Menshevik

“The fundamental reason why the old regime collapsed was the personality and weak leadership of the Tsar.” To what extent is this statement accurate? The sovereignty of Nicholas II led to the ultimate collapse and diminishment of autocratic rule in Russia. The statement, “The fundamental reason why the old regime collapsed was the personality and weak leadership of the Tsar,” is significantly accurate as demonstrated through the decisions and responses of the Tsar during and post many events…

advocates the establishment of a communist society, in which goods and property are universally shared. He became a leader in a group of radical Marxists known as the Bolsheviks (meaning “majority” in contrast to the other main group, known as the Mensheviks, or “minority”). Once Lenin began spouting revolutionary rhetoric, he was exiled from Russia to prevent him from causing unrest. During the Revolution of 1905, Lenin called for an uprising against the imperial government. After the October…

They naturally appealed him. Before the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks split, Joseph had gone underground. The police searched his room for him around the end of 1900 but could not find him. Joseph naturally turned Bolshevik. Joseph Stalin was married to Nadezhda Alliluyeva. She was a student in the…

When the Soviet Union officially dissolved in December, 1991, many Westerners, Soviet dissidents, and Russian citizens believed that the feared Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB) would be dismantled forever. Russian and Western observers viewed the toppling of the “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky statue in August 1991 as the symbolic end of the era of Soviet political police repression. Subsequently, Gorbachev appointed Vadim Bakatin to reform the KGB. But what constituted reform? In December…

Nicholas Romanov II’s Failures as a Leader Introduction For over three hundred years, Russia was ruled by the Romanov dynasty. In 1917, that monarchy ended with Nicholas II, the last tsar. Nicholas II’s father, Tsar Alexander III died in 1894 when Nicholas II was only twenty-six years old. Nicholas inherited the role as supreme autocrat of Russia, which contained one sixth of the world’s land mass and over a hundred and thirty million people (Nilsen). When Nicholas II’s reign started, millions…

defeat and occupied Berlin. 18. The February Revolution in Russia was led by a. Vladimir Lenin. b. Alexander Kerensky.* c. Grigory Kornilov. d. Leon Trotsky. e. Rosa Luxemburg. 19. Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the a. Bolsheviks.* b. Mensheviks. c. Social Revolutionaries. d. Provisional Government. e. Young Turks. 20. In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia a. won territories from the defeated Germans. b. gained considerable territory from Turkey. c. lost territories…