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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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The Mensheviks lost because they lacked the leadership of Lenin and were less radical in using force.
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What was the attitude of the Bolshevik Party regarding the inequalities of wealth in Czarist Russia?
The prerevolutionary Bolshevik Party's attitude toward the inequalities of wealth was a policy of uncertain. Lenin took what he believed to be the correct Marxist view that during the early stages of the creation of a socialist state, it would take time for inequalities in wealth and power to dissolve. This made perfect sense to Lenin. The far left members of the Party wanted a changeover as fast as possible and the more moderate members of the Party believed a slower evolution would be "smoother" and avoid violence that would cause lasting harm among the peoples of Russia.
How many people were born in Russia from February 1 to February 13 in 1918?
None, because those dates never existed in Russia. Russia had been on the Julian Calendar, which was thirteen days behind the rest of the world which was on the more accurate Gregorian Calendar. By order of Vladimir Lenin, Russia switched to the Gregorian Calendar by decreeing that the day after January 31, 1918 would be February 14, 1918 thereby skipping completely over February 1 to February 13, 1918.
What discovery influenced the decision to embalm and preserve Lenin's body?
The mummified remains of the Boy Pharaoh Tutankhamen, which had been found in 1922, at least partly influenced the decision to embalm Lenin's body.
To many Russians, especially Bolshevik/Communists, Lenin was revered. The idea that his body could be preserved for hundreds of years appealed to many but not all of his followers, even though Lenin himself wanted to be buried in Petrograd beside his mother's grave. The idea of embalming was criticized by many, including Leon Trotsky, who said it was akin to creating relics.
Marxism: From the ideas of Karl Marx that became influential in Europe in the late 1800s. Believed workers would eventually revolt, seize control of the factories, and overthrow the government.
What Russian leader was returned to Russia by Germany to end Russia's involvement in WW1?
Vladimir I. Lenin was transported from Switzerland to Russia in order to put him in a position to stir up unrest and opposition to the war or even to create a revolution to change the government that would end Russia's hostilities with Germany in World War I.
What did the Bolshevik believe in?
'what's yours is mine'.
The Bolsheviks believed in a strong central hierarchy with full adherence to a central committee, a style of leadership called "democratic centralism." Lenin and others were ready to push their ideas in 1917, and the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II provided them the opportunity. While the Mensheviks wanted to follow the protype Marxist plan of an intermittant liberal capitalism before socialism, Lenin did not think this was necessary. His slogan of "Bread, Peace and Land" was used to counter the current provisional government in hopes of bringing the peasant and working classes in support of the Bolsheviks. It worked and during this time, several other notable leaders joined: Iosif Stalin and Trotsky. The Kerensky provisional government reciprocated by ordering the arrest of top Bolshevik leaders. Lenin was forced to go into hiding and during this time, he wrote "State and Revolution" about his ideas of a socialist government. The repression was lifted only when General Kornilov attempted to attack Petrograd. The Bolsheviks enlisted 25,000 militia men to counter them and eventually a compromise was reached with Kornilov being taken into custody.
A dual power occurred for a while. The legislature and provisional governments were under Kerensky and the Mensheviks while the workers and soldiers were under the Bolsheviks. Lenin along with most Bolsheviks simply wanted an insurrection but Kerensky preempted them on October 22 by ordering the arrest of their Military Revolutionary Council, banning their newspaper and cutting their telephone wires. On October 24, the Bolshevik Red Guard was sent to occupy important locations in the city as well as the Winter Palace which housed the Provisional Government. Power was handed over on October 26 to the "Soviet Council of People's Commissars" with Lenin as chairman, Trotsky as commissar of the Red Army and minister of foreign affairs (odd that the head of the army is the minister of foreign affairs…talk about diplomacy…). It was later renamed as "All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)" in 1918.
Who initiated strikes in March of 1917 in Russia and why?
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Why Lenin condemned second international?
Lenin was surprised that the revisionism of the 2nd International became a reality. He had joined other orthodox Marxists within the 2nd International in their fight against revisionism.
The movement was in a state of flux or to some a state of confusion. He had both a long term view as well as a short term view. It should be noted that none of the European Marxists had any real power. The 2nd International was pure speculation.
Lenin was attracted to the optimism of Marx who saw his ideas as a discovery of the natural order of things that in time would bring about the fruition of his unorthodox ideas. Marx and Engels were much to close to the industrial age to see that they would have never predicted it if they were born a century earlier.
Lenin also as did other Marxists see what they wanted to see. Lenin's other view was more realistic. He could see that the smooth transition into a revolutionary mode was not anywhere to be seen. The inevitability of a Marxist world was in doubt ( here we see the beginning of Lenin's future philosophy that if the people did not fall into line he would force it down their throats )
Lenin believed that the leaders of the European Marxist movement sold out to the bourgeoisie. Lenin hoped and maybe even expected that social democratic leaders and the workers would declare themselves disinterested in the war and be unwilling to shoot at their proletarians across the trenches. The reality was that the majority of the social democrats all supported the war, voted where they had some power to vote for war expenditures and declared their loyalty to their governments.
Lenin's hope (unreal as it was ) was that the working men's armies would turn their bayonets against their own governments and the ruling classes.
This reminds me of how Romans would fight other Romans in their civil wars. Lenin was not a student of history, or at least not a good one. If the Romans did not interest him he only had to look at the US Civil War.
This embittered Lenin who had of course endorsed the 2nd International. That is until it collapsed due to WW1.
His idea that the imperialist war would turn into civil wars was unrealistic. Not to be deterred that Marxism was flawed he was convinced that the soldiers were betrayed by the moderation of European Marxist leaders. Thus he saw that revolution needed "help" by dedicated Marxists like himself. Apparently the workers did not understand what was good for themselves. This would be fixed by people like himself.
