Vladimir Lenin And The Bolshevik Revolution

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:

The red terror started, as a result form an assassination attempt on Lenin from Fanni Kaplin in August 1918. From Lenin’s hospital bed he told the Cheka ‘prepare for terror’. There was no government that could argue against the work of the Cheka, they arrested and executed 800 people in St. Petersburg in 1918, the Cheka explained that they were ‘enemies of the state’ ‘enemies of the revolution’. The red terror lasted from September 1918 to October 1918. Lenin supported the Cheka and argued on their behalf. They were also supported by Gregory Zinoviev. War communism is were the Bolsheviks took control over the factories, mines, workshops and railways.The Bolsheviks took over the banks, private trade was not allowed, workers were forced to work in factories. The red army needed supplies to fight against the White army. The Bolsheviks were communists and they wanted to take control of industry and food production in Russia.

The Russian Revolution was a series of two revolutions that consisted of the February Revolution and the October Revolution. The February Revolution of March 8th, 1917 was a revolution targeted and successfully removed Czar Nicholas II from power. The February Revolution first began to take place when strikes and public protests between 1916 and early 1917 started occurring. These strikes were created to protest against and to blame Czar Nicholas II for Russia’s poor performance in WWI and severe food shortages that the country facing. Soon, violence between protesters and authorities began to escalate, and on February 24th, 1917 in the city of Petrograd, hundreds of thousands of male and female workers flooded the streets. They all had the same purpose which was to protest against the “Great War” and the monarchy. The protests began to escalate and the vastly outnumbered police were unable to control the crowds. When news of the unrest reached the czar, he ordered the military to put an end to the riots by the next day, and on February 26th, 1917, several troops of a local guard regiment fired upon the crowds, but however many soldiers felt pity and empathy for the protesters than the czar, and on the next day, more than 80,000 soldiers join the protest even directly fighting the police.

He left Trotsky in charge of planning the event, and he became the main leader of the Bolsheviks, the communist party he founded. In an attempt to bring the government down,in November 6th the Red Guards, first took main points in the city of Petrograd . Not many people were killed in the process. In November 8, the soldiers decided to take the Winter Palace. Here the Provisional Government surrendered and were captured and arrested.Lenin then gave a speech, revealing his own self and announcing that the government he was creating.

The Russian Revolution is a series of political events that occurred during the years 1905 to 1924. The February Revolution, in which overthrew the imperial government and the October Revolution, placed the Bolsheviks in power (britannica.com). The Russian Revolution happened because of discontentment of with the tsar, poverty in Russia, and lack of control over the government. During the In January of 1905, protesters were protesting in front of the winter palace because of extreme poverty and starvation due to peasants’ wages decreasing. The Russian workers and peasants wanted a better working and living conditions. More than 1000 protesters were killed and injured after the tsar, Nicholas the II, ordered his army to gun down the protesters. This incident, known as Bloody Sunday, led to the 1905 revolution. During the 1905 revolution, Russian Social Democratic Social Party split into two factions, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. Later in October of 1905, Nicholas the II issued the October Manifesto, which ended the Russian Revolution of 1905. In July of 1914, World War I begun which caused the Russians a lot of damage because four million Russian soldiers killed, wounded or captured. The Russian Soldiers refused the fight and people back in Russian were starving because of the lack of income from the war. World War I also caused the tsar to lose control of Russia as the war has caused chaos in Russia. Soon, continuous protests and revolts led to the March Revolution of

The effects that Lenin’s arrival first had on the Bolsheviks party began with the weakening of the provisional government, primarily ending Russia’s fight in the war. Lenin had been gathering supporters since the 1890s with those apart of the forces in the war, alongside other supporters, travelling worldwide and spreading his word of Marxist ideals and a Russia that was no longer wrapped up in World War One. It wasn’t long before he garnered enough manpower to seize control and caused a great deal of uproar when he had turned the Russian Army against the Russian provisional government to completely wash Prime Minister Kerensky out. After seizing railroad stations, telegraph lines, and government offices, and subsequently sending out the people-elected provisional government, Lenin was able to intimidate the elected government out of office and have control.

In 1912, Joseph Stalin was appointed by Vladimir Lenin to serve on the first central committee of the Bolshevik Party. The Bolsheviks were a member of the Russian Social Democratic Party. After the October Revolution on November 9, 1917, in which they seized power in Russia, they were renamed the Communist Party. A little over a year later, on January 22, 1918, Ukraine declared independence as the Ukrainian National Republic. Then, in 1920, the Bolsheviks gained control of Ukraine with the help of Lenin’s Red Army.

Lenin and Trotsky formed the Red Guard and set up the Military Revolutionary Committee which planned the October Revolution. The revolution itself was reasonably peaceful. The plan was to storm the Winter Palace but, almost everybody had lost faith in the provisional government and its leader Korensky had already evacuated the capital. Initially the effects of this were that the Bolsheviks came into power, the long term effects were they remained in power for most of the century.

Rising up from an average existence in middle class Russia Vladimir lenin became the most powerful man in all of his nation, and ultimately died starting a downfall of his beloved country.

The Communist Manifesto published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The foundation of revolutionary socialism or communism

I researched the Communist Party of Russia, which was founded in 1903 by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks. They were committed to democratic centralism, opposed capitalism, and were dedicated to the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’, or the rule of the economic and social class of industrial workers. The Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian imperial government in 1917 and changed their name to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1952. From 1918 through the 1980s, the CPSU was a monopolistic party with members consisting of high-ranking USSR government officials, which allowed them to make policy that was enforced by the government.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as his alias, Vladimir Lenin or even as simply as Lenin, was an influential and highly significant Communist revolutionary and political theorist turned politician during the early twentieth century. Greatly acknowledged as the spearing head of Russia’s Communist movement, Lenin became the main founding father of the Soviet Union through his lead of the October Revolution of 1917 as the head of the Bolsheviks. But, gaining followers and forming a new government involved solidifying a political philosophy in order to effectively create any real social or political change. Lenin’s own political philosophy evolution began with his exposure to liberal radicalism against Tsar Alexander II. Through thorough

Vladimir Lenin both a political scientist and government official. He lead the Bolshevik Revolution also founded the Russian Communist party. He considered “the most influential and controversial political figures of the 20th century.”-www.biography.com. Vladimir Lynch Ulyanovsk was born on April 22, 1870 in Ulyanovsk, Russia. He was the third of six children, all if his brothers and sisters where very close. Education was the number one priory in his life. Both of his parents made guided him to success. Later on in life things got very hard for Lenin. His father was an inspector for schools, they wanted him to quit his job because the influence he had on the Russian community.

Immediately, the Government illegalized strikes. Lenin exploited fears by pointing out Kerensky killed, imprisoned, censored, and took revolutionaries’ weapons without trial. The July Days caused the Revolution by suppressing the voices of the people and criminalizing the Government’s imprisonment of Bolsheviks. Following this, on August 27, commander-in-chief Kornilov, launched a coup to reinstate military, political, and social discipline; it failed due to uncooperative Bolshevik laborers and politicians. During the coup, Kerensky had to turn to the Bolsheviks for aid, weakening his position, and allowing Bolsheviks to collect weapons Kornilov planned to use. The Bolsheviks now had the weapons they needed. The Kornilov Affair granted the Bolsheviks popular support, and by the end of September, held a majority in Moscow and Petrograd. The Kornilov Affair, also appeared to be violation of soldier’s rights: forcing soldiers to fight against their will. Hingley argues the Kornilov Affair was an immediate political cause of the Revolution as it “helped strengthen the Bolshevik… gaining more support among the Petrograd garrison…building up their own organization of

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