Response The Provisional Government was established by the Duma immediately following the February Revolution to function as a Russias governing body in March 1917. ... Peace referred the Bolshevik opposition to the war as Bolsheviks was the only party that continually opposed the war. ... As a result, they drew considerable support to Bolsheviks from both industrial workers and poor peasants, extending the Bolsheviks membership to 200 000 by September, 1917. ... He suggested all political power should be handed over all Russia Soviets, were the Bolsheviks had the majority of support, making t...

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The Bolsheviks Rise to Power By 1921 the Bolshevik party had gained power and control over the former Russian Empire. ... Much of this was also due to the possibility that if the Populists did not act soon they would lose their chance of revolution to the capitalists. ... In the late nineteenth century, at the time of the industrial revolution, a Populist Party known as the "Peoples Will" appeared. ... Then in 1905, there is a massive revolution which forces Tsar Nicholas II to forfeit his power over political parties, trade unions, and a representative assembly known as the Duma. ... T...

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Although the March Revolution was successful in bringing down the czar, it failed to set up a strong government to replace his regime. ... Lenin planned for the Bolsheviks to storm the Winter Palace in November of 1917. ... The whole revolution was over within a day. ... The Bolshevik's were renamed the Communist Party. ... The Bolshvik Revolution brought great change to Russia. ...

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When the Bolsheviks formed a revolution and took over Russia's government, the immediate decision, which they made, was one to discontinue the war with Germany. ... However, none is important enough to cause a revolution by itself. When these causes are combined together they can and did quite easily cause a revolution. ... The Bolsheviks were desperate to destroy its oppositions, as it had many, but the Bolsheviks were strong and had a very clever leader, Lenin. ... The Bolsheviks tried to get rid of and destroy the disloyal people of Russia, who did not support the Bolshevik ways, a...

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Lenin knew that the majority of the Russian population was peasants and used their darkening situation as the Bolsheviks basis for revolution. ... In an attempt to gain momentum for Lenin's movement, Trotsky convinced Lenin to name the revolution in favor of the soviets. ... Trotsky's Red Guards, an exceptionally well trained private army devoted to the Bolshevik revolution, played a crucial part in the seizure and maintenance of power in the newly named Communist government. ... Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution answered with Trotsky's Red Army and by the spring of 1919, t...

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Lenin the seized opportunities that presented themselves, picking up backing from the troopers, peasants and proletariat, through his motto 'End the war; Land to the Peasants; All Power to the Soviets'; in conjunction with this, he changed the Bolshevik Party into a catalyst for revolution. ... Prior to the October revolution, Lenin plotted these changes in the April Thesis. ... It was Lenin who bargained for the goals of the revolution and took the Bolshevik's to power. ... However, the Bolsheviks were hesitant to acknowledge the NEP, despite agitated attitudes amongst the Bo...

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Bolshevik ideology primarily began to subside from its Marxist roots during the October revolution in 1917 in Petrograd, when the party first seized power from Kerensky's Provisional Government. ... However, Lenin's April thesis presents Marxist ideology, as he strongly emphasizes Russia's readiness for revolution as a result of WWI. ... Not only was the revolution un-Marxist in character, as David Christian discusses, it was meticulously carried out by a small group of trained revolutionaries to initiate secure control of Russia – the Military Revolutionary Committee le...

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Through sheer force of personality alone, Lenin was able to push forward the revolution. ... Lenin had a clear direction as to what he wanted the Bolsheviks to do, and his pre-revolution strategy alone gave the Bolsheviks strength and set it in good stead. ... Lenin's leadership and ability to lead the Bolsheviks is also undeniable, the October 1917 Revolution being one that required a great amount of planning and a great amount of organization to make it succeed. This success did not come solely on spontaneous discontent or the failures of the provisional government, Lenin's awe-ins...

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Before a revolution occurs a number of preconditions are often necessary. ... Germany believed that revolution was disaster to a country and by allowing Lenin and his compatriots to return they were helping to spreading Revolution. ... The Bolsheviks, though use of promised land reforms and alternatives to the Tsarist monarchy, only had a limited role in the first revolution. ... The October/ November revolution, where the provisional government was overthrown and the proletarian based republic established, was a direct effect of the actions of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. ... Lenin and the Bo...

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Lenin and the Russian revolution Introduction The Bolsheviks started off, in 1903, as the minority of the Social Democratic Party. ... Lenin believed strongly in these morals and used them as a guide to his goal of revolution. This essay focuses on how the Bolsheviks gained power and background to Bolshevik Revolution and also the outcomes of the revolution. ... Later on Trotsky, a Menshevik, who helped him organise the movement and revolution. ... The Bolsheviks were also renamed the Communists. ...

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The Russia Revolution In the middle of the First World War a very beat up Russia wanted out. ... The group's name was the Bolshevik. ... Trotsky was a huge help to the Bolshevik. ... Throughout the whole Russian revolution there was a huge change in Russia the people were to poor and starving to do anything. ... With the help of Lenin and the Bolsheviks the Russian revolution was a huge step forward for the people of Russia. ...

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The "Red Guards," were a big part of the Bolshevik's army. ... "In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head." ... "...It would be an infinite crime on the part of the revolutionaries were they to let the chance slip, knowing that the salvation of the revolution, the offer of peace, the salvation of Petrograd, salvation from famine, the transfer of the land to ...

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Before a revolution occurs a number of preconditions are often necessary. ... Germany believed that revolution was disaster to a country and by allowing Lenin and his compatriots to return they were helping to spreading Revolution. ... The Bolsheviks, though use of promised land reforms and alternatives to the Tsarist monarchy, only had a limited role in the first revolution. ... The October/ November revolution, where the provisional government was overthrown and the proletarian based republic established, was a direct effect of the actions of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. ... Lenin and the Bo...

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The latter which represented factory workers, social revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was to guide the revolution. ... At the same time, the masses became attracted towards the Bolsheviks, whom they regarded as the true champions of the revolution. The Bolsheviks became the majority party in most of the Soviets by October 2. ... Since the October revolution was a deliberately planned coup d'état by Lenin and the Bolshevik controlled Petrograd Soviet, Lenin is rightly considered to be the Father of the Bolshevik Revolution. ... The Bolshevik Revolution is still going on....

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Revolution in Russia was inevitable. ... She made her presence known among a group known as the Bolsheviks. The Bolsheviks supported efforts for revolutionary change, not small social reforms. ... She believed that a Bolshevik led revolution gave women an opportunity to develop rapid change. ... Alexandra Kollontai knew the only way she was going to accomplish the tasks she set was from a working class revolution led by the Bolsheviks, a communist party. ...

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Once that is achived, one can then look more cearly upon the revolution, as either a "revolution from below," or a "revolution from above." ... They felt that the revolution had not brought them what they wanted, and they felt cheated. ... During the February revolution, the Bolshevik party was in total disarray, with few members actually in Russia and out of jail. ... The Bolshevik party growth even surprised it leadership. ... Richard Pipes, on the other hand, believes that Lenin, not the workers, was the driving force of the revolution. ...

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Does Marxism adequately explain the Bolshevik revolution of November 1917? ... Whether Marxism could explain the Bolshevik revolution is in somepart loaded with obscurity as one will realise that revolution was a conceptual ideology originating to Karl Marx himself. However it is important to understand the link between Marxism and the Bolsheviks to establish in what form Marxism could explain this particular revolution. ... The bolsheviks revolution in october was really the "actual" socialist revolution according to lenins. ... Marx influenced Lenin tremendously, however here, marxism i...

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But it was corrupted and weak, setting the stage for the Bolshevik triumph (Satter 101). ... It must be understood, the Russian Revolution was not a classical revolution. ... Despite common belief, the Bolsheviks did not have the support of the masses. ... This is the sort of fanaticism that propelled the Bolsheviks to power. ... This hunger for power more than made up for the small following of the Bolsheviks. ...

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The October coup of 1917 that resulted in the Bolshevik consolidation of power revealed that all the party's efforts had been directed towards preparing for revolution, however little attention has been given to the details of how affairs would be organized after this was accomplished. ... Lenin's government was presented with an immediate problem - the Bolsheviks had only won a quarter of the seats in the November elections for the Constituent Assembly. ... The Bolshevik's crushing of the Constituent Assembly and subsequent outlawing of all other parties showed that they were n...

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In 1921, the Kronstadt mutiny, where sailors previously loyal to the Bolsheviks revolted against War Communism. ... The NEP was criticized by many Bolsheviks because it abandoned Socialist principle and took a big step back to capitalism. ... Later in post-revolutionary Russia Lenin and the Bolshevik party launched the slogan of "peace, bread and land" to gain increased support for the Bolsheviks. ... The CHEKA kill and persecutes under order from the Bolsheviks, and with it they leave the land with the peasants. ... But they were just oppressed again under Bolshevik rule and then unde...

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The release of the Communist Manifesto (published in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) on the Russian populace in the late 18th century was a catalyst for the violent, bloody Bolshevik revolution in 1917 – however the influence of the Manifesto, and by extension Marxism, is still hotly debated by historians and differing historiographical schools of thought. ... These historical ideas (in which the bias of political, social and class background should be considered), shared with historians such as Leon Trotsky, state that the Russian Revolution, and the beginnings of the workers ...

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The swiftly changing political landscape of Russia in 1917 gave way to the rise of the Bolshevik party at the helm of the Russian government. ... Seven months after the Provisional Government's formation, the Bolsheviks took command of Petrograd and disbanded the Provisional Government with the popular support of the Russian people, especially the soldiers and factory workers, whom the Bolsheviks empowered in unity. ... The reality of popular support is what gave the Bolsheviks the power to overthrow the Provisional Government in the October Revolution of 1917. ... These statements an...

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However, as in all successful revolutions, the leaders begin with idealist principles that are forced to change to more practical doctrines because of realism. ... Under Lenin, the Bolshevik revolution was an attempt to change the government of Russia to that of Marxism, or communism. ... Yet many of the Bolshevik policies skewed the lines between socialism and authoritarian rule. ... The idealized figure, the worker in whom the intelligentsia placed their hopes, carried a toughness and relentlessness that was necessary for the revolution. ... "As good Marxists, the Bolsheviks nationalized ban...

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Russian Revolution This essay is about the November 1917 revolution, the events that led up to and contributed to the revolution and Lenin's role in the revolution. ... The reasons why the revolution was a success and Lenin's role in that success. ... According to Lenin the working class were to be the people that would lead the revolution but he believed and knew that the people could not so he and the Bolsheviks would lead the revolution on behalf of the working class. ... The Bolsheviks were also flexible to certain extent, this was shown when Lenin created the NEP, many ...

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