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History Coursework Plan Section I Introduction- Introduce Lenin and aims of the essay such as giving a balanced view of Lenin’s Legacy. Try to keep it short. Section II- Lenin’s Role in the 1917 Revolution Points for Lenin • The April Thesis- The April Thesis was a monumental step in Lenin’s step to revolution. The speech outlined the failures of the provisional Government. This helped gained the sympathy of the general public of Russia and boosted support for the Bolsheviks. The April thesis laid

Rajput Painting Throughout the modules of this course we have learned about different elements of Eastern art that give us the tools to try and understand the complexity that is Indian painting. Indian painting has dated back many centuries, starting with paintings on pottery coming from the bronze age found in Baluchistan 3 (17). Since this time until the 17th century (which is when the piece of art I chose), Indian painting has progressed and developed immensely. I chose art from the Rajput

English 102-109 21 October 2014 The Red Convertible Criticism’s In Laura Kryhoski’s critical analysis of “The Red Convertible,” she points out several elements often overlooked when reading the short story for the first time. At first glance, the story appears “definably tragic” (Kryhoski). Kryhoski claims that if the reader were to investigate author Louise Erdrich’s background, the story would seem less of a tragedy and more of a reflection of her upbringing. As the narrator in “The Red Convertible,”

ago in the early 1800’s in Paris is a little girl known as Little Red by all the town folks. One night in late October Halloween to be exact Little Red wanted to hang out with with her friends but her mom and grandmother didn't think it was a very good idea to let Little Red out with her friends so late at night on Halloween but Reds mother loved her so so so much that she just couldn't say no to her l. So as the day gets darker Red is getting to begin the night. When her friends show up she greets

How successful were the Bolsheviks in consolidating their power from 1917-1924? Was Communist ideology compromised during this period? On 24-26 October, the Bolshevik Party seized power from Kerensky’s Provisional Government. This was achieved with surprising ease. Retaining their newly acquired power, however, was to prove difficult. Nonetheless, the Bolsheviks proved successful in consolidating their power from 1917-1924, achieving this through a combination of pragmatic reforms and ruthless terror

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

1. Mustafa Kemal helped establish the Republic of Turkey and became its first president. Born in the Ottoman Empire, he dethroned Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the Young Turk Revolution in 1908. Soon after, he rose up the ranks in the Ottoman military; he fought in the Italo-Turkish War in 1911, in the Balkan Wars from 1912 to 1913, and in the Great War from 1915 to 1918. He became well-known after the strong resistance in Dardanelles against the Allies. After the Treaty of Sevres, the Allies took control

Leon Trotsky, originally known as Lev Davidovich Bronstein, was born November 7th in the year 1879. Born to a Jewish-Russian family of wealthy but illiterate farmers, he was sent to school in Odessa by age nine. Although he was enrolled in a German school, during his studies there the school was “Russified” during the Imperial Government’s policy of Russification. The environment of the town of Odessa contributed greatly to the development of Trotsky’s revolutionary ideas and his international outlook

resulting in the government losing its followers. This was the most devastating defeat Russia has ever faced to a non-European force and proved Czar Nicholas unfit to rule the nation. To restore order within the society, Czar Nicholas instituted the October Manifesto, which

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