... of Karl Marx. After the death of Lenin, the government was taken over by a man named Joseph Stalin, who began the regression back to an oppressive dictatorship. Later on, Leon Trotsky, Stalin's Commissar of War and Chairman of the Supreme Military Council, became his greatest opposition and a dangerous threat to his absolute power due to his superior intelligence and ideas. From ... Marxist-Leninism; Boxer and Clover represent the proletariat (the urban industrial worker)-and more remotely the Chinese revolutionaries of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion; Napoleon stands for Joseph Stalin; Snowba...

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... Terror, by showing how mean the Bolsheviks are, but also, their propaganda was about traditional hatreds and mostly about the Red Army's leader, Trotsky, who was the most recognisable during this time. Ironically, the Mensheviks first came up with the propaganda and used it against the Bolsheviks, however ... French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head." (Trotsky, Leon) Trotsky thought the Cheka organization was setting a good warning for anti-Bolsheviks. During September and Oc...

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... are still felt around the globe today. Lenin was the main precursor who helped achieve and maintain this political order. Some may argue that Trotsky also held a main role but he was not a member of the party at the time were Lenin wrote and constructed his theses and therefore ... -condition phase was not as vital in Lenin's initial success. Although throughout the civil war and the critical phase in general, Lenin relied upon Trotsky's brilliant mind and military organizational skills to achieve greatness, it was Lenin's drive and the conviction along with his unfailing commitment whic...

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... left-wing Republican government and the rightist Fascist rebels. He and his wife traveled to Spain to help the government forces. Orwell sided himself with the Spanish Trotskyists, followers of Leon Trotsky, Stalin's rival for power after Lenin's death. In Spain he experienced the same events as were going on in Russia. When the government gained control, they began to hunt down ... Stalin had complete control of the government and was backed by the Russian secret police, the KGB. Stalin turned against his colleagues who had helped him defeat the followers of Trotsky, and they were expe...

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... , whom they regarded as the true champions of the revolution. The Bolsheviks became the majority party in most of the Soviets by October 2. They formed the Military Revolutionary Committee under Leon Trotsky. Under this committee, the Red Guards were organized and commissars were procured to take charge of the Petrograd army units. Thus the complete allegiance of the Petrograd troops was secured ... Republic. In 1921, Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy (N.E.P) which was a blend of state socialism and state capitalism. After Lenin's death in 1924, there was a keen struggle between h...

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... of the Five Year Plans thereby creating a colossal Russian industry, saved the nation after a bitter war. When Lenin died there was period of competition between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin as both had conflicting views on communist ideology. "Trotsky favoured "world revolution" The USSR should push on with the task of encouraging other proletariat masses to overthrow their capitalist masters. (Cowie, 1994, p158 ... ). Trotsky believed, continuing with the teaching of Karl Marx, a world wide revolution of Communism should take place with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics leading...

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... to the consolidation of power among the pigs. Much like the Soviet intelligentsia, the pigs establish themselves as the ruling class in the new society. The struggle for preeminence between Leon Trotsky and Stalin emerges in the rivalry between the pigs Snowball and Napoleon. In both the historical and fictional cases, the idealistic but politically less powerful figure ... (Trotsky and Snowball) is expelled from the revolutionary state by the malicious and violent usurper of power (Stalin and Napoleon). The purges and show trials with which Stalin eliminated his enemies ... ...

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... were looking for new leadership. The citizens knew that even though Lenin said he organized his government on democratic principles that in reality the Communist party held all the power. Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin were among Lenin's revolutionary/ supporters. They both helped create the Soviet state. After Lenin died because of a stroke at age 54, these/ two men ... (Trotsky and Stalin) became bitter rivals for control of the Communist Party. The outcome of this/ struggle would determine the future course of the Soviet Union. Stalin, Lenin's successor/ would aim ... ...

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... came to be the head of government. This followed the death of Vladimir Lenin on January 21th, 1924. After his death there was a struggle for power between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Stalin proved himself to be a more capable politician and won. Stalin had an obsession for industrialisation and the need expand industrially. He forced peasants into giving up their land, grain ... ...

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... was thought that until this happened Russia could not build their utopian society. The ministry of foreign affairs was changed to the People's Commissariat of foreign affairs and led by Leon Trotsky; however he approached his job with the expectance of an immediate worldwide communist revolution. "I will issue a few revolutionary proclamations to the peoples of the world and then shut up ... ...

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... , under moderate socialist control, initially would not challenge the Provisional Government. After all, it had been selected by the democratically-elected Duma. However, under the direction of Vladimir I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky, the radical Bolsheviks gained a majority in the soviets and called for the violent overthrow of the Provisional Government and control of Russia by the soviets alone. Lenin attracted considerable support ... ...

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... alliances with Kamenev and Zinivyev to insure that he would stay in power. This smart move also helped him defeat his biggest threat and the foremost candidate for Lenin's position Leon Trotsky. Once the threat of Trostky was eliminated, Stalin reversed course, making a new alliance with Nikolay Bukharin, and Aleksey Rykov. This new alliance was against his old friends Kamenev and Zinivyev ... ...

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... White forces. During the war between Russia and Poland, from 1920-1921, his decisions as Political Commissar ended in catastrophe and he had an ongoing conflict with Commissar of War, Leon Trotsky. During this time, Stalin re-married a Nadezhda Alliluyeva in 1918 and moved to Moscow because of his job in the government. Stalin continued his post as Commissar for State Control ... ...

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