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    Emma McKnight English 1A Professor Valdes October 30th, 2017 The Effects of Vladimir Lenin on Russia Weak and unstable in its revolution and a battle on the Eastern Front, Communism weeded its way into Russia and changed the lives of millions of people. Under the influence of Lenin and his principles events such as the Red Terror, overall famine, and slave labor camps became the country’s reality. Russia participation in the war may have been stopped, but the consequences were much greater. However

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    Describing Lenin " A cruel tyrant, bloodthirsty and ruthless in his determination to seize and hold on to power" " He devoted his whole life to the interests of working people and to the building of a better society." Which of these two descriptions of Lenin do you think is closes to the truth. After several uprisings, demonstrations and a coup attempt, finally by mid

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    CCOT In Russia, at the end of the 19th century, leaders Nicholas II, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin to the attempt to the industrialization of Russia. Although the goals for the economy were the same, the way Nicholas, Lenin, and Stalin addressed the situation differed completely. Nicholas II, took as capitalism approach in order to help the industrialization of Russia. In 1894, Nicholas wanted the country's trade and industry to be collected by private owners for power. Nicholas was a very poor

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    What was the Russian government under Lenin like? What kinds of tasks did it attempt to achieve: Vladimir Lenin chose the timing of the communist takeover perfectly. The Russians were so tired of fighting that when the takeover took place it faced hardly any resistance. The problem was that this passive demeanor wouldn't last long. Communism is such a radical jump of ideologies you cannot expect everyone to suddenly embrace it with open arms. Consequently, this led to the Bolsheviks becoming dictators

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    The October Revolution has also been called the Bolshevik Revolution since the Bolshevik Party played a crucial role in the revolution. The leader of the Bolshevik Party, Vladimir Lenin was a big supporter of Karl Marx. Another Marxist who leads this revolution was Leon Trotsky. In an article by the History.com Staff, “Lenin had created an, almost, bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government.” (“Russian Revolution”). The Bolshevik revolution started when, Alexander Kerensky, rather than

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    Good Bye Lenin Symbolism

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    Within the film, Good Bye, Lenin!, the transition from a Socialist society to a post-Socialist nation can be seen in the film’s utilization of symbolism. Symbolism used within the film can be understood as reflective of the actual lives of German citizens, and from this imagery, the transition to post-Socialism can be analyzed as bittersweet. Good Bye, Lenin! portrayed the conditioning of Socialist citizens by politicians, the citizens’ reliance on governmental support, the westernization of East

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    Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist, revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. Born as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, I will share information on his life, his beliefs, changes he made to his nation and the effects of these changes.    Lenin was born April 22, 1870, in Simbirsk, Russia. He was born into a wealthy middle class family with six other siblings. Growing up, education was a huge part of his childhood. He finished first in his high school class and had a huge love for Latin and Greek

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    The Policies of Lenin and Stalin Essay

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    (such as Pipes), along with the official Soviet historians of the time believed that Stalin was the natural heir of Lenin, opinions have changed with time. As more evidence came out of Stalin’s mass atrocities, the Soviet historians soon began to see Stalin as the betrayer of the revolution as Trotsky had always maintained,

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    Vladimir Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as simply Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary leader and founder of the Soviet Union and the Marxism–Leninism political ideology. He was born on April 22, 1870 in Ulyanovsk, a very small town in a western-central district in the Russian Empire. He was the third of six children of a Russu-German couple, some of which ended up initiating controversial political stir-ups against the Tsar at the time. Growing up, he and his family, like most Russians

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    Vladimir Lenin and Old Major both are two respected figures among their own kinds. They both have strong beliefs where everyone should be equal in all ways. Their main goals was to eliminate the consumers of their products who does no work and restore equality. In Lenin’s speech and Old Major’s speech in the book Animal Farm by George Orwell, they both state their beliefs of Communism and Animalism. In both Lenin and Old Major’s Speech, they believe that there is one cause why workers suffer, the

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