Vladimir Lenin

Old Major and Lenin died before the revolution started and two others took their place, Snowball & Napoleon/Trotsky & Stalin. They took the leadership and started the revolution, but Napoleon/Stalin was wily, they wanted the power themselves so they got Snowball/Trotsky…

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 monarchy. Stalin became an underground political protester in labor demonstrations and strikes. The First central Committee of the Bolshevik party was Stalin who was recommended by Lenin. Pursuing this further, in 1922 Stalin became the secretary general Central Committee of the Communist Party. After Lenin died Stalin became in power of the communist then dictator of the Soviet Union. Nazi, Germany was defeated with the help of the Red Army during WWII. Because of…

after the collapse of the Tsarist rule, Russia was led by a provisional government headed by Prime ministers. The provisional government only ruled for a short period of time and from October 1917 till 1964 there were 3 main communist leaders, Lenin (Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov), Stalin (Josif Vissarionovich Dzugashvili) and Nikita Khrushchev. Each of the Russian leaders in this period had a different background, although some were similar. The Tsars, Alexander…

All over the world, there have been rapid changes in politics and government that have not gone unnoticed. In this article, I will try to keep the American politics to a minimum, but I will address some of the bigger events and details. Here in America, things are very different than they were, say, 30 years ago. Recently, there has been a large wave of nativism in America and laws have been passed to limit immigration. This has led to a shortage of low-skilled laborers around the country.…

of nationalism into the Communist ideology. Early Communist thinkers such as Marx, Engels and Rosenberg shared similar views on the issue of nationalism in that it would become an irrelevance within a fully formed socialist state. Furthermore, Vladimir Lenin implemented these views of the Marxist thinkers into the USSR and believed in the theory of international socialism, where the struggle of the proletariat did not require nationalist elements to succeed. During the leadership of Josef…

people say that the USSR was communist, but I disagree. Vladimir Lenin, the chairman of the USSR who led the Russian revolution and established the USSR, knew that in order to establish communism the state would have to control the production and distribution of their profit. He also knew that would be ‘state capitalism’ but he believed it was a step to communism since the state was in the hands of workers, the communist party. However, Lenin was killed and Stalin took over. In other words, the…

The Life of Josef Stalin It is the middle of the 1910’s and World War One is ravaging Europe. Germany is on the brink, and they need a way to take Russia out of the war. They load a weapon on a train that’s headed to Moscow. His name is Josef Stalin. Josef Stalin, one of the best dictators of all time; and it all started December, 1878. Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 18, 1878 in the small village of Gori, Georgia. At the age of seven Josef contracted the smallpox disease…

The ideologies and goals of the Mexican and Russian revolutions were both engineered in hope that the result would strengthen the lower class, redistribute mass amounts of land, and create more equality between the rich and the poor. Although the results of both revolutions are viewed as successful, the conclusion of the Mexican revolution was drastically less radical than the Russian revolution because of Mexico’s multiple revolutionary leaders with conflicting ideas of change along with a lack…

Joseph Stalin, to put it simply, is the biggest mass murderer in the history of the world. He is plain evil, and that is what makes him so intriguing. From Stalin’s harsh adolescent years, to his crime ridden young adult years, and finally the years of his dictatorship, the life of Joseph Stalin is one for the books. Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili was born on December 18, 1879 in the Russian occupied country of Georgia. The Djugashvili family was desperately poor. Josef’s father was a…