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    When in power, revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, was forced to modify his ideals with an aim to appeal to the Russian public, fix the damaged society and economy, and stay in power. The Bolshevik government, led by Vladimir Lenin, was determined to achieve power in 1917 Russia due to the incompetence and ineptitude of the Provisional Government. The Russian people resented the lack of change, therefore in April 1917, Lenin disturbed the opposition to the Government by creating a set of promises and…

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    The Bolsheviks took over the government in Russia in October 1917 and became the dominant political power. Vladimir Lenin was the leader of The Bolshevik party. The Bolsheviks and their friends occupied government buildings and other locations in the Russian capital of Petrograd. Bolshevik Russia was later renamed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and was the world's first Marxist state. The Bolsheviks was represented in Animal Farm by all the animals that chased off Mr. Jones from his…

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    Russians demand to drop out of the war. But Czar Nicholas II disagreed and stayed in the war which made more complications with Russia which started the Revolution, 2.Identify or define: (a) Vladimir I. Lenin, (b) Joseph Stalin, (c) war communism, (d) New Economic Policy, (e) Five-Year Plans. Vladimir I. Lenin - Was a follower of Karl Marx. Believed in socialism instead of capitalism by violent revolutions. Made promises to give land to the peasants if they stuck by his…

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    Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov, born in Simbirsk in April 10, 1987, he was the third oldest, with five brothers and sisters. In 1901 while doing underground work of his party he started going by the name Lenin. After a couple revolutions, he rose to become a powerful dictator in Russia. After World War I, he seized power with the October Revolution. Even though he had strong ideas he was still willing to change his ideas if his country needed it. When Lenin was a child his parents encouraged in him…

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    is a good five years from this one. I think some might have been lost or destroyed through the years. However, due to the stories I’ve heard and history I’ve learned I can fill in on some of what happened in the years between. Since his last entry Lenin had seized hold of the now formed Soviet Union, and began building a magnificent country. In other news happening around the world during this time period: World War I has officially ended, however, I think that is written about, and the league…

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    For instance, Stalin, corresponding with Lenin remarks, proclaimed the state had a need for violence to implement control, but rather than lessening the intensity, he only gave more leisure for harsher, crueler violence. Defending his offensives, his violations became classified as purges, times…

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    Lenin And Populism

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    The revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin, led the Bolshevik Party for the Russian Revolution to achieve a socialist state. Lenin took several parts of the Marxism doctrine and added to it in order to make it more applicable to Russia. He believed in the dictatorship of the proletariat and the class struggle, however, an elite group would lead the revolution, instead of the masses. Along with Marxism, Lenin used other theories and practices to encourage the Revolution. Populism “influenced the tactics…

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    Stalin was the leader of the Communist party from 1922 he then rose to power in 1924 until his death in 1953. When the party overthrew the Tsar in 1917, Vladimir Lenin took over and started the long reign of dictatorship. When Lenin died, however, lots of people wanted the position. Stalin took advantage of this and tricked and murdered everyone that wanted it. This meant that he became the new dictator of the USSR. You could argue that Stalin…

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    repression under the Soviet regime. Beginning with the Decembrist Uprising in 1825, and continuing on to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Russia’s leaders consistently employed heinous methods for suppressing their suspicions of opposition. Both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, two key leaders under the Soviet Union, developed intense fears of any form of resistance, and attempted to alleviate these fears by directing secret police agencies to destroy hints of opposition, no matter how…

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    religious family, Stalin was a very intelligent child. The other children treated him with disrespect, and because of this, Joseph began a journey for purpose and dignity. Stalin first joined the Social Democratic Labour Party, then he was appointed by Lenin to Bolshevik Party Central Committee. In 1917 he was named Commissar of Nationalities after Bolshevik, then appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party in 1922 . He soon became the dictator of the USSR, and finally got the privilege…

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