October Crisis

Plan of Investigation: Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin had spent over a decade as a chief of the Bolshevik operatives. His responsibilities eventually led to him becoming a key figure in Lenin’s inner circle. During the Russian civil war, Stalin began acquiring connections with military leaders, such as generals in the Red Army. After the Bolsheviks won the civil war, they began expanding their revolution into other parts of Europe. Stalin’s actions during this revolution were…

In the year 1917, multiple revolutions took place including the october revolution and the february revolution. The cause for these revolutions is to end imperial rule from other interfering countries. The reason why the russian revolution started was because people were unhappy with their king, Nicholas 2 who believed in government corruption. Once the Russian Revolution started people started to gain more support and more benefits from the government. One reason why the russian revolution of…

“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” (Vladimir Lenin) Without the influence of Vladimir Lenin, Russia would find itself with little motivation to revolt. For his ideology alone can be considered the overarching backbone of the Russian Revolution. Lenin was born into a wealthy family on the 22nd of April, 1870. Growing up in Russia, he would later delve into an official career, becoming an extreme political theorist devoted to leading the Bolshevik party into Russian power. He saw his…

March Revolution caused the Bolsheviks to become even more determined to seize power, a feeling heightened by the return of Vladimir Lenin from exile in April. Led by Lenin, the Bolshevik Party seized control of Russia in November 1917, known as the October Revolution. The party’s slogan, “Peace, Land, Bread”, held great appeal to the citizens and peasants of Russia. The main goals of the party stressed the importance of power in the hands of the soviet, or the workers and peasants of the…

Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas II at the time. He believed in a system of government whereby one person has absolute power, or autocracy. Russia was becoming industrialized very rapidly, which brought about low paying positions and a massive rate of unemployment. Nicholas II was very poor at managing important aspects of society such as politics and the military. World War I was not playing out the way the Russians had intended and the general population blamed Nicholas II because of it. The…

the Bolshevik Party and the people were led to victory by the vanguard of the Revolution. A Soviet historian would subsequently put an emphasis on Lenin’s unquestionable brilliance in leadership, which was the ultimate reason for the success of the October Revolution. As Trotsky himself stated, the February Revolution was merely a ’’dress rehearsal’’ for the final triumph of the Great proletariat Revolution. Lenin’s tight and disciplined organization of the party was reinforced by the radical…

As World War 1 goes to the end, Russia gets to an informal situation. The leader of Russia who was Tsar was ruling the country in a wrong way. After the corruption of Tsar, Lenin who is part of the Bolsheviks comes up and rules the country. He comes up with a government that will give land and takes care of the country. As a result, Lenin became a leader who made Russia a stable country. Lenin’s government was overall more different than Tsar’s government for many important reasons. The main…

Dr. Zhivago On September 5, 1958 the romantic novel “Dr. Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak was published in the U.S. The book had been banned in the Soviet Union but still won the Nobel Prize for Literature that same year. Boris Pasternak was born in Russia in 1890 and by the time the Russian Revolution broke out he had become a well-known avant-garde poet. His work was frowned upon during the 1920s and 1930s when under the communist regime Joseph Stalin put strict censorship on Russian art and…

The chief cause of the Russian Revolution was Czar Nicholas II’s inability to run the government properly. There were plenty of circumstances that brought about the Russian Revolution. A few examples would be the bad economy, corruption within the government, and the Czar doing whatever suits himself (“Russian Revolution” History.com). With theses events, there was a loss in morale in citizens all across Russia. The citizens also lost hope in the government and the Czar. These events lead to an…

Dialectical Montage as a Vehicle for Political Messaging Sergei Eisenstein expertly uses dialectical montage to demonstrate the plight of Russians in the midst of the revolution in his silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925). Specifically in the massacre on the Odessa Steps scene, montage editing helps convey exaggerated feelings of fear and helplessness in the context of the political state in Russia; the famous and fictitious scene posits political unrest and terror associated with the…