Bolshevik Consolidation of Power
How were the Bolsheviks able to maintain their power in 1924? The Bolsheviks were able to maintain their power to 1924 by pragmatically applying policies to suit the circumstances they found themselves in. By using decrees, force, foreign policy, terror and economic policy as required, the Bols....

Discontent in Russia
The precondition to the October revolution in Russia was a period between 1905 and 1917. During this time there was a lot of social, economic and political discontent which existed. Revolutions occur because of these factors. The precondition phase indicates how and why this event occurred. The soci....

European History: Single party states
The crises faced by the Bolsheviks in the period 1917 to 1924 forced them to be ruthless and blind to human suffering. The charisma Lenin used in seizing power was replaced by terror in the suppression of political, military and economic threats. By the time of his death, the Bolsheviks had control ....

Evaluate the impact of Lenins death in 1924 on party leadership and the debate over modernisation w
Evaluate the impact of Lenins death in 1924 on party leadership and the debate over modernisation within the Bolshevik Party. Following Lenins death in 1924, debate about Russias economic future became tangled in a leadership struggle between Trotsky and Stalin. The conflict largely took the....

Explain why the Reds were victorious in the Russian Civil War
Explain why the Reds were victorious in the Russian Civil War. The October Revolution of 1917, in which the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, brought about a coup, to overthrow the Provisional Government was a success. They presented the takeover as a revolution in the name of the workers'....

French Revolution
Between 1861 and 1917, Russian society had undergone many changes. It is safe to say that every aspect of that society had been some how modified. These changes led up to the Bolshevik revolution in November of 1917. Given the nature of Russian society, was the Bolshevik revolution unavoidable? ....

Long-Term Effects of World War I
The establishment of communist states occurred after this war. The power of the soviets grew in Russia. Workers set up councils to organize protests and plan demonstrations. Every factory and military barrack in the city sent representatives to the St. Petersburg Soviet. It was a chilling site f....

Marxist Policy: Lenin vs. Stalin
The 20th century was marked by an era in which all parts of the world felt the pervasive impact of Communism, a movement that was initiated by the German philosopher Karl Marx. Marxs ideas and theories became known as Marxism, which proposes a classless society to promote equality and the dictato....

Much of lenins success was no doubt explained by his towering domination over his (Bolshevik) party.
Title: Much of lenins success was no doubt explained by his towering domination over his (Bolshevik) party. To what extent does this explanation account for his rise to power and rule, 1917 to 1924? Much of Lenins success can be explained by this towering domination over the Bolshevik party alt....

Political Parties of Kazakhstan
Evolution of political parties of Kazakhstan has its roots at the beginning of the 20th century. At that period Kazakhstan was a part of Russian Empire. The increased Russian influence and colonization policy in Kazakhstan conduced to the creation of the first political party of Kazakhstan, Alash Or....

Russia
Russia did not exist as a nation just seven years ago. It was formed from the ruins of a greater nation. Russia's current troubles are based on problems it found, or created, during the years it operated under socialism. This theory, which proposes equality and the means of achieving it, has been sc....

Russias withdrawal
In this essay I will talk about the countries that were involved in the Great War and the events that occurred in Russia and led to their withdrawal from the War. One reason why the war broke out was because nobody tried that hard to avoid it. In 1879 Kaiser Wilhelm II had an alliance with the ....

Singing Revolution - Estonia
Estonia- bordered to the north by Finland, Russia in the east, Latvia to the south and the Baltic Sea to the west, is a small country in Northern Europe with a population of around 1.34 million. Estonians are among the oldest peoples in the world with the earliest settlements dating around 11000 yea....

The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917
The Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 is very important in the history of Russia. The importance of the revolution is demonstrated through the leadership, ideas, organisation, international influence and violence and terror behind the revolution. October 1917 saw the Bolsheviks take control ....

The Chechen Insurgency
The Chechen Insurgency A friend of mine once remarked that any country east of Germany had a weird name, a place much unlike anything they considered normal. I believe my friend is typical of many Americans. The world as a whole is a daunting place, filled with complexities, disputes, and diff....

The peasant as a revolutionary
Marx had great scorn for the peasants as he believed that the very conditions of the labour and the isolation it brought would prevent them from seeing themselves from seeing themselves as an oppressed class. Without class consciousness the peasants would never be a revolutionary force. Marxists ha....

The Rise of Communism in Russia
Unless we accept the claim that Lenins coup dtat 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 1980s (Luttwak, 1). In their Commun....

Why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in October 1917?
In this essay I will be finding out why the Bolsheviks were able to take power in October 1917. The main body will consist of three parts. Firstly, the reasons why the Provisional Government in Russia had lost support due to the problems in Russia that were not handled by them. Secondly, the reasons....

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