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Leon Trotsky RESPONSIBILITIES/IDEOLOGIES/CONTRIBUTION Leon Trotsky’s responsibilities varied during his lifetime as he assumed many different positions in the different factions of the Revolution. Trotsky became a Social Democrat in 1903, resulting in his joining of the Mensheviks at the Second Part Congress. He would split with them not long after. In 1905 Trotsky become the chairman of the St Petersburg Soviet, which would later be raided resulting in exile. Trotsky would then return to Russia in May 1917, only to join the Bolsheviks, the enemy of his former allegiance. Trotsky would be appointed to Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet by Kerensky in October of the same year. In November Trotsky became the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs,…

its protest against the Russian government as well as the political, social and economic discontent. The provisional government was led by Alexander Kerensky, who refused to give land to the peasants. As the Bolshevik party opposed to allowing the peasants to obtain land, they only became more and more popular. Throughout the discontent, the famous event known as the ‘Bloody Sunday,’ imperial guards shot and killed the several protesters of St. Petersburg and eventually attracted more people to…

ideology, is a possible explanation for the events in 1917, the historiographical position which best explains the inevitability of the Russian revolution is the modernization theory, popularized by George Kennan. This argues that instead of following a determined order of events leading towards revolution, it was in fact the modernization of Russia directly contradicting the tsarist ideology, which contributed to the inevitability of the revolution. Yet, while the tradition soviet view suggests…

there are some people that don't like him so the Dumas are on and off for years. In February there was a revolution against Tsar but it was unsuccessful. Also, some people know this event as the March Revolution because it happened around late February and early March. After the February (March) Revolution this is when The Bolsheviks were formed. It may have taken some time but after a while The Bolsheviks finally formed for the minority, even though Bolsheviks means majority. Around this time…

The first revolution in Russia occurred in 1905 when Russia was defeated by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War. This defeat engendered upheaval at home and Russian citizens began to express their discontent over the country’s political structure and called for reform. The situation further worsened and even though the emperor of Russia issued his October Manifesto promising to elect a Duma (parliament) with real legislative power, Lenin was far from satisfied. In fact, his frustrations extended to…

effect on Russia society was limited cultural diversity (because of ban on practicing non-traditional Russian customs). The Russians also did not trust of the government. 2) Why did industrialization cause discontent among the people of Russia? Industrialization lead to discontent unhappiness among the citizens of Russia because factories generated new difficulties, for example, exhausting hours, disgusting working environments, extremely low pay, and child labor. Trade unions were banned.…

parties, notably the Kadets, the Bolosheviks, Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. This also prompted the Kadets, who wanted a constitutional democracy, to rally together and eventually pressure Nicholas II into abdicating in February 1917. Unfortunately for Russia, Nicholas II’s abdication left Russia without a leader. Enter the Provisional Government, created and headed by multiple political parties like the Kadets (and later more importantly Kerensky), who took reign over Russia until a…

George Orwell thought the Bolshevik played a big part in Russian History therefore including them in the book Animal Farm. In George Orwell book Animal Farm it best explains to readers what the Bolshevik were for and about. The Bolsheviks were members of a Russian Social- Democratic Workers Party led by Lenin. He eventually had control over the Russian Government and became dominant political power. The group originally came about at the party’s second congress in 1903 when Lenin’s group made…

social institution as it has no official doctrine or manifesto for such a link to be codified into its ideological fiber. The implication of this fact in regards to this discussion lies in the fact that because Communism is well-defined and specifically lists what elements are and are not present, there are many variations of Communism that may be extremely different from one another despite similar ideological roots. Communism was first introduced by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in their…

White and Red Armies: The white and red armies were the titles given to the two sides of the Russian revolution in October of 1917. The white army referred the provisional government that had been established in the place of the recently abdicated czar. The white army received support from states in Western Europe and from the United states. Pro-revolutionary forces, the Bolshevik party, were called the red army. The struggle for power ended in the red army’s victory and the elimination of the…