LENIN Lenin was one of the leading political figures and revolutionary thinkers of the 20th century‚ who masterminded the Bolshevik take-over of power in Russia in 1917‚ and was the architect and first head of the USSR. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River on 22 April 1870 into a well-educated family. He excelled at school and went on to study law. At university‚ he was exposed to radical thinking‚ and his views were also influenced by the execution of his elder brother
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Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on November 7‚ 1879‚ in what is today known as Ukraine. He was the fifth child of a wealthy farmer‚ David Leontyevich Bronstein‚ and Anna Bronstein. The family was ethnically Jewish but not religious. At the age of nine‚ Trotsky was sent to Odessa to attend school‚ and as Deutscher points out in his biography‚ ‘Odessa was then a bustling cosmopolitan port city‚ very unlike the typical Russian city of the time. This environment contributed to the development
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Vladimir Lenin appointed Stalin to the Bolshevik Central Committee(Simkin‚ 1978). Under this condition he was appointed multiple jobs and had to oblige by various orders. Later‚ he was even appointed the advantage of people’s Commissar for Nationalities‚ and later the commissar of worker’s and peasant’s inspection(Simkin‚1978). After years of hard work‚ in 1922‚ he finally received the position he most gravely wanted‚ General Secretary of the Communist Party. Stalin was on his way to absolute power
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Communism in Malaysia Communism as an ideology was first introduced to Malaya by Chinese anarchists‚ and not by Kuomintang Left‚ Indonesian communists or Chinese communists as claimed in existing scholarship. A handful of Chinese anarchists arrived in British Malaya during the First World War to take up positions as Chinese vernacular school teachers or journalists. These Chinese intellectuals harboured not only anarchism but also communism‚ commonly known then as anarchy-communism. The withdrawal
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Who is better Napoleon or snowball? In my essay I am gonna compare them together and see which one was a better leader. I am gonna tell you some examples from the book to see which one was the best. I believe snowball did a better job and he leads them to the victory of Cowshed. Napoleon is a person in the book‚ but he doesn’t have some of the skills snowball has. Here’s my compare and contrast for them to Who is Snowball? Snowball is a pig who challenged Napoleon to control over animal farm.
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Kalinovka. As a young man he worked as a metalworker‚ before he joined the Bolsheviks in 1998. He moved up the party ranks rather quickly and became one of Stalin’s trusted advisors. In 1938‚ Khrushchev was sent to govern Ukraine and he served as a commissar during World War II. After Stalin’s death in 1953‚ there was a struggle for power and in 1956 Khrushchev’s "Secret Speech" was published. In the speech Khrushchev stated that he did not agree with the Great Purge even though he had helped Stalin
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incapable of holding onto power. However Trotsky’s excessive self-assurance and absorption in administration meant that he was not a man of the people consequently weakened his supremacy. At the time of Lenin’s death‚ Trotsky held the position of commissar for War‚ and was internationally
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STEPS TO REVOLUTION 1014 – 1917 Page 30 - 36 - War broke out against Germany in 1914 as a result the Tsar became more popular than he had been for years. This was because … Everyone united because of the mutual hatred towards Germany The Tsar worked closely with the Duma STEP 1: THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR AGAINST THE SOLDIERS Page 30 - Support was loss because of the defeat from the Germans - Over one million soldiers were killed or taken as a prisoner by the end of 1914 however this number increased
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In 1917 Lenin and the Bolsheviks‚ known as the Communists or Reds‚ had seized control over Petrograd and Moscow quite easily. However‚ they controlled only part of Russia and many groups opposed them. The Mensheviks‚ Social Revolutionaries and supporters of the Tsar said they had no right to rule. Collectively‚ these opponents became known as the Whites. The Whites were opposed to the Reds for two main reasons: they seized the land‚ property and factories of the well off and they attacked religious
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of Soviet Jews. There were orders from the higher ups in Hitler’s Germany that authorized the wholesale slaughter of civilians in the Eastern Front. There were two orders handed down from Major Weis of Police Battalion 309. The first order‚ the “commissar order” (Browning 11)‚ “all Communist functionaries in the army as well as those in the civil administration suspected
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