Nicholas II of Russia

Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were the two contenders to replace linen after his death in 1924. While the two opposed each other and were basically the complete opposite of one another, Stalin declares himself as dictator and has Trotsky exiled from Russia and later assassinated. Stalin gains control of the Communist Party and gradually reverses the principles of Lenin and transforms the Soviet Union into a government very similar to…

Russian Revolution: Took place within a year, 1917 Caused by WWI pressures; exploited people, wartime shortages, workers, men, women protested and expressed outrage at the upper class In February 1917, Tsar Nicholas II lost all support, ending the Romanov Dynasty Trade unions formed in Moscow and St. Petersburg, grassroots, workers and stuff First the Provisional Gov. came to power, and it led to another segue for radical groups (Bolsheviks) Chinese Revolution:…

gulags between 1936 and '38. Perhaps the Soviet psyche suffered just as much damage, as an entire nation and its attendant culture sank into a deep-seated paranoia and a frightened submission to the state, the effects of which are still being felt in Russia today. This was, not coincidentally, the era when Stalin's "cult of personality" rose to overwhelming prominence in the Soviet Union, as history was rewritten to make him the hero of every circumstance, his writings were handed out to…

A man named Tsar Nicholas II focused on the army and bureaucracy in order to maintain his regime. Once World War I started it made Russia’s problems much more noticeable and these problems challenged the tsarist government. Tsar had qualities of a leader and that really promoted…

Q6: I think the one thing that was mainly different about the South American Revolution and the Mexican Revolution was that in the South American Revolution, the peninsulares and the Creoles were the leaders in the army for South America. In the Spanish Revolution, the lower class people were the leaders in the armies. In the Spanish government they had different social classes. At the top of the Spanish-American government and Society where the peninsulares who are people that had been…

literary device Orwell employs in Animal Farm is his use of allegory to characterise different parties of the Russian Revolution. For example, the tyrannic Mr. Jones can be seen as an allegory for Tsar Nicholas II, the overthrown…

The end of the Revolution Nicholas II becomes exceptionally unpopular to all. He becomes poor, famine and comes down from his position. Russia becomes the first country was centralised by a socialist government. Stalin was in power until his death in 1953, due to him many had died when he was the ruler. The farm name changes once again…

Several sources speak of his inability to continue in school. The main reason was that he couldn 't afford attending the school. He actually challenged the political views of the Tsar Nicholas II. He decided he was not going to come home. He made his home in Toflis, where he dedicated himself to the revolutionary movement. He began tutoring and worked as a clerk in the Observatory. He became a part of the asocial Democratic Part in 1901…

Animal Farm Responses 1. The ideas that Old Major advocated in his plan to initiate a revolution, which in turn would favor all the animals, indeed parallel those of the origins of socialism. Through Old Major’s words, he reveals the miserable animal exploitation and cruel workings that the human species had created for their own benefit; “The life of an animal is misery and slavery” (Orwell 28). Similarly to the notable socialist, Karl Marx, who argued that exploited workers would unite to…

WORLD WAR II 6.2 I. Before the war A. Italy 1. Benito Mussolini was the leader of the fascist group in Italy. 2. Fascism is a revolt against democratic values. 3. This was the world’s first totalitarian dictatorship. B. Germany 1. The Treaty of Versailles (which was instituted following World War I) placed harsh conditions on Germany to stop them from rising up in war again. 2. Desperation and starvation caused many problems among the German people. 3. Adolf Hitler led the people with promises…