How important was Lenin in enabling the communist government to survive war and rebellion in the years 1918-1922. The communist government survived war and rebellion because of a variety of key figures including Lenin. However to say that Lenin was important is speculative, there were many events that occurred which Lenin didn’t contribute to which helped the communist government survive. It is possible to think that Lenin was not important in enabling the communist government to survive war and
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to distinguish between background factors and the precipitants of revolutionary action. Anachronistic socio-economic structures in war time Russia contributed to the start of the revolution. The Russian population was incredibly backwards and trapped within archaic structures. A whole 70% of the Russian population was illiterate. There was very little education, medical relief or general public health. This was compounded by widespread vodka addiction. They had only extremely primitive tools to work
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from opponents. In order to gain support, the Provisional Government planned an offensive on the Eastern Front - ‘June Offensive’ which was made against the Austro -Hungarian army, however the failure of this offensive lead to mass desertion by the Russian troops and the Provisional Government was greatly discredited meaning the Bolsheviks gained support. This was also have said to have led to the July Days, a large street
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Why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in 1917 and how did they consolidate their rule? The Bolsheviks mainly gained their power by using force and violence. During 1971 the Bolsheviks were quickly gaining popularity among the Russian people, they took control by attacking the unpopular, weak Provisional Government’s meeting place in the Winter Palace and then declared a new workers government, this was just one of the factors that led to the Bolsheviks success. A rise in popularity
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Offensive, having to share power with the Petrograd Soviet and the July Days. Alexander Kerensky played a great part in the collapse of the Provisional Government due to his actions after becoming Prime Minister in July 1917. Mass desertions from the Russian army caused by the failed June Offensive, lead to the replacement of Prince Lvov by Kerensky, right from the off he realised that the Provisional Government faced a variety of issues. For example, he did not end Russia’s involvement in the First World
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How far do you agree that Lenin’s leadership was the main reason for why the Bolsheviks were able to seize power in 1917. Lenin was a very significant figure during the Russian revolution, under his strong leadership and the advice of some of his advisors, Lenin helped the Bolsheviks come to power. However I would not agree that his leadership was the main reason to why the Bolsheviks were able to seize power as factors such as the weakness of the provisional government, the home front and most
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Standards Organizations June 15, 2015 James Mullen University of Phoenix Joseph Kaluzny NTC/409 Imagine if you will the amount of data that flows through our communication lines at any given time, you will still be counting long after my lifespan and beyond, there’s that much data. What we witness as everyday patrons who succumb to the thresholds in data communication restrictions if it were to run without direction, then all of our communication would experience extreme latency during
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Steven Weinberg: “Against Philosophy” (from “Dreams of a Final Theory”). Physicists get so much help from subjective and often vague aesthetic judgments that it might be expected that we would be helped also by philosophy, out of which after all our science evolved. Can philosophy give us any guidance toward a final theory? The value today of philosophy to physics seems to me to be something like the value of early nation-states to their peoples. It is only a small exaggeration to say that
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