Vladimir Lenin

Karl marx was the founder of the idea of socialism. the Russian revolution was to free from the idea being applied.

Before communists took over in Russia, Russia had many world-famous writers and musicians. The control of Communists over all areas of life, including art and philosophy, led many talented Russians to flee their homeland for freedom in the west. Some were forced into exile for their stand against the evils of communism. After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the secret police of the Cheka and the KGB brought the people under the rule of COMMUNIST DICTATOR NIKOLAI LENIN with the threat of arrest, imprisonment, torture, exile to slave labor camps, or even death.

There are many different types of Russian leaders. One popular Russian that is considered a leader is the famous Czar.

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Vladimir lenin, 1870-1924

it was so named after,William and Mary of orange.

After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Russia changed dramatically for one fundamental reason: the new leaders of the nation, the Communists, had vastly different ideas about governing and about social arrangements than the monarchical rulers who had been overthrown. Following the vision of Karl Marx (with some additions or revisions of their own), the Russian Communists rebuilt society along Communistic lines.

There are 5 countries under Communism: Vietnam, Cuba, China, Laos, and North Korea.

Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and China are the main five communist states, though none of these countries practice pure communism.

China, Cuba, thailand and lots of eastern countries.

Russia had an autocratic government prior to the Russian Revolution, being ruled by one person, Tsar Nicholas II. It did have an elected body called the Duma, which was instituted after a small revolution in 1905 by Tsar Nicholas II, however it had virtually no power to make laws that the Tsar had to honor. It was more like an advisory body, so it cannot be said that it had a true democracy prior to the revolutions of 1917.

Fidel Castro was a revolutionary leader who established a communist regime in Cuba. His primary ally in the revolution was Che Guvarra. He was the first secretary of the communist party of Cuba from 1961 to 2011. He was also a Prime Minister, President, and Commander in Chief.

No, he was against the idea of capitalism and in favor of socialism. Ironically, when the Russian economy failed after the Russian Civil War, Lenin turned to aspects of capitalism in his New Economic Policy in order to improve the economy. Most other Bolsheviks were dead set against the NEP.

Lenin's group was the Bolshevik Party. After the October Revolution when it was the sole power in the country and all other political parties were being eliminated, it changed its name to the Communist Party in March 1918.

The Germans are the ones who assisted Lenin to power. They did this with the expectation that he would undermine the Russian efforts in the war.

Tsar Nicholas II until 1917 and the March Revolution, then a Provisional Government took charge until the Worker's Soviet (Bolsheviks) took power from them in the October Revolution and installed Valdimir Lenin as Russia's new leader.

The greatest successes in communism in USSR was to overthrow the inefficient government and to bring forward very progressive development plans.

Some background information is needed here so that the reader has a better understanding of the NEP ( New Economic Policy )

The successful Bolshevik revolution in November, 1917 replaced ideology and any internal disputes the Bolsheviks had among themselves ( for the time being ) with the immense responsibility of leading a huge nation with all its complications that had always existed was still there with the exception of having having the Communist Party an illegal one.

Marxism provided no details on how his ideology should deal with industry, workers & their labor unions, the military and most importantly, the peasant population. The "procedure" of eliminating private property was a cornerstone of Marxism, however, the best way for Lenin & his Party to carry this out was clearly a serious problem. It was one thing to stage riots, print anti-government newspapers and call for radical changes, then it was to implement them. Especially so, when the Communist Party had no real experience in the art & practice of governing.

Certainly one crucial problem was the logistics of having the peasant farmers produce the crops & livestock needed to feed the industrial workers and still have enough left over to feed themselves.

This meant that the farmer population which played no major role in the Red Revolution, had to support a rather radical regime.

By the same token, without the proper transportation of food to the cities, whatever support Lenin's regime had with the factory workers would begin to be reduced.

The peasant population was the largest population group in Russia and millions of them were not even Russian, they were Ukrainians. The failure of the Bolshevicks to pay intense attention to Marx's key components for a successful revolution, was a formula for failure. This was because Marx envisioned a revolution in an industrial country such as England and Germany. There the workers had advanced their labor union establishment, had a more sophisticated political & economic mind set.

Russia, on the other hand did not qualify for a Marxist state because as it was an agriculturally based economy.

Lenin was then faced with a sticky problem. The peasant farmers required the products produced by Russian industry to produce the "hardware" needed to run farms. To have all this in balance was not going to be easy. It was an imperfect system before the two previous revolutions. The radical ideas of the second revolution by the Communist Party, was not at all in the mindset of most of the population, especially the farmer population.

By 1921, the Russian economy and Russian society was breaking down. Among the peasant revolts, discontent among the industrial workers and even a revolt in one section of the Red Navy, all were indicators that the revolution was in trouble, even in trouble to survive. The forced socialism, which Lenin called "war communism" needed to change.

Thus we come upon the NEP. The key component of the NEP was the granting to the peasantry the right to trade in the open market for their produce and for the equipment they needed to work their fields and raise their cattle. This was policy after they supplied the government with a certain amount of produce.

This decision meant a return to a profit goaled and free exchange economy to this vital part of the Russian economy.

The NEP also called for the retention of major industries to the government, however, all other business was permitted to operate in a private enterprise mode.

The NEP, no matter how it was propagandized, was a major setback towards the goal of communism. It also exposed the Communist leadership as falliable, inexperienced and prone to serious errors. For the time being the drastic loss of life among a cross section of Russian people, especially the peasantry, was abated.

The Bolsheviks took power from the Russian Provisional Government in November 1917 (October according to the Russian calendar). At that time the Provisional Government had already replaced Tsar Nicholas II and by November it was headed by Alexander Kerensky.

The Bolsheviks did not seize power from Tsar Nicholas II. The Provisional Government was set up in place of the Tsar's government to maintain order and run the country until a new constitution could be written.

That was Lenin's goal but after he died Stalin took over and killed many people because he wanted socialism.

Lenin did not change Russia into a communist state. He changed it into a socialist sate. This was his purpose all along regardless of the fact that Stalin turned everything into a totalitarian dictatorship.

According to Karl Marx, the capitalist society would become a socialist one first, then after generations of socialism it would evolve into communism. Communism is not something that can be imposed on any society, but socialism is. Lenin wanted to start that process so after his revolution he abolished all aspects of capitalism in favor of socialism. Although they called it socialism, it was a very poor imitation of what Karl Marx envisioned. In fact, even calling it an imitation of socialism is going too far.

1) He decided to launch an offensive against Germany in June 1917

2)The Kornilov Affair, Soldiers and officers would not fight for him (even though many wouldnt anyway after order Number 1). They felt he had betrayed Kornilov and that he would betray them as well. He also armed 25,000 bolsheviks in an attemp to arm the city against Kornilov. What a fool...

3)He underestimated the Bolshevik threat. By moving against them in october this gave them an excuse for seizing power in the name of the Soviet.

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Lenin was in general to his family and friends a very generous and kind person. When it came to leadership he struggled, but managed some very good things in history as well as bad things. But overall he was a good person, it wasn't him who started a war.

Georgy Lvov was the first post Tsarist leader after the abdication of Tsar Nicholas, from 23rd March to 7th July, 1917, when he resigned due to lack of support. He was arrested by the Bolsheviks later in the year, but escaped to France. Aleksander Kerensky was next from 21st July to 8th November, 1917, and was ousted by the Bolsheviks and a general lack of support. Vladimir Lenin was elected on 8th November, 1917, and served until forced to retire due to ill health in 1922.

Stalin is known to have had at least three children. His son Yakov (1907-1943) was the eldest, whom Stalin had with his first wife, Yekaterina Svanidze. Yakov went on to serve in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War (World War II), during which he was taken prisoner by Germany. The Germans tried to use Yakov as an incentive to entice Stalin to exchange prisoners between Russia and Germany, but Stalin infamously denied the offer to regain his son. Yakov apparently committed suicide during his imprisonment.

Stalin's next two children came from his marriage with Nadezhda Alliluyeva. His son Vasiliy (1921-1962) also served in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War. When his father died, Vasiliy fell into disgrace with the new government and was imprisoned until 1960 (though he was later placed under house arrest). He died of alcoholism in 1962.

Stalin's only daughter Svetlana (1926--) has caused quite a stir in her life. When she fell in love with a Jew more than twice her age, Stalin exiled her lover. She married another Jew to her father's reluctance, and after that marriage ended, she wed the son of Andrey Zhdanov (Stalin's culture watchdog), whom she shortly divorced. After her father's death, she sought political asylum in the United States, where she lives today.

Allegedly, Stalin had another son during his pre-Revolution exile in Siberia, but little is known about him.

Karl Marx was the first philosopher to develop the idea thoroughly, even though communism, as a concept, had existed since ancient times. Marx called one of his four epochs of history Asiatic. This was the earliest epoch and had examples of simple communism in the form of small tribes in which no one owned individual plots of land, everyone worked for the common good of the tribe and everyone partook of the produce of the tribe equally or as needed.

Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Treir, Germany.Marx was an editor of a radical newspaper and unilinear cultural evolution which treated all human societies. Vladimir Lenin was born on April 22, 1870 in the provincial city of Simbnsk on the Volger river. In his early life Lenin was taught by his parents because they were both teachers.

Vladimir Lenin's political beliefs have a foundation in Marxism. He carried that belief to overthrow the Russian Provisional government and establish the first phase of Communism, name the dictatorship of the Proletariat. He is not one of these, however, he and Marxist associates decide to rule with great power and work diligently to establish a true Marxist based government in the new Soviet Union.