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…instituted 1864-1885 Conquest of central Asia 1867 March 30 Alaska sold to the United States of America 1870 April 22 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) is born Mendeleyev's Principles of Chemistry 1872 Russian translation…

…into notice the cardinal miscue of Decembrists--failure to cooperate with the masses. Writes Lenin, "...We see three generations, three classes at work in the Russian revolution. First, come the gentry and landowners, the Decembrists. The circle…

…on events at that time, he was surrounded by the people whom were undertaking this revolution. Reed’s text is not a document written by a man in power such as Lenin or an advisor, but an onlooker, surrounded by the working class people of Russia. Accounts…

…, or also commonly know as Lenin, whom had been in exile in Germany at the outbreak of war, was sent back to Russia to seemingly overthrow the sitting government and pull the Russians out of the war. This is exactly what he did. Russian civilians and soldiers…

…of a combination of situations and events. This revolution resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and was the first stage in the Russian Revolution, leading to the October Revolution where Lenin takes complete control of the country. The first and underlying…

…in the Social Democratic Party and the crystallization of Lenin's conceptl of the necessity of a revolutionary vanguard made up of professional revolutionaries. Aware of the factor of spontaneity, Lenin granted great importance to the special necessity of centrally…

…The Fall of Communism in Russia The Reasons for the fall of Socialism/Communism and the Troubles of Starting the New Democratic System in the Russian Federation "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky." Boris…

…The Reasons for the fall of Socialism/Communism and the Troubles of Starting the New Democratic System in the Russian Federation "Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky." Boris Yeltsin (b. 1931), Russian…

…they are closely related. Up until World War I, socialism was followed by a small group of fervent followers. With the Russian Revolution, revolutionaries now spread their new economic system, not by the tongue but through the sword. A series of rebellions in Russian…

…share a bond far stronger than national loyalities. Thus, communism would also end nationalism, a major cause of European wars. Lenin and his followers took power in Russia in 1917 and began immediately to build a communist state. He felt…