Menshevik

supplies being dedicated towards the war effort there was a shortage in food and the people starved and grew angry with the Tsar. The Duma would not help the people’s concern and as such they began to support the revolutionary parties such as the Mensheviks, Bolsheviks and Social Revolutionaries. As the war effort continued most of the people in Russia were calling for peace but the Tsar would not leave the war so they grew ready to revolt against the crown. In February 1917 the people of Russia…

The Russian Communist Party from 1921 despite having no titular leader held Lenin up as the sole party head having emerged from the civil war as the controlling power of the Russian empire. Following Lenin’s death in 1924 a six year struggle for power followed, Lenin having left no real guidance as to who should succeed him as leader. Stalin’s rise to power, in 1924 was far from inevitable as he was one of six politburo members and had only been appointed as General Secretary, viewed by…

originally wanted a class war that led to a society where all property is publicly owned and each person’s work is paid according to their abilities. In Russia two groups formed, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks had an extensive following from middle class working farmers, and the Mensheviks worked with Vladimir Lenin to form a Socialist Democrat party. In India nationalism was tested when Britain controlled the country and gaining independence was their common goal. Mohandas…

country were becoming dissatisfied with the Czar and the government. The end goal of the revolution was to be socialism. However, Congress split into two parties: the Bolsheviks (the majority) and the Mensheviks (the minority). The main disagreements revolved around party membership, with the Mensheviks arguing for a broad-based membership resulting in greater support, and the Bolsheviks, who sought only workers dedicated to the cause. However, the parties abandoned their differences in order to…

movements were all comprised of upper or middle class intellectuals who found it very hard to reach out across the class divide and influence the workers whose way of life was drastically different to there own. To add to this the SRs, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were but no means mass membership organisations each had around 40,000 members apiece which reflected a tiny proportion of the whole population. Another reason they posed limited threat to the tsar is only around 21 per cent of Russians…

On December eighteenth 1879 in Gori, Georgia, a small peasant village in Russia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (more commonly known as Joseph Stalin) was born into a large family. Stalin had two brothers, Georgy Jughashvili, born one year before Stalin, and Mikhail Jughashvili, born three years before Stalin. However, none of Stalin's siblings survived through infancy. Stalin's father, Besarion Jughashvili, was a cobbler though later became an alcoholic and later becoming a vagrant.…

punish the opposites was to get them out of the country or hang them. During Tsar's government, there were three particular groups that were opposite Tsar. The ‘Cadets’ who were the middle-class people, Socialist Revolutionaries, and Bolsheviks Mensheviks which were the Social Democratic Party. They were big and unstoppable so Tsar made a secret police called ‘Okhrana’. They were the spies who murdered and exiled the oppositions. A few years later, revolution finally happened and the Winter…

How is Bolshevik success in October 1917 best explained? Lucas Abeledo, 2u History Bolshevik success was owed to a large amount of different factors. However, the revolution is largely seen and explained in different ways. This essay will establish an appropriate way for the revolution to be explained through the analysis of the events leading up to the revolution, and its following events. Origin of the Bolshevik party and their purpose The formation of the Bolshevik party came about when…

diplomatic systems as flawed and proposed that the Bolshevik ideology would appeal to the evolving political climate, which increasingly considered the interests of the working class. This source provides insight into the schism between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions and the formation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. However, by nature of being a primary source, it solely provides one biased perspective on the issue of socioeconomic disparities in Eastern Europe…

How have perceptions of communism in Russian society changed over time? What were the factors leading to these changes? Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist, who published the Communist Manifesto in 1848. He was an influential writer and in his writing he conveys the idea of communism and how the proletariat will ultimately gain political power. That the abolition of private property will result in a society with no classes, hence no class antagonism. Marx suggests that having the…