... country developed and implemented iron works and factories, including all the elements that the industrial society does exhibit today. Even so, the industrial revolution did not come in uniformly and neither did it move swiftly compared to the other countries like the Britain and this forced the peasants ... that fed the government was growing politically and so the political aspect was growing to be an issue that was led to the Russian revolution. The peasants and the urban workforce were always linked and the growth of politics within this workforce led them to be quickly turned ... s...

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... and Trotsky was arrested, leaving Stalin and Yakob Sverdlov (another prominent Bolshevik) temporarily in charge of the Bolsheviks. After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). This decline only proved temporary, ... relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly there...

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... and Trotsky was arrested, leaving Stalin and Yakob Sverdlov (another prominent Bolshevik) temporarily in charge of the Bolsheviks. After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). This decline only proved temporary, ... relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly there...

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... 1914, he had attended a number of Party Congresses and risen high in Lenin's favor, who appointed him to the Bolshevik Central Committee. It was at this time that he adopted the name "Stalin," meaning "steel one." In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. From March until November of that year, Russia was ruled by a Provisional Government, which made plans ... for a democratically elected assembly. A number of miscalculations, however, along with the strain of continuing the war with Germany, paved the way for a Bolshevik coup in November of 1917. The new governmen...

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... rise of a proletariat, or laboring class. As the bourgeois became more wealthy the working class would grow ever more impoverished leading to a revolution and the establishment of what is called the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. In this utopian setting, all class distinctions would be abolished as would ... The Communist Manifesto which which called for a huge revolt. It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!" Many peop...

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... of the party's policies. In addition to this, Lenin regarded him as able and reliable, although in his Testament, Lenin had criticised him for his lack of enthusiasm for the Bolshevik seizure in October 1917. Other political advantages that Kamenev had were that he had been the Moscow party secretary, and the commissar of foreign trade. This meant that he had ... as ruthless as he needed to be. Zinoviev, whilst having many good points, also had a lot of points that worked against him. His positive aspects were that he had been a Bolshevik since 1903, and had worked closely with Lenin, a...

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... believed in all men being equal, although democracy certainly wasn't part of their intentions. The western powers looked on with horror at the Bolshevik Revolution. Winston Churchill, British secretary of state for war wrote that, "civilisation is being completely extinguished over gigantic areas, while Bolsheviks hop on and caper like troops of ferocious Baboons." The ... allies felt they must try and crush the Bolshevik movement and sent in fourteen thousand troops, however, they failed to stop communism taking over Russia. In December 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U....

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... solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. The bitter struggle for survival of the Soviet Union in its early stage, in particular the Civil War ... believed that Marxism-Leninism was expansionist by nature. The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. This contributed to suspicio...

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... violence is not a good thing, it is detrimental to both the individual and society. However, in order to institute communism, (which is the greatest good according to Marx) a revolution is necessary. Revolution does not necessarily mean violence. However, in this case violence will be difficult to avoid, and Marx states that violence may be necessary. Marx wrote several passages regarding this ... successful. The collapse of European communism has had other implications as well. It has put a halt to the development of European socialism. After the 1870's, Marxism dominated Europe. The Bol...

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... disastrous mismanagement of the war effort, the antiquated mechanism of czarist rule simply disintegrated and was swept away. It was succeeded, after a lengthy period of political upheaval, by the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism "later known as the Communist Party "led by Lenin (Foreman 123). From its inception, Communist rule in the Soviet Union faced a variety of ... from the very beginning there were attempts to destroy it by force of arms, attempts that may have reinforced the endeavor of the Communist government to save itself by promoting revolution everywhere. Yet in its isol...

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... disastrous mismanagement of the war effort, the antiquated mechanism of czarist rule simply disintegrated and was swept away. It was succeeded, after a lengthy period of political upheaval, by the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism-later known as the Communist Party-led by Lenin (Foreman 123). From its inception, Communist rule in the Soviet Union faced a variety of problems. In ... from the very beginning there were attempts to destroy it by force of arms, attempts that may have reinforced the endeavor of the Communist government to save itself by promoting revolution everywhere. Yet...

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... were largely uneducated and had no history or experience in the process political participation. In 1917 the czarist rule collapsed and disappeared. After a lengthy period of political unrest and bloody revolution the Bolshevik faction of Russian Marxism took control. This faction would later come to be known as the Communist Party. This party was led by a man named Lenin (Foreman, 87). Communist ... dissolution of the USSR (Foreman, 23). The original communist state had a very troubled past and complicated and strained relationship with the rest of the world. The Soviets had always urg...

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... being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved ... by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadershi...

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... being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved ... by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadershi...

• Word Count: 5545
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• Grade Level: High School

... being assassinated by one of Stalin's agents. (3) Under Stalin any opposition was swiftly and brutally crushed. In no Eastern European country did the revolution have the support of more than a minority of people, yet this minority retained absolute control. The communist take-over and subsequent regime was achieved ... by Stalin, was reinstated. The fact that Khrushchev was willing to compromise illustrates again the precarious position of communist rule. The Hungarian revolution of 1956 was borne out of the relative success of the Poles in achieving concessions for the Moscow leadershi...

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... first attempt to change the existing order in the Russian Empire. The revolts after it were also unsuccessful until World War I, which served as a powerful catalyst for deep change. The Bolshevik Revolution was supposed to bring changes to many aspects of Russian people's lives. And it did bring a 99% literacy rate, the development of heavy industry, urbanization of the former agricultural country ... ...

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... successful directors in the USSR when filmmaking revived there during the 1920th. By 1916, the Russian film industry had grown, and there were thirty production firms in existence. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution brought filmmaking to a near standstill, however, and the slow, intense style that had developed in Russia during the war soon became old-fashioned. The post-Revolutionary era of the Soviet ... ...

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... by the breakdown of the old order in Europe, as a result of the First World War-of the defeat first of tsarist Russia, then of the Central Powers, and the revolution that followed"(Bullock, Alan). From the way they were raised, their rise to power and the way they ruled, both these historical monsters left an undeniable imprint on European history ... Eastern Siberia seven times between April 1902 and March 1913. He escaped many times to return and wreak havoc upon the tsarist government. In 1905, he went to the secret Bolshevik conference in Finland, where he met Lenin. Soon afterwards...

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... who would not give blind obedience to his regime and adulation to himself. Not much was needed for Stalin to sign a death warrant you need only share a surname with a former Bolshevik leader and you were sentenced. The most important thing, however, remains that you were to believe only in what Stalin believed, as if he were God, no one and nothing ... way of thinking. The secret police ensured communist ideology was taught. The arts were also controlled by the state, artists were encouraged to paint massive portraits of Stalin and the revolution, musicians and film-makers work was to b...

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