Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, otherwise known as Lenin, was the Communist Russian revolutionary who led the October Revolution of 1917. He was the leader of the Bolshevik Party and Russia during the Civil War. On his death in 1924, his body was embalmed and put on exhibit in the Lenin Mausoleum.
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AnoviaAt first, Lenin wanted a society where the factories and land would be owned by a central government, i.e., socialism. Eventually...
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Joseph Stalin had informers in among Lenin's secretaries who told him about the Testament. Stalin got control of it and never let...
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Yes, and that was a major part of Leninism. Whereas Marx anticipated a revolution of a united force of factory workers, Lenin...
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"Russia" was never divided into separate republics to become the Soviet Union. In 1922, Russia joined with Ukraine, Belorussia...
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This probably refers to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, a rather humiliating treaty, to which Lenin had to agree in order to end...
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No he did not. Lenin was dedicated to turning Russia from a capitalist country into a socialist country. Communism would come...
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Peasants actually played very little in the way of a role with either revolution. The February Revolution was largely a matter of...
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Lenin was head of state (his exact title being Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars) between 8 November 1917 - 21...
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The Russian Czar was never taken over by the Communists. Czar Nicholas II abdicated his throne in March 1917 when he lost control...
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Yes, a Bolshevik is a person who believes in Bolshevism or who was a member of the Bolshevik Party founded by Vladimir Lenin.
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Lenin's first move as head of the government after the October Revolution was to abolish the private ownership of property.
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Russia prior to 1917 was an autocratic country ruled by the Romanov dynasty. Tsar Nicholas II was the last Romanov ruler....
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Joseph Stalin ended Lenin's New Economic Policy in 1929 because he instituted his own economic plan called the Five Year Plan....
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The Bolsheviks were also known as "Communists" but not until the Seventh Party Congress of the Bolshevik Party in March 1918,...
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Stalin did not succeed in gaining power over Lenin. Lenin remained in power until he suffered a series of three strokes beginning...
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In 1922 Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus Federation joined together to form the Soviet Union.
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The Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin changed its name to the Communist Party in March 1918.
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The slogans for the 1917 revolution were "Land, peace and bread!" and "All power to the soviets!". - Lenin.
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Lenin married Nadezhda Krupskaya while in exile in Siberia in 1898.
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There was no communist takeover of Russia. For there to be one, there would have had to be communists, already. There weren't, in...
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Bank robberies for one. Aside from revolutionary activities, Lenin and the Bolsheviks were engaged in what they called...
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In 1940, a Spanish-born Soviet agent, Ramon Mercader, murdered Trotsky at his home in Mexico City. He plunged an ice pick into...
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The February Revolution of 1917 is the revolution that ended the rule of the Tsars. The October Revolution staged by Lenin and...
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21 January 1924 he died because of a forth stroke
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On December 29-30, 1922, the Treaty of the Soviet Union was entered into by Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and the Transcaucasus...
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Joseph Stalin was a part of the Bolsheviks, whereas Lenin himself was the Bolsheviks leader. They fought to change Russia too the...
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Lenin fled from Russia to Finland to avoid being arrested by the forces of the Russian Provisional Government. There had been an...
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The word Marxism-Leninism is used roughly as a synonym for Communism. (Marx was a philosopher who wrote about his ideas for a...
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Lenin's greatest achievement was staging the October Revolution in 1917. By doing that he was able to overtrow the existing...
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1) Peasants and workers objected to war communism, such as rationing of foods as well as private training being banned. This...
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Lenin's older brother had been executed for plotting to kill Tsar Alexander III when Lenin was just a teenager. Lenin was so...
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Lenin was not the first leader of Russia. He was the first leader of the Soviet Union when it was organized under the Treaty of...
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Most Bolsheviks were not; however some important ones were Jewish by ancestry but did not practice their religion. Some Jewish...
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Lenin took control of the more radical Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. This faction ultimately...
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The February Revolution in 1917 did not affect it at all, because the new Provisional Government kept it going just as the Tsar...
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Bolshevik is the name of the ruling communist party - more radical and with fewer members than the pre-revolution Mensheviks.
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They called themselves Bolsheviks at first. After the October Revolution of 1917, they adopted the name Communists in March 1918.
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Marxism promised the Russian people freedom from opression, slavery, poverty & all the ills of the world by an equitable...
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When Lenin returned to Russia in early April 1917 right after the February Revolution, his plan was to agitate the workers,...
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The result of the February Revolution was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the institution of the Provisional Government...
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Vladimir Lenin was born on April 22, 1870 and died on January 21, 1924 at the age of 53.
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Lenin was part Mongol, Jewish, Swedish and German. He was not Russian at all as far as ancestry goes.
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Nobody was buried with Lenin. He was buried alone, then embalmed and entombed alone in his mausoleum.
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A communist system of government replaced the old, decadent, corrupt monarchy, after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Lenin...
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You mean not liked by Russian feudalists and capitalists - I guess. Because he wanted to free the Russian people from feudalists...
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The Communist Internationale, also known as the 'Comintern', was an organization created by Vladimir Lenin to foment communist...
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Lenin returned to Russia on April 3, 1917, courtesy of the German government, which wanted Lenin to create revolutionary...
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The Revolutionaries were known as Bolsheviks under the leadership of Lenin. In March 1918 they changed their name to Communists.
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Lenin's "New Economic Policy" (NEP) was first executed in March 1921. It reverted to state capitalism; the state was to continue...
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The Cheka was Lenin's secret police force, although it's full acronymic was the VCheKa.
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Lenin thought Russia needed a strong central government that would own all land and industry in order to force the country away...
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The Russian revolution began in the city of Petrograd, formerly known as St. Petersburg. Petrograd was the Tsarist capital of...
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Lenin's party was known as the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution. The Bolsheviks began as one faction of the Marxist...
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russia's participation in World War I.
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The first head of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution was Prince Georgy L'vov from March 2, 1917 to July 9,...
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There were two revolutions in Russia in 1917, the February Revolution and the October Revolution. No particular group led the...
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Prior to the rise of communism, Russia was a czarist nation that held absolute power over its people. Russia's lower class had...
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The new name for the Bolsheviks was 'Communists,' which was adopted at the Bolshevik's Seventh Party Congress in March 1918.
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The first communist leader of the USSR was Vladimir Lenin. Lenin was in power at the time the USSR was formed in December 1922.
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Joseph Stalin opposed Trotsky in their struggle for power after Vladimir Lenin died in 1924.
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In 1903, at the Russian Social Democratic Party Congress in Brussels, Belgium, Lenin adopted the name Bolshevik as the name for...
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The February Revolution of 1917 had no real leader, since it began as a spontaneous demonstration of dissatisfaction with...
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Whrn Lenin died, a trio of Joseph Stalin, Grogori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev controlled Russia together. Stalin eventually ousted...
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The mummified remains of the Boy Pharaoh Tutankhamen, which had been found in 1922, at least partly influenced the decision to...
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Lenin became leader of Russia on November 8th, 1917
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Abolishing private property was Lenin's first act on taking control in Russia.
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Lenin entered into the Treaty of Brest-Litovvsk when he pulled Russia out of World War 1.
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Lenin was associated with the following four newspapers: Iskra (The Spark) founded in 1900 Vperyod founded in 1904 after Lenin...
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Adolf Joffe was the head of the Soviet delegation negotiating the peace treaty with Germany and the rest of the Central Powers in...
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Vladimir Lenin and his Bolshevik followers split from the Menshevik dominated Russian Social Democratic Workers Party in 1906. In...
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The Russian Provisional Government headed by Prince Georgy Lvov and later by Alexander Kerensky ruled after the tsar abdicated in...
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Vladimir I. Lenin.
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_food production increased_industry began to cover_the value of money began to stabilise_the variety of good on sell increase
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There are several explanations. To begin with, in many European countries, including European Russia, the word "pamphlet" was not...
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Lenin criticized people for not reading his work within the proper historical context.
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Joseph Stalin held the position of "General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party" before and after Lenin...
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The answer to this specific question is Socialism, not Communism. According to Marx, after the revolution by the proletariat...
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He did not want to but was forced to accept it in order to save himself from being overthrown by either the German army or his...
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The Industrial Revolution advance capitalism to its final stage, which Marx saw as an ultimate evil. Before the industrial...
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Lenin agreed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk to end Russia's involvement in World War 1.
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Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution in World War 1.
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Vladimir Lenin's body was embalmed in 1924 and put on display at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
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Lenin wanted Trotsky to succeed him, because he felt that Stalin was too power hungry and crude. Lenin even wrote that before he...
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There were two revolutions in 1917, but Lenin led only the second one. The first was the so-called February Revolution (also...
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True. Vladimir Lenin instituted his "New Economic Policy" to replace his "war communism" when he realized that the new economic...
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The "Provisional Government" took control of Russia after the February Revolution. It was supposed to be temporary until a...
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The Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional Government in November 1917 (October according to the Russian calendar)....
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Lenin changed the nations names to Union Of Soviet Socialist Replubics or the Soviet Union. He also organized the Communist Party...
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The October Revolution, so called because it was October in Russia while it was November in the western world, took political...
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Civil War in 1918-1921Genocide against old elites and intellectuals in 1930s.Industrialisation,...
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Lenin called it the "New Economic Policy." It was more of a modification of the socialist system, which Lenin had imposed on the...
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In 1895 the Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class was created by lenin and a number of other Marxists in...
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