Petrograd Soviet

On October 1917, the Bolshevik party seized control over the Winter Palace in Petrograd without firing a single shot. They had been in search of this opportunity for several years. As the opportunity arose, the Bolshevik party arose with the power of giving in to the needs of the people by taking advantage of the provisional government. The Bolsheviks ability to take advantage of the provisional government enable them to take control over Russia. Although, the Bolshevik party was able to take…

As the military followed orders, they betrayed their original government with this new government. The soldiers switched to the Soviet Petrograd because they felt there was more equalities and it would be the right choice to do. Just like Vladimir, Jack made a tribe that was against Ralph’s group. Jack’s tribe was a savagery group that would hunt, while Ralph was a civilization that wanted…

Ulanov on April 10th, 1870 in Simbirsk, which was later renamed Ulyanovsk in his honor. He was a communist philosopher founder of the Soviet Republic,…

red army also known as the new Bolshevik regime which killed over millions of their own citizens. The red army did it one bullet at a time. Killing their own blood at a blink of an eye. All these events lead into the rise of the communist party the Soviet…

of leaders to lead them, and communism needs to take place all around the world.11 Then they create a whole new system of government. Marxism-Leninism is the ideas of Lenin and Karl Marx together.4 This radical theory had a lot of impact to Russia/ Soviet Union. It changed a lot of views and basically helped start communism in my opinion. Because of his radical views he and his other conspirators was arrested for a year then he was exiled to Siberia for three…

There is no doubt that the Bolshevik Revolution was in many ways influenced by World War I. Ronald Suny gives many examples of this in his book The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor State. Even so, Suny takes the stance that the war ultimately was responsible for hindering the Revolution because of the various events that it brought about in its path. At the start of their reign, Bolshevik’s used their power to hinder and overwhelm their rivals. Eventually they began to…

How was life as a Bolshevik? George Orwell thought the Bolshevik played a big part in Russian History therefore including them in the book Animal Farm. In George Orwell book Animal Farm it best explains to readers what the Bolshevik were for and about. The Bolsheviks were members of a Russian Social- Democratic Workers Party led by Lenin. He eventually had control over the Russian Government and became dominant political power. The group originally came about at the party’s second congress in…

As proved by Source ‘B’ Lenin had support of ‘fifteen out of twenty-five committee members.’ Trotsky was also a brilliant leader of the Petrograd Soviets, and combined with Lenin this created an aura of superiority for the party and also created more public support. Although the Bolsheviks didn’t have a lot of public support they had much more than the Provisional Government because even if people…

instead of following a determined order of events leading towards revolution, it was in fact the modernization of Russia directly contradicting the tsarist ideology, which contributed to the inevitability of the revolution. Yet, while the tradition soviet view suggests that this inevitable revolution was part of a process, which would have ultimately led to Bolshevikian rule, the Bolsheviks, in fact, hijacked an evolving democratic revolution led by the Mensheviks, which…

1. How did World War One lead to a revolution in Russia? WWI led to the revolution in Russia because the tsarist government was unprepared for the problems the war magnified. Although problem persisted in Russia, such as ill-led and ill-armed armies, the war proved that Russia was technological behind when compared to other major world powers. As a result, the tsar’s control over the armed forces was seen as inefficient due to the death of 2 million soldiers and the wounded or captured 4 to 6…