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…support from the workers in Russian cities, who were becoming more important, but even in Jan 1917 Lenin was telling students that his generation would probably not see the revolution. Why then did the Bolsheviks succeed in gaining power? The Russian collapse…

…, the socialist revolution. He and others formed the first Russian Marxist revolutionary group, League for the Emancipation of Labor, in 1883. In 1900 Plekhanov joined with Yuly Martov, Vladimir Lenin, and others to publish the newspaper Iskra (The Spark) and define…

…in the new liberal democratic Weimar government and international forces, illustrated by civil unrest and attempted revolutions - namely the Spartacist rising where communists fuelled by the success of the Russian revolution occupied nearly every major city…

…in 1917. The Russian proletariat did not read the Manifesto and rise up as Marx always imagined -- most lower class Russians in 1917 were illiterate! Lenin wanted to stage a revolution, so he cast about for propaganda, and conveniently found Marx's manifesto…

…in Russia under Lenin” (Mazour 691). Napoleon was very self indulgent and craved power as did Stalin. “Although admired by some Russians, most would agree with the assessment in the West that Stalin was one of the cruelest dictators in history” (Encarta B…

…the Russian economy, (Gorbachev, Stalin, Lenin, Yeltsin, and the Tzar) but all of them had their many moments of failures. The new “Commonwealth of Independent States” or the CIS has worked hard to make new plans for an economy that can rise to the occasion…

…efforts of Piotr Kropotkin and Leo Tolstoy. The Bolsheviks suppressed political anarchism in Russia after the Russian Revolution. Anarchism’s only real mass following was in Latin countries, where its doctrines were often combined with those of syndicalism…

…nature. Socialism had failed to recognize the strength of determination. The absence of self-motivation in a government can result with a downfall of the country. For instance, during Lenin’s rule under a socialist structure, there was no incentive…

…on the proletariat, not the peasant class. One of the people influenced by Plekanhov was a man going by the name Nikolai Lenin. His revolutionary ardor was strong. Lenin went on to form a group called the Bolsheviks that would go on to create a revolution(Communism, 63-70…

…to the North Sea. On the other hand, Germans were much successful on the Eastern Front and had a series of quick victories over Russia. Only in a single Battle of Tannenberg 92,000 Russian prisoners were taken. After the failure of the German offensive, both sides…