Nicholas II of Russia

is to help you understand what Vladimir Lenin did for Russia and what he did for the outside countries during and after World War I. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born on April 10 (April 22 in New Style), 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia. Simbirsk was later named Ulyanovsk in his honor. He got the last name “Lenin,” by working in an underground party.1 His father, Ilia Nikolaevich Ulyanov, was a high official in the city’s educational…

governments took advantage of widespread poverty and famine to advance their agenda. In Russia, with food and oil in mass shortage due to the failing war effort,…

city carrying religious relics. The protest turned violent when the “police chief” was not able to stop the protestors so he turned to more violent and repressive measures. His unnecessary and extreme actions sparked other riots and protests within Russia. The Russian Revolution is broken down into two main rebellions. The February Revolution, in which Bloody Sunday occurred, and the Bolshevik Revolution. The results of the February Revolution only lasted a few months before the Bolshevik party…

dissatisfaction with the czar. Czar Nicholas II was overthrown by his subjects when he decided to enter World War I, despite Russia being unprepared to fight its powerful and industrialized enemies. Communist leaders within Russia soon started to gain more control. A similar event occurred in China in 1911, when revolutionaries overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Communism began to spread throughout China causing many problems. The rise of the Communist party in nations such as Russia and China also…

churches, universities, and political parties,” (McConnell). Four days after the attack, the U.S Senate voted for the Declaration of War against Japan with a 388-1 vote. The war began to favor the Allied Powers after the intervention of the U.S, and as Russia after German forced failed to invade Stalingrad. The victories of the battles of Stalingrad, D-Day, and the Midway Islands over the Axis Powers, and these marked the fall of the Axis Powers. On May 8, 1945 marks the victory in Europe with…

allied with other Great Powers, the resurgent France had very high potential to become a threat to Germany and this made Bismarck aim his foreign policy at the need to keep France isolated. To do this Bismarck ensured he was on good terms with with Russia, for that would prevent a two fronted war from the both of them. Instead of making things more peaceful, this did just the opposite. The complications arose when Bismarck created the Three Emperors’ League in 1873 including Germany, Austria,…

back the farm, the animals do amazing things that were learned from Julius Caesar’s Campaigns. The Civil war of Russia and Animal Farm both lead to the creation of a new society that is thought to be better than the old one. The Civil War has shaped history in Russia because it changed their system of government and economy. The “…Russian Civil War took place following…

The atomic bomb was accredited with the end of World War II but that was not the only thing the atomic bomb should be recognized for. Many argue that the destruction caused by the atomic bomb was unjustifiable due to the sheer loss of life. But the use of the atomic bombs on Japan was justified as it shut the Soviet Union out of Japan and created nuclear deterrence that led to a relatively peaceful era. The relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were troubled since the Soviet…

the multipolar balance of power, we will examine two more focused theories born of realist principles, one which finds the root of the conflict in an Anglo-German battle for dominance, the other which points instead to the weakened Eastern powers of Russia and Austria-Hungary. The Nationalism Theory for the First World War centers around the principles that a state’s foreign policy is a reflection of its political culture and the perceptions of its population. Both of these assertions are…

revolution. Fitzpatrick (2001) continues to state that both Lenin and Trotsky ultimately, defended the use of terror and violence as an essential part of dictatorship on the part of the proletariat. In the words of Trotsky, socialism was unachievable in Russia in the absence of terror and violence of some kind (Fitzpatrick, 2001). Similarly, Lenin, too, decreed that it was treasonous to criticize the Bolshevik party and the Red Guards because this impeded the struggle for the attainment of…