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Five Year Plans First World War
2,305 wordsBolshevik revolution The Bolshevik revolution occurred in November of 1917, its aim was to create a workers paradise and a dictatorship of the proletariat. By 1930, the Bolsheviks had imposed a totalitarian rule over Russia. This period can be divided into two distinct eras. Firstly, there was the period from 1917 - 1924, which included the decision to seize power, the civil war and a consolidation of power under the new economic policy. The second period occurred after Lenin's death, where oppo...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,415 wordsCommunism in Russia Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup d? tat gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today? s Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians? the only empire that survived into the mid 1980 s (Luttwak, 1). In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which all class differences would disappear and humankind would live in ...
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2,948 words(1879 - 1940) Leon Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) Leon Davidovich Trotsky (Bronstein) is one of the most contradictory characters in the history of Russian and international revolution movement-he was well known as a loyal leader of the masses and the Party, but on the other hand, his own ambitions often conflicted with interests of the Party members and other Communist leaders. Trotsky was born in 1879. His real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein. His father was a well-to-do Jewish farm...
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Fascist Party Prime Minister
2,660 wordsOn the 23 March 1919 after a series of Communist demonstrations, the almost forgotten Mussolini decided to attempt to revive his Fascist movement. A meeting was held in a hall in a Milan and was attended by some fifty malcontents. From this seemingly small and insignificant event the Fascist di Combattimento (Combat Group) was born. Initially, it would seem that the Fascist were destined for failure with none of their candidates (including Mussolini) winning a single seat in the 1919 elections. ...
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Forced To Resign Nikita Khrushchev
1,609 wordsNikita Khrushchev rose to power after the death of Stalin. He was a leader who desperately worked for reform yet his reforms hardly ever accomplished their goals. He was a man who praised Stalin while he was alive but when Stalin died Khrushchev was the first to publicly denounce him. Khrushchev came to power in 1953 and stayed in power until 1964, when he was forced to resign. Stalin died without naming an heir, and none of his associates had the power to immediately claim supreme leadership. T...
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Brest Litovsk Felt Threatened
2,589 wordsQuestion 1 Stalin and Trotsky led two very different political careers. Before 1917 Trotsky wasn t even a member of the Bolsheviks, siding with the Mensheviks at the 2 nd party congress in 1903 when the Social Democrats splintered into the two smaller parties: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. Trotsky sided with the Mensheviks more pacifist views towards revolution and general protests. In fact it wasn t until after the March revolution in 1917 when he was in jail (following the July days) that he was ...
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Russian Social Democratic Social Democratic Party
2,381 wordsRise of Communism in Russia -Unless we accept the claim that Lenin+s coup d+-tat gave birth an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today+s Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians the only empire that survived into the mid 1980 +s+ (Luttwak, 1). In their Communist Manifesto of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which all class differences would disappear and humankind would li...
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