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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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Which of the soviet Socialist republics did Kaliningrad belong?
Kaliningrad was part of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. It is now part of the Russian Federation.
The March revolution of 1917 (also known as the February Revolution and the spring Revolution) occur in Russia during WW1. It all stared when 90 000 textile workers went on strike in Russia protesting about the shortage of fuel and bread. Many people joined and by the end of the week 400 000 people had joined the cause. Signs that said "Down with the Tsar" and "Down with the war" were displayed. The Tsar (or czar spelt both ways) had banned protesting so he sent out the military to shoot the protesters. Instead the army shot their officers and joined the cause. Since the Czar had lost his army he offerer his position to his brother who refused and since his brother wouldn't take position the Czar abdicated. Several members of the Duma were chosen to set up a provisional government (temporary). They stayed in power until the the Fall Revolution. As for the Czar and his family they were sent to house arrest, then excelled, and finally they were executed. Rumor has it that one of the Czar's children, Anastasia, escaped the death. *Note- Many people also believe that the revolution occurred because people doubted the Czar because he was friends with Rasputin, aka the Mad Monk. Rasputin was a drunk who slept around with many women. The Czar and his family only put up with Rasputin because they believed that he could heal the Czar's only son Alexi, who was a hemophiliac. The public never knew about Alexi's decease because it would be seen as a weakness and perhaps people would have killed him so that the dynasty would end.
Who was revolting in the Russian revolution?
In te February Revolution of 1917, the people of the city of Petrograd (St. Petersburg) spontaneously broke out into demonstrations against shortages of food. They were then joined by workers and soldiers who also had complaints about their conditions. These revolts spread to ther cities as well until Tsar Nicholas II became convinced he no longer had the power to restore order and that only his abdication would stop the revolt.
In the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik followers were the ones who revolted against the Provisional Government then in place. This revolution was more of a military coup by a small group of revolutionaries rather than the popular revolt the February Revolution had been.
Why did Vladimir Lenin kill people?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin killed 1.6 million people for the same reasons Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong and all the others like them kill people. Its because their evil, they don't care about others and they want to.
Did the Russians vote Stalin into office?
No, he was a very strong part of the military, and at that time everybody respected him and knew him. He basically just assumed his power.
What party did Alex Salmond lead?
Alex Salmond is the current leader of the Scottish National Party and is currently the First Minister of Scotland. Alex Salmond has led the party twice, once between 1990 and 2000, and since 2004 to present. Alex Salmond led the SNP to victory in May 2007, forming the first ever SNP government in the Scottish Parliament.
What was life like in Soviet Russia 1917-1991?
To address the question that was actually asked, unlike the other two responses, I can recommend three excellent books, Russia, the People and the Power by Robert G. Kaiser, The Russians by Hedrick Smith, and Behind the High Kremlin Walls by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova. Some other good ones include "Mig Pilot", that is by the pilot who flew his fighter to Japan in 1975, I forget his name, "Breaking With Moscow" by Arkady N. Schevchenko and anything by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.Michael Montagne
AnswerWell, apart from the 'purges' of dissidents by those evil few with power in their hands - and over the years that meant killings by the million - life for the common people meant that they were well educated and well cared-for, and always knew where their next meal was coming from, which should be all that matters.That is more than you can say for now, with our grab-as-grab-can society imposed on them via just one or two corrupt leaders now retired to fat lives abroad together with those with the riches which those 'leaders' permitted them to scoop from the rest during the few years since '91
Russia is now the ruins of what was a great able and cultured nation only a few years ago. The common people - the vast majority -now live in abject poverty, in a 'market economy', which means you need money to live, and in the Russian climate, which has to be experienced to be believed.
That shows the erosive power of finance in the hands of a few malicious amoral villains. And those are the ones who now rule'our' world.
That should make us think, and see exactly who they are who are now paying all our presidents to do what they want. - Shouldn't it?
AnswerI'm sure that the Soviet government tried their best to provide a comfortable, peaceful and stable life for its citizens. Whether or not they actually did is a different story. Only those who were unswervingly loyal to the Party and its principles reaped the most material benefits. Of course, Party personnel reaped the most, followed by military and police forces. At the bottom of the barrel was the "worker" all of the bureaucrats were claiming to represent. AnswerGreetings from Russia! (Siberia)Before 1991-93 we (Russians) could be shure in our future, we had guarantees of medical service and education for-free. Also we had normal life level. But we had not enough commodities and products.
After 8 years of anti-Russian "democracy" and wild/criminal capitalism Russian GNP became extremely lower than before that period. People became extremely poor in this 8 years. Economy was almost destroyed.
Now we have true democratically choosen pro-Russian government. And we grow rich and repair our economy.
P.S. Excuse me for my terrible English
AnswerIt is impossible to answer briefly to the question....First it was a cruel civil war and collapse of empire in the beginning, violence, blood, new hopes, -really hard times, after there came a period of modernization which was unseen before in the modern world's history - during a dozen of years ruined collapsed mostly agricultural country became one of the leaders in Europe..but people paid really tremendous price for that - terror, slavery of GULAG, starving villages, it is incredible that the nation was able to survive all that and was capable of real feat to save their country, what the Soviet people experienced in the 30s is almost nothing in comparison with terrors of the WWII or the Great Patriotic War as it is called in Russia and this nation showed tremendous strength and courage and won its War...Stalin was the most lucky tyran to have Russians under his power......sure there were traitors, there were about 1 million who joined Nazis Russian Liberation Army, some of them really thought that Russia should be saved from Stalin's tyrany, but if the Nazis won there were not be Russia any more...9th of May was a real triumph of soviet people, not of the criminal system that ruled them...and this country was ruined, devastated, lost millions of people - incredible, but it was the first to send a sattelite and human being in space - sure, there were lots of politics about that, but it was one more real triumph, the 60-x to my mind is the best time in the entire history of the USSR...main reason- people got much more freedom after the tyrany, after the 70s the country started slowly to slide to its collapse...corruption, decay of political elite, exhausting arms race with the US, fear of truth, time of inefficiency and incompetence...but collapse of the USSR just accelerated degradation in most of the former soviet republics, and this decay is not stopped yet...in the end of the 80s we had better health care sytem, better education, our science was on a higher level and the nation was less corrupted, simply people lived longer than now in RussiaHow many siblings did Vladimir Lenin have?
He was the third of 6 children.He had 5 brothers and sisters.
Who was the leader of the Bolshevik Party?
Vladimir I. Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik Party ever since its beginning at the Party Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in Brussels in 1903. He remained its leader till his death in 1924.
The leader of the Bolsheviks, was Vladimir Lenin, and co leader was Leon Trotsky. This changed dramatically upon the sudden death of Lenin in 1924.
Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Bolshevik Party and the one who organized the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. He is the first leader of the Soviet Union.
How do you explain stalin's rise to power?
I have tried to split this into two questions: How did Josef Stalin rise to power in the USSR and Why did Stalin rise to power in the USSR.
I shall answer How did Josef Stalin rise to power in the USSR.
In 1924, the leader of the USSR, Lenin died. Stalin held the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party. Leon Trotsky, a powerful Marxist was the Minister of War. Eventually the true Marxist Trotsky, was sent into exile by Stalin who had maneuvered himself into a powerful position within the rank and file of Party members.
This process began in 1921 when Stalin and four of his supporters gained control of the Party Control Commission. The Commission was in charge of, among other issues, making sure that Party members were not violating any Party decrees. By 1923 the Commission had grown to be a powerful force in the affairs of the Party.
After Lenin's death, Stalin created a mass enrollment of new Party members. These members were loyal to their sponsor Stalin.
Now with his large support, he as Party Secretary General, was able to keep in close contact with local communist parties. In this manner he was able to reward his followers and punish his enemies.
By 1927 Stalin had enough support to keep Communist dissenters out of Party politics and Stalin for lack of a better word was a dictator. His chief critic Trotsky was disposed of by sending him into exile.
Stalin waited until 1940 to have himself declared Premier of the USSR. He destroyed all opposition based on his early control of Party Control Commission. He used terror, secret arrests of Party members, fake trials, mass executions and forced labor camps for Communist dissidents. Stalin had kidnapped the Communist-Marxist revolution and was the all powerful leader of the USSR.
Why is Russia not communist anymore?
IN 1990,Mikhael Gorbhachev was sworn as Russia's President and he had an open mind,The Russian Government was extinguishing all their Nation's Economy in acheiving Military Power as large as America.People began to think of Life in Western Countries and through it they discovered their living standards by Communication Media and TV ,Mikhel Gorbhachev had many plans for the upliftment of the country and Made Russia a Democratic Country.
Who sent Lenin to russia to lead the revolution?
So far, the consensus is that it was one of the Warburg brothers. There were four, two in New York, and two in Germany. One of the New York Warburgs made the plans for the Federal Reserve Bank. And one of the New York Warburgs began the campaign in 1919 to raise money for the six million Jewish victims of World War 1. That's right. WW I. According to the New York Times, Jews were the real victims of this war. Six million of them. One of the German Warburgs during WW I was the head of German Intelligence; and it was his idea to send Lenin into Russia to wreck the country and take it out of WW I. I would love to know more details. It is amazing that no-one has studied the German archives to get to the bottom of this.
Name the group of Russian Marxists led by Lenin during the revolution in 1905?
Vladimir I. Lenin led the Bolshevik Party. At first it had been part of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, a Marxist political party, but it split off from it. In March 1918the Bolshevik Party renamed itself the Communist Party.
Vladimir Lenin successfully overthrew the Provisional Government of Russia. This was the government that in March of 1917 forced the Czar to step down from power. Lenin then successfully overthrew the Provisional government that was largely one of democratic leaders and democratic socialists. Lenin imposed a dictatorship of the Bolshevik Party.
Which leader is MOST closely associated with the end of communism within the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev. (Actually they had never achievedCommunism.)
What is the significance of the Bolsheviks and the Russians?
The Bolsheviks overthrew the government in a coup d'etat in the Bolshevik Revolution.
Why did Lenin view religion as a negative influence in the lives of common people?
Lenin is a follower of Karl Marx, who believed that organized religion was a tool by which the bourgeois upper class kept the lower class proletariat controlled. In Marx's own words religion was the opium of the people. In that sense, both Marx and Lenin saw religion just as an oppressor of the working class as the bourgeoisie itself. Another reason is that they saw religion as imposing upon the lower class a system of belief in that which is not verifiable by logic or the senses. This meant that whoever believes in religion is substituting superstition for reason and allowing others to dictate to the believer what to believe and what not to believe.
There has never been a Communist revolution in Russia, as that would mean the abolition of the wages system and establishment of a moneyless classless stateless society. The Bolshevik coup led to the establishment of state capitalism.
What did it mean to be a Knight in the Middle Ages?
Knights were men (and sometimes women) who could fight as heavy cavalry. They were trained over a long period of apprenticeship. When they were knighted, they usually received a manorial estate so they could provide for the horses, armor, weapons, and assistants they would need. In return for this, they had to provide military support for the king who knighted them. Their title made them a member of the nobility, of greater consequence than most other people, and their estates made them wealthy.
Were the Bolsheviks for communism?
No, the Bolshevik Revolution ended in socialism and a poor version of it as well. Communism as Karl Marx saw it could not be imposed on any country, but socialism could. The Russian government was socialist that was run by people who called themselves Communist.
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