalin opposed Trotsky in their struggle for power after Vladimir Lenin died in 1924.

Russia became the ussr when the Bolsheviks took power in 1917 (I believe that's the date) and Lenin took power then Stalin took power and then the soviet union collapsed and Boris Yeltsin became the first president of russia I hope that answers your question

Nikita Khrushchev replaced Joseph Stalin, who died in 1953.

The Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 saw the Bolsheviks seize the main power base in Russia. They staged an armed insurrection in Petrograd and succeeded in establishing themselves as the new governing power.

Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks in engineering the October Revolution in Russia.
Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the October Revolution, since he was the leader of the Bolshevik Party, which staged the coup to depose the Provisional Government of Russia.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks staged a military coup rather than a true revolution on October 25, 1917 to take power away from the Russian Provisional Government. They seized important strategic installations in Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Moscow and other important cities. They railway stations so that troops could not be moved to fight the Bolsheviks. They seized telegraph and telephone centers so that the Provisional Government could not communicate with forces loyal to them. They had already gotten support from Russia's military forces who refused to take action against the Bolshevik takeover. These actions made the Provisional Government unable to defend itself and the Bolsheviks walked into the Winter Palace and arrested the members of the Provisional Government with hardly a shot fired. They then announced to the country that they were now in charge.

The Czar rule in Russia lasted nearly 300 years. The first Czar was put into power in 1613 and the last Russian Czar ended his reign in 1917.

Lenin did not lose his power in Russia as much as he became too ill to exercise it. In 1922 he suffered a serious stroke and lost some ability to speak and write. He suffered another stroke after that and was confined completely unable to communicate and was confined to a wheelchair. In that condition he actually asked for someone to give him poison so he could die, but no one could bring himself to do that. In 1924 he suffered a massive stroke that killed him. Had Lenin not had the debilitating strokes he would have remained in power.

Willingness to work with the current government.

Julius Martov believed that the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party party should consist of as many members as possible in the way that Karl Marx envisioned all workers uniting to overthrow capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin believed that the party should consist of a small group of professional revolutionaries to lead the way. He felt it was madness for what amounted to an outlawed political party to be open to membership by all , because it would easily be infiltrated by the Tsarist secret police and that it would be too unwieldy to do what needed to be done when it ws needed to overthrow the Tsar.

When this disagreement could not be resolved, Lenin created the Bolshevik faction of the

The Communist Manifesto written in 1848 stated that there would be and "Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes." This was completely implemented in Russia, but altered slightly so that it allowed most children to remain in the homes their parents grew up in even if they did not legally own it. The Manifesto also stated that there would be "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax." Lenin definitely distorted this element when he implemented a full pay scale controlled by the government, which picked and chose how much money each person would receive according to their needs. Because the citizens were receiving (in a sense) government money, each person was obligated to work for a government job. If any man was found not in accordance with this law, they could be sentenced to prison or exile.

The idea of a proletariat revolution was first brought up by Marx who believed that it would occur internationally. Lenin countered the idea later by stating his belief that it could occur in a single country and intended to implement it in Russia. To ensure its success, because Russia did not run on a capitalist system, Lenin created a new form of Capitalism.

Another significant difference between Marxism and Leninism is that Marx saw the necessary elements of a revolution among the workers of an industrialized nation, such as England. Lenin's revolution was in an agriculturally dominated society. Lenin in fact, made Marxism fit into Russia. Marx also believed the capitalists would by the "science of his economics" revolt against the capitalists. Lenin's Bolshevik revolt was against the socialist minded Mensheviks. This group led its revolution against a monarchy, not a capitalist society.

In addition to the above, Marx would have never agreed to Lenin's NEC policy. Also many claim that Lenin was so flexible that almost anything he did or wrote could be a cause for change & claim it was Leninism. One large example of this came in 1962. Both the Soviet Union and China claimed that "their" version of Lenin on peaceful coexistence was correct. It was a bitter struggle between the Soviets & China.

The most important factors were Bloody Sunday and the Czar's mistreatment of the people

Bloody Sunday occurred in 1905, therefore it could not have been one of the most important factors that enabled the Bolsheviks to seize power in October 1917. Bloody Sunday led to the feeling that the Tsar should be overthrown but not that the Bolsheviks should be in power.

An important factor that enabled the Bolsheviks to seize power was that they were the one political party that had armed forces at its disposal. This was the Military Revolutionary Committee that had been set up days before the actual revolution. It was under the control of the Petrograd Soviet, which by then was under the Bolsheviks with Leon Trotsky at its head. With this armed force the Bolsheviks were able to seize and hold vital transportation, communication and military installations. This paralyzed the Provisional Government from alerting its own forces to what was happening and preventing it from bringing in troops to fight against the armed Bolsheviks.

Another important factor was that the Bolsheviks had so infiltrated the Petrograd garrison that its soldiers were more loyal to the Bolsheviks than to their own commanders. The result was that when the Provisional Government tried to order the garrison out to fight the Bolsheviks, it refused to do so.

reduce government control over the economy.

Lenin was living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland at the onset of World War 1. In April, 1917, with the help of the German government, he went back to Russia. In July 1917, he fled to Finland to escape the Tsarist police after an attempt to overthrow the Tsar failed. Then Lenin came back into Russia, hid out until the October Revolution and remained in Russia until the end of World War 1.

Americans as well as virtually all of the Western world's capitalist countries feared Lenin and the Bolsheviks because their stated goal was that of world revolution and communism.

Lenin felt that according to standard Marxian doctrine, one communist country could not survive amidst other capitalist countries. Lenin and the Bolsheviks posed a threat to every capitalist country because of their vowed intention to stir up worker unrest and foment communist revolutions in all non-communist countries.

Lenin seized power via the October Revolution in 1917. Power was given to the soviets, led by the Bolshevik's faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. They established the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and became the first socialist state.

The very first thing Lenin did was to abolish the private ownership of property and nationalize such property in the central government. Later things were abolishing all other political parties, ending Russia's involvement in World War 1 and instituting the Red Terror whereby all dissenters from his programs were wither arrested, exiled or murdered.

they were Russian social democrats who wanted a change in government brought about by an industrial revolution. The Party was considered illegal so majority of the members were either in prison or in exile until August 1917 when the Provisional Government requested their help in trying to fight of General Kornilovs troops who were believed to be staging a military coup. After this the Bolshevik popularity grew with membership increasing to 2 million. They staged the 1917 October Revolution where they arrested the Provisional Government and declared themselves in power through the use of the Military Revolutionary Committee.

The Russian Civil War occurred in 1917 and lasted till 1923. During this time the communist revolution in Russia took place and Lenin and the Bolsheviks implemented their change. In 1917 the Bolsheviks made their first attempt however they were crushed by the Red Guards. In 1918 peace negotiations between the Germans and the Bolshoviks broke down. The Treaty of Brest Litovsk pulled Russia out of WWI and gave Germany vast amounts of Russia. In 1919 the Bolshovik government was now in control of the core of Russia, from St Petersburg to Moscow In 1920 the war between the White Army and the Red army continued In 1921-1923 the Red Army was in control of Russia. The era of communism had begun

The German government kept in touch with exiled Bolsheviks in the hope they could successfully remove Russia from the war. Hopes Russia would withdraw after the February Revolution were dashed when the provincial liberal government decided to continue to fight. Germany decided to send Lenin and several other emigres who were opposed to the war and the provisional government back to Russia with hopes of toppling the liberal government. The Bolsheviks came to power and published their peace proposal. Russia lost heavy in the treaty. Russia lost control of the East Anatolian provinces, Poland, Finland and the Baltic states. The Ukraine became an independent country and Russia lost over 50 million residents and one million square kilometers of land.

The Bolsheviks main opponents were called the Mensheviks.

Two slogans were "Peace! Bread! Land!" and "All Power to the Soviets." Vladimir Lenin concocted these and never fulfilled either one. He did end Russia's part in World War 1, but his takeover of the government in the Bolshevik Revolution set off the Russian Civil War.

Russia was communist for 70 years. It had more than one leader. From 1917 to 1989, they were: Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, Nikita Khruschev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuriy Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko & Mikhail Gorbachev. The bloodiest was Josef Stalin. He murdered twice as many people as Hitler.