Vladimir Lenin

countries and they have worked hard to maintain that power. They both had huge impacts on the world and on Cuba and Russia. Joseph Stalin rose to power after the death of Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky was the natural successor of Lenin but after a complex power struggle Stalin rose out triumphant. Unlike Stalin who inherited his rule from Lenin, Castro rose to power after the Cuban civil war where he defeated the Cuban president Fulgencio Batista and made Cuba a single party state. Russia has…

The Birth of Stalinism and the Soviet Union If one wishes to peer into the atrocious effects of an oppressive regime they need look no further than the gulags. The gulags were forced-labor camps that existed within the Soviet Union during the reign of the oppressive dictator Joseph Stalin. The book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn describes the single day of an average prisoner in the camp named Ivan Denisovich. In order to understand the society and conditions…

of the book, was an allegory for Tsar Nicholas II who was later driven out by the Russian Revolution, just like the animals did when they took control of the farm. The character Old Major is an allegory for the Russian Revolutionary leader, Vladimir Ilych Lenin, who led the revolution and wanted a land of socialism. Snowball is an allegory for Leon Trotsky, the first leader of the Socialist movement in Russia, because Snowball also becomes the first leader of the newly formed Animal Farm.…

The rise of Russia as a socialist, totalitarian nation under Josef Stalin would not have been possible without Vladimir Lenin’s economic and social policies. After the revolution in 1917, Lenin led the communist, Bolshevik party that controlled Russia. It will be argued that Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP) was an instrumental step in the foundation of totalitarian Russia. It will be shown through the increased economic stability, the introduction of laws to gain further dictatorial control of…

The animals and the events in Orwell’s Animal Farm represent the events transpiring up to the Russian Revolution. In HtRLLaP, Foster states that anything can be a symbol as long as it has more than one meaning, insinuating that Orwell’s book could also have symbols in them; the pig, for example, could represent the ones in power like Napoleon to Joseph Stalin. Conceit, greed, corrupt— those are the characteristic that Stalin had and those are also the attributes of Napoleon. Orwell wrote animal…

government. Vladimir Lenin, he was influenced by a lot of other men including Karl Marx, Karl Kautsky, and Alexander Herzen. They also had the Red Guards who were volunteer armed bands formed by industrial workers in cities. On the contrary, the wars were started by many things that they did not agree on. Some of the disagreements were Tsar Nicholas who was overthrown and a Provisional Government was put up in place of the Tsarist government. And also another reason was that Lenin gained…

revolution against the capital system to eliminate the classes and have an equal rights to everyone. Therefore, the first head of the Soviet Union, the revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, who gave the workers what Marx had in his mind with changes of some crucial aspects of Marx 's in order to fit it into the Russian situation. After the Lenin Dead in 1924, Joseph Stalin took the power of the USSR. Some might argue that Stalin applied to the theory of Marx, but in fact he was in the opposite…

Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks were born out of Russia’s Social Democrat Party. When the party split in 1903, the Bolsheviks only had one obvious leader which was Lenin. Furthermore Bolshevism was a dissenting movement within Russian Marxism before World War I that became the founding political party of the Soviet Union. The…

How Lenin Paved The Way For Stalin’s Great Terror Throughout the history of the Soviet Union, there have been numerous leaders who would influence future leaders with their policies and actions. However, there has been no greater influence than Vladimir Lenin had on Joseph Stalin’s style of leadership. Lenin’s policies and actions from 1917 to 1924 indirectly caused many of Stalin’s ideas to come to fruition, including his infamous Great Terror movement from 1936 to 1938. The Great Terror is…

In the 1910’s and 1920’s Russia had a revolution. Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks into battle and overthrew Alexander Kerensky to be the new government in Russia. He wanted to start communism in Russia and did it. As for the United States, Americans were scared of communists and communists. They were scared that they would change the U.S. government and change U.S. life. Former President Woodrow Wilson’s attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer did not want any Bolshevik Revolution and at every…