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…I. Overview, What were the aims of Soviet foreign policy under Lenin? -<Tab/>In the new Bolshevik government Trotsky was made Commissar of Foreign Affairs. -<Tab/>Taking Russia out of the First World War had been a major…

…Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, the daughter of a former Russian soldier. We’ll just call her Nadya though. She became very interested by Lenin and they began to meet quite often. He was anxious to learn about what she knew about the workers, and he…

…Russia to continue his revolutionary activities abroad. LENIN'S POLITICAL ACTIVITIES In 1903, at a meeting of the Russian Social Democratic Labor party held in London, the party split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, headed by Lenin, and the Mensheviks…

…this problem, Leninism proposes two possible solutions. One option would be for the revolution in the underdeveloped country to spark off a revolution in a developed capitalist nation (for example, Lenin hoped the Russian Revolution would spark a revolution…

…Vladimir Lenin, a political leader of the Russian revolution was born on the 20th of April 1870, in the Russian town of Simbirisk. His real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He was the third child in a family of six. His father was a school inspector…

…Key points of essay; (for revision purposes) 1. Trotsky and the red army 2. Weakness of the White armies 3. War Communism 4. Attitude of the peasants 5. Propaganda 6. Red terror- Cheka 7. Allied Withdrawal Juring the Russian civil war Leon Trotsky…

…Reds, and the anti-Communists, called Whites, who had help from Western nations (Johnson 43). This help from outside Russia actually helped Lenin, as it drove public sentiment against the Whites. Russian troops, scattered and dispirited, had just been…

…investigation is how far was this regime of terror a new entity in the Soviet Union or how far it was a continuation the state set up by Lenin after the Russian revolution in 1917. The regime set up by Lenin did have a secret police, the Cheka…

…step of the continuum which Marx believed. In the Russian Communist Revolution, these conflicts were the bread riots and the workers' strike of St. Petersburg in 1917. Lenin believed that the continuum that Marx preached and therefore he believed…

…The Rise of Communism in Russia Unless we accept the claim that Lenin's coup that gave birth to an entirely new state, and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind, we must recognize in today's Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians…