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Karl Marx's "working class" of Russia. He claimed they would revolt and establish a socialist state.
Name of the political party led by Vladimir Lenin, took their name from the Russian word for "Majority". They believed professional revolutionaries from the intelligentsia would lead Russia's proletariat to revolution.
During the night of October 24th, Bolshevik soldiers quietly took control of bridges, telegraph, offices, railroad stations, and other key points in the city. The next morning Lenin announced that the government had been overthrown and that the Congress of Soviets had taken power. The All-Russian Congress of Soviets met in Petrograd on October 25th and by the end of the day, the Provisional Government had surrendered and become known as this.
Industrial class of owners that Karl Marx believed took advantage of the working class.
Operating secretly, especially against a ruling power.
Russia was both technologically and economically backwards compared to the rest of the world
Revolutionary NationalismTotalitarianismCrony Capitalism
Russia was unable to develop a form of government that was for the will of the people
The anti-communist civil war force included Russians who wanted to restore the monarchy supporters of the Provisional Goverment and capitalist democracy, and some mensheviks and Socialsit Revovlutionaries. They were aided by the Allies but were divided by geography and the causes for which they fought.
Democracy did not flourish during the interwar...
Levels of dictatorship took to totalitarians levels of control, one was...
In 1847, a worker's group called the Communist League commissioned ____________ and ___________________, both German philosophers, to come up with a plan to organize and improve the worker's situations.
and the world's first ________________ regime was established. In his dystopian novella, George Orwell creates fictional characters (who happen to be cleverly disguised as animals) who represent the actual people surrounding the events of the Russian Revolution.
Following a series of rebellions, in _____________________, the Bolsheviks led a revolution and successfully overthrew the tsarist regime and set up the new government of the __________________ (led by Lenin).
After the Nazis violated the pact in 1941, the Soviets joined the Allies to eject Hitler. This __________________________ dispelled freedom, forced labor, and caused general morose-all practices that remained under Stalin's control until his death in 1953. The U.S.S.R. was officially dissolved in 1991.
In 1924, Lenin died, which sparked a bitter battle for succession between ___________________-a strong follower of Marxist theory-and ______________________-head of the Communist Party. Stalin gained control, expelled Trotsky from the Communist Party, and ran him out of the country into permanent exile. In 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico.
From Marx's ideas, for it was Engels himself who gave credit to Marx for the Manifesto, a political party called the __________________ was formed, led by ______________________. At this time, Russia was led by Tsar Nicholas II, nicknamed Nicholas the Bloody, whose oppression and violent executions terrorized the poor, discontented populace.
In the mid-1800s, the _____________ system in Europe was thriving, unfortunately, at the expense of its people. Workers of all ages (including children, since there were no labor laws against it) toiled 14-16 hours a day for meager wages in unsafe conditions.
Their plan came to be known as _________________________, which argues that capitalism is unstable and revolution by the underclass is inevitable. It argues that social classes and uneven distribution of wealth will not disappear without revolution.
Stalin worked to establish rapid economic and industrial growth. However, this rapid growth was not well planned and resulted in the famine of 1932-1933, which caused millions of deaths. As the new, unopposed Russian leader, Stalin gained power and strength and used his influence to purge the country of all who opposed him. The secret police (which would later become the _____________) that he established, randomly arrested, tortured, and executed anyone who caused a problem for Stalin.