The Influence Of Lenin's Bias Against The Bolsheviks

Analyzing the Bolshevik State compared to Marxism can be difficult because Marx, Engels and their followers gave relatively little thought to what the state would look like after a socialist revolution. Engels famously wrote, “the state is not ‘abolished,’ it withers away,” which highlights the hazy and unfixed nature of Marx and Engle’s writings on the ultimate, classless society they envisioned. Further, what they did write is subject to the differing interpretations by numerous socialist parties all claiming to be Marxist. As discussed earlier, Lenin claimed he simply reshaped Marxism to fit the conditions of Russia. Others argue his interpretation was not true Marxism at all. However, the basic principles of a socialist state in the eyes of Marx’s are outlined in the Communist Manifesto as follows:

Lenin was able to consolidate Bolshevik rule in Russia by combining popular policies and repression: To what extent do you agree with this statement.

kept his word, once shooting one in ten of the soldiers in a group of

The Success of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in October 1917 The Bolshevik seizure of power or coup de’tat of October 25th, 1917 was a culmination of both internal and external failure to satisfy the needs of an oppressed Russian society. In contrast to the spontaneous revolts earlier in 1917, the Bolshevik revolution was ‘a carefully planned plot carried out by ‘professional’ revolutionaries. ’[1] The victory of the Marxist Lenin’s

Beset by internal and external enemies, the Bolsheviks were engaged in a desperate struggle for survival. Pre-1917, they had been spent in

In order to establish whether Lenin did, indeed lay the foundation for Stalinism, two questions need to be answered; what were Lenin’s plans for the future of Russia and what exactly gave rise to Stalinism? Official Soviet historians of the time at which Stalin was in power would have argued that each one answers the other. Similarly, Western historians saw Lenin as an important figure in the establishment of Stalin’s socialist state. This can be partly attributed to the prevailing current of pro-Stalin anti-Hitler sentiments amongst westerners until the outbreak of the cold war. As relations changed between Russia and the rest of the world, so did the main historical schools of thought.

Furthermore, the fear of Russia specifically stemmed from the Bolshevik Revolution spreading a fear of communism internationally. The Bolshevik Revolution took place in 1917 and was an overthrowing of the Russian government by the Bolshevik party. The goal of this party was to replace the former government with a fully Proletariat government, meaning for the people (Lazuk). The Bolshevik Revolution was successful and took place in 1917 when the Bolsheviks gained control of Russia and turned the government fully Proletariat. The Bolshevik Revolution began to gain momentum in America this political movement in Russia created The Red Scare. The Red Scare was the immense fear of communism in the United States which resulted in accusations, jail

The October Revolution was interpreted quite differently by those hostile to the Communist leaders of the Soviet Union.  In their "‘top-down' histories of the Russian Revolution- the common people appeared as the passive objects of the evil machinations of the Bolsheviks."4  The Bolsheviks cynically adopted populist and anarchist slogans in order to recruit the masses as foot soldiers in their own quest for power.  If any apparent support for the October Revolution was seen among the masses, it was the product of ignorance, skilled propaganda and a supple improvisation by the Bolsheviks themselves, who "transformed their elite operation into a temporary mass organization"5 to seduce the Russian masses.  The ‘socialist reality of October' was imaginary, and the Revolution itself was an "amateur police operation" masked with expert propaganda to give "an appearance of proletarian legitimacy"6

The year of 1917 wasn’t one of the easiest with World War One destroying Europe, but one country had it worse, Russia. Communism is no longer present in Russia, it has played a major role in its revolution though. The build up to communism, and the revolution was due to many things, like bloody Sunday in 1905, but, mainly power struggles and leadership roles being pursued. World War 1 also greatly affected Russia, and its society. During the war, there was much famine, because the army was not getting the support that it needed from its country. The citizens were starting to lose faith in Tsar Nicholas II. A new government was intact, made of a group of socialist revolutionaries, one that was run by the people of Russia,

There are things that people get wrong about the Bolshevik revolution like who was in it, and what it was, and how it happened. First order of business is the who. Who was in it you might know. I am going to talk about the parties involved like the government and the factory workers and the peasants. There is one person in particular that may come to mind Lenin.

The popular, the majority, the working class, the predominant, the masses. There are countless terms available to describe who has the most socio-political power, the most weathered; the proletariats. In Vladimir Lenin’s eyes, in a capitalist society a proletariat is the term used to describe the working class, the class that does not have ownership of any means of production(land and capital) and whose sole income source derives from labor. The minority, who own the majority of the wealth, the means of production, and the means of coercion(law enforcement and legal system). In a capitalist society, the bourgeoisie exploit the proletariats. Only the bourgeoisie could afford the means of production, therefore they control the proletariat’s

Leon Trotsky's Contribution to the Success of the Bolsheviks Up To 1922 In this essay I will explain Leon Trotsky's contribution to the success of the Bolsheviks. I will consider a number of reasons including his organisation of the revolution, his actions on the 6th - 8th November 1917, public speaking, The Red Army & civil war, and the Kronstadt uprising. I will finish with a clear, concise, conclusion. Leon Trotsky was born in 1879 in a remote part of southern Ukraine.

only had the firm support of 15 of 25 members on the 15th of October.

Account For the Success of the Bolsheviks in October 1917 At the beginning of 1917 most of the Bolsheviks were in exile but by the end of 1917 the Bolshevik party had not only consolidated control of Moscow and Petrograd, but they were also advancing on the rest of the country. This success was due to several linked factors; the Bolshevik policy of non-cooperation, weakness of the Provisional Government, division of alternative opposition, Lenin's leadership skills, the power of the Petrograd Soviet and Trotsky as its leader, failure on deliver of land reform and the oppressed, armed workers in Petrograd. Bolshevik success is dictated by whether they met their aims; these included the

The Success of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 Part 1 Karl Marks was not Russian and he died 34 years before the Russian revolution, he was a German who spent most his life in England. He worked as a journalist but wrote books on history, religion, economics, society, and philosophy. Marx hated the system of capitalism because he thought that it was capitalism that had produced the problems of industry, poor living conditions and the social gap of the rich and poor. He thought that the system destroyed people and made them greedy and that people only wanted something if it was worth money. Karl Marx realised that there was not enough money to make everyone rich but he did thin k the world