One is that it was an attempt to put communist ideology into practice, a view that originated in the nineteen twenties. ... The party wanted to remove the Kulaks, the rich peasants. ... The party's ideology was based on the ideas of Karl Marx. ... This last stage was called communism by Marx and the Bolsheviks began to call themselves communists after the civil war. ... It seems that they were desperate to create what could call a communist state. ...

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In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, "effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party," the Bolsheviks. Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." ... Stalin appealed to that "Great Russian chauvinism" and to the Bolsheviks and many citizens who retained a f...

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In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, "effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party," the Bolsheviks. Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." ... Stalin appealed to that "Great Russian chauvinism" and to the Bolsheviks and many citizens who retained a f...

• Word Count: 1534
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• Has Bibliography
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Lenin's death in 1924 gave way to a fierce struggle for power developed among the members of the Politburo (the ruling body of the Communist Party which decided its policies) who had to choose which of them should take his place. ... Lenin wrote in his Testament: "Comrade Stalin having become Secretary [of the Communist Party] has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using the authority with sufficient caution...". ... He was also in the Party's Orgburo, which ran all its organizational matters but most important of al...

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Stalin Josef Stalin was the communist leader of Russia from about 1929 to his death in 1953. ... Stalin did many odd jobs for his party through his younger years. ... Stalin joined the Politburo, or the inner committee of the party, in 1919. ... Using these tactics, Stalin was the undisputed leader of the party by 1928 (The Party 14). ... He established communist governments in each of these countries, each of which was completely loyal to him. ...

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Stalin Josef Stalin was the communist leader of Russia from about 1929 to his death in 1953. ... Stalin did many odd jobs for his party through his younger years. ... Stalin joined the Politburo, or the inner committee of the party, in 1919. ... Using these tactics, Stalin was the undisputed leader of the party by 1928 (The Party 14). ... He established communist governments in each of these countries, each of which was completely loyal to him. ...

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The Party was founded in 1898. ... Vladimir Lenin was one of the leaders of the party. ... In 1912, Lenin promoted Stalin into the leading Bolshevik Party. ... The Bolsheviks triumphed so he was elected a member of the Communist Party's highest decision-making body, the Politburo, and the Central Committees Organisational Bureau in 1919. ... Stalin continued his post as Commissar for State Control until 1922 when we was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party, a position which gave him control over appointments and helped establish a base for his political power. ...

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On December 1st 1934 an event took place, which triggered the Great Purge of the party in the Soviet Union. ... Stalin claimed that the old left opposition with a "Leningrad Opposition center" was conspiring against him and the communist party and that Kirov murder was connected to this. ... The Purge of the party did not and here. ... The communist party monitored the Soviet Unions painters, writers, poets, painters, and made sure that they all supported the government. ...

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Animal Farm: Satire on Communist Russia Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is at the surface a simple novel of a group of animals living and working under the oppression of a tyrannical farmer who successfully overthrow him with a plan to live independently which backfires on them and ends them up under the even more dictatorial rule of the pigs. ... A political party known as the Bolsheviks, headed by V. ... Farmer Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Overthrown by the revolution and later executed by the Bolsheviks; Old Major is Marx and perhaps Marxist-Leninism; Boxer and Clover represent the ...

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In his rise to power, Stalin held a number of senior administrative posts within the Soviet government and party apparatus, becoming in April 1922 general secretay of the ruling Communist Party, a post which he subsequently built up into the most powerful in the country. After Lenin's death in January 1924, Kamenev and Zinoviev governed the party. ... From then on Stalin can be said to have exercised control over the party and the country, although this was not complete until the Great Purge of 1936-38. ... Trotsky's August 1940 assassination in Mexico, where he had lived in exile s...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lenin's revolutionary ideas, tactics and policies allowed him to split the party on the issue of membership. His vision was that the party should be exclusive, comprised only of a small amount of professional revolutionaries. ... "(1) Lenin's Bolshevik party attracted the support from professional revolutionaries from the provinces. ... Lenin was seen as the undisputed leader of his party. ... Leon Trotsky also joined that party. ...

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A long term cause of the Tsar's abdication was the rise of opposition groups, such as the Liberals, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and Social Revolutionary Party. ... Following the idea of Karl Marx, a German writer, another revolutionary group was created, the Social Democratic Party. ... In 1903 the Social Democratic Party split into two different groups, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks believed that the revolution should be lead by a small group of dedicated and skilled revolutionaries, they would lead the party and make all the decisions. ... The Socialist Revolutionary Par...

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Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. ... After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. ...

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Old Major-s role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. ... After Lenin-s death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. ...

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• Grade Level: High School