Vladimir Lenin

Ethel & Julius Rosenberg were executed for espionage.

Three periods in the modern era witnessed the creation of vast empires, primarily colonial. Between the 15th century and the middle of the 18th, England, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain built empires in the Americas, India, and the East Indies. For almost a century thereafter, relative calm in empire building reigned as the result of a strong reaction against imperialism. Then the decades between the middle of the 19th century and World War I were again characterized by intense imperialistic policies.

No: Stalin was an authoritarian dictator. The system introduced by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917 was state capitalism. Communism involves the abolition of the wages system and establishment of a classless society.

From a painting I saw, they were colored blue.

Lenin was responsible for the deaths of 1.6 million but Stalin killed as many as twenty million.

The peasants lived a poor and tough life. Many of them were freed slaves, but their lives didn't improve much since slavery.

My understanding is that Germany wanted turmoil in Russia to ease their war burden and paid for a special train to take Lenin to Russia. Germany allowed Lenin to cross German territory in a diplomatically sealed train from Germany to Sweden, Finland to Russia.

Once in Russia, Lenin's willingness to lower his standards of behavior, his personal charisma and the unwillingness of the other socialist political parties and the Russian army to use violence allowed him and his Bolsheviks to gain more and more influence in the Soviet Councils, army garrisons and even other socialist political parties to seize power and remove his opponents.

Lenin gained the support of the workers and soldiers by promising an end to Russia's involvement in World War 1, a redistribution of land among the peasants and an end to shortages of food and other goods. The Provisional Government (PG) under Kerensky did not promise to end the war or redistribute land and could not end the shortages.

It became clear that the Provisional Government was going to fail, so Lenin and the Bolsheviks staged what amounted to a military coup, rather than a true revolution on October 25, 1917 (Julian calendar date). Lenin had created Military Revolutionary Committees within various army garrisons and not only neutralized them as a force the Provisional Government could count on to stay in power, but in many cases, a force the Bolsheviks used to take power from the PG.

Several other socialist political parties objected to the Bolshevik power grab, but they acquiesced feeling that it was better than risking civil war. They also felt the Bolsheviks would not be able to retain the power they had taken by force.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks Lenin's continued the use of violence to consolidate and hold his power, leading to the murder and starvation of millions of workers through his reign and Stalin's.

If I remember correctly, Raul Hilberg, the noted Holocaust expert estimated the number at 40-60 million. Hilberg knew exactly how many the Germans had killed; they kept records and he had been a researcher for the US Army, so he used the population numbers from 1920, the population numbers in 1946, the live birth rates and an expected death rate based on economic data available. The rest was a simple calculation.

I did not research this, attended Hilberg's lectures in 1973-1974 and cannot remember details from either of the Lenin biographies I read, but I wanted to answer anyway.

The first was the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1917, also known as the February Revolution. This deposed Tzar Nicholas II, but nobody really figured out who should run the country. So, there was a period of dual power, in which the in which the Provisional Government held state power and the national network of Soviets, led by socialists, had the allegiance of the lower-classes and the political left.

The second revolution, known as the October Revolution was when the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers' Soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government and brought about a massive change in the social structure of Russia, as well as paving the way for the USSR. There were tons of infamous riots and such that happened in Moscow and St. Petersburg, but there was also a huge movement in cities throughout the country, among national minorities throughout the empire, and in the rural areas, where peasants revolted, then seized and redistributed lan

Yes, Lenin did allow a limited amount of capitalism in his New Economic Policy. Lenin recognized that the Russian economy was more stagnant than it had been during the Tsarist regime. Agricultural output was down because of his "war communism" policy, which simply prompted peasant farmers to grow less produce and even destroy some crops and livestock. Manufactured goods were also in short supply. Lenin now faced the same shortages that prompted the February Revolution and the overthrow of the Tsar and later the October Revolution and the overthrow of the Provisional Government. He feared his own regime would be overthrown as well, so he re-introduced capitalism in the agricultural field as well as in small businesses in the industrial field. Ironic that Lenin, the communist, had to turn to capitalism in order to save the communist anti-capitalist system.

the leader was robespierrre

he is not a bad man but man of new centuary with new and blooming ideas

ask your teacher dont ask me or look somewhere else

Drop out of school it ain't worth it you wasting your time

Why don't you just look in the book? but he describes it as Miserable laborious and short page 6.

the party in which the Bolsheviks revolution started was from Lenin

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Yes.

The Cheka were established after the Revolution and were formed after the Bolsheviks declared the Red Terror in response to the White Terror. The Cheka were a sort of political police who would investigate the activities of suspected Tsarist supporters and fighters and arrest them and possibly execute them if they were found to indeed be Tsarist fighters or supporters. It is important to bear in mind that the supporters did not just think the Tsarists were good but they helped them in their war efforts against the Bolsheviks.

Because Kerensky was powerless, thus leaving the Bolsheviks under the direction of Trotsky to defend Petrograd. This made them appear to be the saviours

Shoot him.

The February Revolution in Russia in 1917 broke out spontaneously in Petrograd, Russia as a city wide protest demonstration and general strike. Things then spread to other cities as well and calmed down only when news of the Tsar's abdication was announced.

Petrograd had been St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad and is now St. Petersburg again.

It is a name sometimes used for Vladimiir Ilitch Ulyanov, founder of Soviet communism, etc. Zinoviev gave a speech entitled "Nicolai Lenin: HIs Life and Work" at the Pertograd Soviet on 9/6/1918; do an Internet search and you can get a PDF of it. But near as I can tell (quick skim) he is referred to as Vladimir Ilitch of Comrade Lenin throughout. Perhaps "Nicolai" is considered a translation of "Vladimir"

unrest in the Russian military and civilian population.

The first revolution in Russia in 1917 occurred in February according to the Julian calendar which was in effect within Russia at that time. In the western world, which used the Gregorian calendar, it occurred in March.