... -Russian Congress o Soviets, led to the storming of the Winter Palace on the 25th of October 1917 and the subsequent recognition of the Council of People's Commissars (with Lenin as chairman) by the Congress of Soviets. Lenin's leadership and ability to lead the Bolsheviks is also undeniable, the October 1917 Revolution ... This success did not come solely on spontaneous discontent or the failures of the provisional government, Lenin's awe-inspiring leadership and great foresight in leading towards the Revolution was very much vital leading to Bolshevik seizure of power. However it can al...

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... order to improve the poor living conditions of the Russian people, improve industrial output, so Lenin could stay in power the New Economic Policy was introduced in 1921. The NEP made it so peasants had to give the government a fixed amount of produce as tax, but were aloud to sell surplus for profit. People could use money again to make payments. Small factories ... famine, so capitalistic policies had to be introduced to fix up the problems that they caused with their Marxist principles. Politically in Russia, many different groups and people have said they would bring reforms before ...

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... there are various stages driven by socio-economic forces. The first stage was one of primitive communism. This was evident in Stone Age groups when people had no concept of private property and there were no social classes. The next stage was feudalism, where society is controlled by the landowning aristocracy. The peasants in this society, who were the majority, would ... hasty interpretation of war communism, with which I started this essay. Pipes argues that "War Communism as a whole was not a 'temporary measure' but an ambitious and as it turned out premature attempt to introduce ful...

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