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Lenin
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After one protest demonstration he was arrested and taken to the local police
station. One of the police officers asked:
"Why are you rebelling, young man? After all, there is a wall in front of you."
"The wall is tottering, you only have to push it for it to fall over.
University expels Ulyanov but says: if you can pass the exams well give you a degree,
but you cant come to classes. One year later Lenin takes the exams for the 4 year law courses and
aces all! University has to give degree .
Ulyanov
offer to smuggle Lenin back to Russia. Even provide him with train ride!
http://www.sporen.nl/posters/poster5/Lenin.jpg
Can you guess what are the 3 things that the Russian people want?
http://www.vor.ru/English/centuries/centuries_29.html
6,800 officers,
54,000 men,
2,400 guns,
5,000 machine-guns,
8,000 railway trucks,
8,000 locomotives,
128,000 rifles &
2 million rounds of ammo)
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Result.
Sothe people have their 3 wishes, the tsar has given up and Leninism
means everyone will share and everything will be perfect, right? Well,
theres still one major problem.any guesses?
What about the tsar supporters? (want to return to old ways)
Rich nobility? (want land back)
Politicians (want power too)
Allies (USA/England, etc.communism?!!! Russia, then what?
Result
CIVIL WAR!!!
Bolshevik Communists
(Red Army)
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Lenins attitude...
When Lenin was told the soviets had abolished the
death penalty he stated:
How can you make a revolution without executions?
Romanov Family...
What to do with Nicholas, Alexandra
and children?
http://www.angelfire.com/biz5/romanovs/index.html
ROMANOV FAMILY
In the beginning left alone.
Eventually house arrest
Then Lenin decides that they must be shot.
According to Trotsky:
The decision [to kill the imperial family] was not only
expedient but necessary. The severity of this punishment
showed everyone that we would continue to fight
on mercilessly, stopping at nothing. The execution
of the Tsar's family was needed not only in order to
frighten, horrify, and instill a sense of hopelessness
in the enemy but also to shake up our own ranks,
to show that there was no turning back, that ahead
lay either total victory or total doom. This Lenin sensed well.
ROMANOV FAMILY
Romanov family brought to a house in Ekatrinebourg,
shoved into a cellar, then shot. After a number of rounds
were fired into the family, a soldier bayoneted those remaining alive.
Bodies were reportedly burned
in acid, then thrown into a mine shaft
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/ROMAN/ROMANOV.HTM
Bolshevik Communists
(Red Army)
By 1920 Civil war is over, Red Army has won, but at severe
costs to Russia.
Drastic measures must be taken, including War communism/NEP
New Economic Policy:
Peasants allowed to make profit by selling extra goods??!!!???
Change name of country to U.S.S.R.
Lenin dies
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Now what????
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Military genius/intellectual
Organized revolution for Lenin
Worried about communism beginning in Russia first
(Supposed to happen in industrialized countries)
Goal--> provide $, support, etc. to get small colonies
of industrialized countries to revolt .
Eventually lead to worldwide permanent revolution
Communist Idealist
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Trotsky
Hardliner/Propogandist
Political organizer/connections
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Stalin
Communist Realist
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