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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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Where was Lenin sent after being arrested in 1895?
Lenin was exiled to one of the more agreeable places in Siberia, a small town on the River Lena. At the time he was still Vladimir I. Ulyanov, but his time spent at the River Lena influenced him to adopt the name "Lenin."
That party congress was in 1903.
Why were many western nations against the October Revolution?
The western nations feared that after the October Revolution, Lenin and the Bolsheviks would get Russia out of World War I. The Tsar and even the Provisional Government after the Tsar abdicated wanted Russia in the war to fight Germany and the others of the Central Powers. The Bolsheviks had promised to end the war and the western nations fighting Germany were afraid Lenin would take Russia out of the war as he had promised many times. Germany smuggled Lenin into Russia just so he could cause revolutionary problems to disrupt the Russian war machine. After the October Revolution Lenin did just that, signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and making peace with the Central Powers. Now Germany could concentrate all it's troops on the West-front and was not caught in a two-front-war any more.
What date did the Texas Revolution begin?
October 2nd, 1835 the battle that started it all began at Gonzales when a group of Texans repel a group of Mexicans.
What other names is the city of St Petersburg in Russia called?
St. Petersburg was renamed Petrograd, then renamed Leningrad, then renamed St. Petersburg once again.
What did Nikolai Lenin have to do with the Russian Revolution?
Nikolai Lenin, also known as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was a leader of the Russian Revolution, and founded the Bolsheviks. Lenin was also the first head of the USSR. Lenin lived for the good of the future, and believed that Communism was the only way to save the future generations from the present.
There were two Russian Revolutions in 1917. Nikolai Lenin, properly known as Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, had virtually nothing to do with the February Revolution of 1917. It occurred without his knowledge while he was living in exile in Switzerland.
He returned to Russia on April 3, 1917 and immediately began agitating against the new Provisional Government that had been set up when the Tsar abdicated. His Bolsheviks did everything they could to disrupt and undercut the Provisional Government as well as to organize resistance against it. Eventually he lead the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution.
What issue concerned Vladimir Lenin at the Tenth Party Congress of 1921?
It could be expected that the Bolshevik Party would run into problems with both wings of the Marxist factions involved with the October Revolution. Lenin could not afford to have his policies questioned or altered by the revolutionary movement. He was therefore concerned with two main obstacles. One was the former Provisional government leaders that Lenin had not already imprisoned or executed. The even more dangerous opposition came for avid Marxists in the Bolshevik Party or other left wing extremists. Lenin took the opportunity of the Tenth Party Congress of 1921 to declare any forms of democracy held by people within the revolutionary movement to be expelled from the Bolshevik Party. By 1921, anyone not considered to be a loyalist to Lenin was in trouble. All factionalism within the Soviet Union was ended.
In later years, after Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin would cite Lenin's policies as Stalin's basis to curb any dissent within the Communist Party. Generally speaking, Stalin's method of "curbing" was either prison or execution.
Which soviet leader stayed in power longer than the other leaders?
Joseph Stalin, who was in power from 1924 until his death in 1953, was the soviet leader who stayed in power the longest.
Yes, Lenin was considered to be modest. Particularly with his claims about Russia. His main purpose was to improve the conditions for the working man.
Why was Russia unsuccessful in its attempt to make Afhganistan part of the Soviet Union?
Because it never actually tried to make it a part of the USSR.
The official position was that the Soviet contingent was there to assist the Afghan government at their request. Realistically, they were trying to shore up a regime friendly to the Soviet state in order to have some control over the place, but that is a far cry from outright annexation.
The Soviet military effort had many of the same problems that everyone else from Alexander the Great to Mongols to the British Empire had and which US is having today. Afghanistan is a mountainous area with few roads. It is populated by very strong willed people who put up great resistance and use the terrain to their advantage. Supply lines are long and vulnerable to guerrilla attacks.
Also, the resistance had help from the CIA in the form of money and weapons. Ironically, much of that weaponry is probably being used against US and other coalition forces today.
Persia became an empire under the leadership of?
The Persian Empire was under the control of Cyrus II after 546 B.C. the empire stretch from modern southern Asia, to the middle east (Iran, Iraq, ect.) before being capture by Alender the Great.
What is the infamous site of the execution of Czar Nicholas and his family in 1918?
The site is the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg.
What were serfs beofor revolution of 1917?
Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, serfs were agricultural laborers who were bound to the land and under the control of landowners, often working under harsh conditions with limited rights. They were essentially considered part of the estate they worked on, with their lives heavily regulated by their lords. Although the Emancipation Reform of 1861 granted them legal freedom, many serfs still faced significant economic hardships and social restrictions, leading to widespread discontent that contributed to the revolutionary fervor.
How did Stalin defeat trosky after Lenin's death?
In 1940, a Spanish-born Soviet agent, Ramon Mercader, murdered Trotsky at his home in Mexico City.
He plunged an ice pick into his head, Trotsky screamed the most terrible scream and died a day later. Ramon Mercader got a beating from Trotskys staff but Trotsky sparred him as he said he now had a story to tell. :0
Who executed tsar and his family in 1918?
Almost certainly Vladimir Lenin.
Mikhail Kudrin, as part of a detail of men under the command of Yakov Yurovsky, is generally believed to have fired the shot that actually killed Tsar Nicholas II. Yurovsky fired the first shot after reading the Tsar his death sentence. Then Kudrin, Petr Ermakov and Pavel Medvedev, at the very least, also shot him even though they had been assigned other family members to shoot.
Lenin had given his anonymous approval after the local Cheka demanded the execution and the Czechoslovak Legion in the civil war was close to capturing Ekaterinberg and the Tsar. Yakov Sverdlov is believed to have set everything up.
Is Leonardo DiCaprio the grandson of Vladimir Lenin?
No, he is not. Lenin had no children of his own.
Who became leader of Russia after the March 1917 Revolution?
Prince Georgy Lvov became the immediate leader of Russia as head of the Provisional Government after the Czar was overthrown. Three months later Alexander Kerensky took over. About three months after that the Bolsheviks overthrew Kerensky and the Provisional Government and Vladimir Lenin became the leader of Russia.
Did Lenin support Joseph Stalin as his successor?
No, Lenin actually opposed Stalin as his successor even to the extent of writing several notes (later to become known as Lenin's Testament" to the Central Committee of the Communist Party advising that a way be found to replace Stalin with someone who had "...greater tolerance, greater loyalty, greater courtesy, and consideration to comrades, less capriciousness, etc."
Lenin's personal choice was Leon Trotsky.
What is the central message in Old Major's speech in the barn?
Old Major's speech was saying that Humans were treating all the animals poorly and that animals needed to retaliate. Major didn't want the humans to be in control forever and wanted all animals to be free from abuse. He taught them a song that soon became somewhat of an anthem for the animals. Major's speech was the starting point for the rebellion that would follow.
