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…When you read or watch Animal Farm, by George Orwell, you might think that it is only a science fiction book or movie, but if you study this deeper we can easily deduce that it is an analogy to the Russian Revolution. Even though most people do no see…

…and internationalist outlook, and were opponents of the Russian traditional statehood and the Russian Orthodox Church. The other faction of the RSDLP was known as the Mensheviks. In the April Theses, therefore, Lenin called for a struggle for a socialist program based…

…). No relief efforts were made by the government to aid the starving victims in the Ukraine. However, Lenin decided he must publicize the Russian plight to the Western powers in order to receive much needed aid. The Bolsheviks used the Orthodox Church, famous…

…involved a closer bond between party and state than had ever before been merged, all bureaucratic positions, factory managers, military supervisors and decision makers were party members. Totalitarianism flourished in Stalinist Russia because, as Lenin…

…included in these trials had to confess to a number of things that Stalin wanted them to confess to. This was so that Stalin could show to the Russian people that they were traitors and should be killed, instead of showing the public that the real reason that he…

…Russia Under Stalin When Lenin's reign over the Soviet Empire ended in 1924, the future course of Communist policies and dominance of the party were cast into uncertainty. This insecurity in the Soviet nation was even further intensified by the rocky…

…Revolution involved a series of uprisings by workers and peasants throughout the country and by soldiers, who were predominantly of peasant origin, in the Russian army. Councils known as 'Soviets' led many of the uprisings; ultimately, they led to Tsar Nicholas…

…We The Living: Real Communism vs. The Book There were many people involved in the Russian Revolution including Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin and Russian Czar Nicholas II. Marx theory was that communism would correct all…

…-Japanese war of 1904-5. The case of this was the conflicting ambitions of Russia and Japan in Manchuria and Korea. The Russian government had expected a ' short victorious war that would stem the tide of revolution'. The cause of the Russo-Japanese war…

…strikes, and on March of that year the Russian Revolution began, first with return of exile Vladimir Lenin from Switzerland and denounced the establishment of a provisional government (1). It was following by gaining of the seats in Parliament by Bolsheviks…