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The Russian Revolution was one of the most dramatic governmental shifts in European history. Before the Russian Revolution, Russia was an Autocracy. Tsar Nicholas II had succeeded Tsar Alexander III, his father, on May 26, 1896. However, Nicholas II’s rule took a turn for the worst rather quickly. After the Russian people lost faith in the tsar, they began to form strikes and riots. The Russian Revolution had effected World War I, caused the Russian Civil War, brought Russia a new way of thinking

In October , Nineteen-Seventeen the Russian Civil War began. The Russian Civil War is known as an after effect of the Russian Revolutions. The Russian Civil War began when two main political groups in Russia both wanted to independently run the country under completely different types of government. The two groups are known as the Bolsheviks who are allied with the Red Army and the White Army who had many allies in foreign countries such as Germany. The Bolshevik party led the revolution under the

on the Constituent Assembly,” thus showing that Lenin’s writing gave the Bolsheviks a strategic advantage, justified their extreme actions and impacted the course of Russian history. The “April Theses” influenced the October revolution to overthrow the monarchy and establish the Red Army in power. In the process, based on the theories of Karl Marx the first communist state in the world was established. Published on April 7, 1917 in the Pravda, Lenin criticized the provisional government and urged

state collective farms. 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

the Civil War started, the Bolsheviks passed a declaration announcing the creation of the Red Army, which was Trotsky's idea. On the 8th of April, Lenin appointed Trotsky as Minister for War. Shortly after Trotsky introduced conscription and obtained the numbers to overcome the Whites, the Red Army had a total of 3 million men by 1920. Trotsky's disciplinary actions paid off with the Red Army being able to launch a counter-attack, driving the enemy back. Thus, with Trotsky's

side with him rather than the provisional government. The long term affects of this were that once in power Lenin would have to keep his promise to the people. 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

Was Lenin more significant for his actions in 1917 or for his subsequent actions from 1918 to 1924? Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and was best known for being one of the main leaders of the October Revolution in 1917 and the first head of the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic. But was Lenin more significant for his actions in 1917 or his subsequent actions from 1918 to 1924? That is the question I will be exploring in this essay and I will be thinking of all of his actions in the mentioned

rose a man to power, who would later control through terror and fear the scared huddling mass of his people. No man is responsible for so much death, so much betrayal other than that of Joseph Stalin, who took power after the Russian Revolution, or Red Revolution of 1917. The reason for the breakdown of the government and the uprising of the Bolshevik party that would later spell the faith of the country, as well as the world, was due to the corrupt and ineffective system of government that was set

Why were the Bolsheviks successful in seizing power? What were the forces and actions that made them successful in seizing power in October/November 1917? Prior to the 1917 Revolutions, there was constant unsettlement within Russia; there was a struggle for food, a struggle for economic control and a struggle for a stable government. The February Revolution brought an end to Tsar Nicholas II reign and emerged was a Provisional Government based on democratic ideals. Despite the Provisional Government’s

peasantry and had failed to keep the military from falling apart. As previously mentioned, the Bolsheviks had harnessed the revolutionary mood of the workers and garrison soldiers in order to successfully go through with the October Revolution (Connor 1). The Petrograd Soviets and the Red Guards also supported the overthrow of the Provisional Government as they did not feel it represented their interests. This gave even more support to the Bolsheviks as they promised the overthrow of the traditional order