Russian Revolution Russian Civil War Reds Whites Lenin Stalin Trotsky Communism Ideologies

several days of demonstrations in Petrograd (formally St Petersburg) the government orders troops to open fire.

The next day these troops mutiny Tsar resigns when he hears that

Moscow too has joined the Revolution.

February Revolution

April 20 - 21 (The April Days): Opposition to the Foreign Minister Milyukov boils over due to his refusal to renounce annexations.

May: Milyukov resigns. Members of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries join the government.

June 3: First All-Russia Congress of Workers and Soldiers Soviets opens.

June 18: Offensive launched by Russia against Austria Hungary. July 3 - 4: (The July Days.)Workers and soldiers in Petrograd demand

the Soviet takes power. Trotsky arrested. Lenin goes into hiding. A new provisional government is set up with

Kerensky at it's head (8th). August: The Kornilov takeover. An attempt by General Kornilov to

establish a right wing dictatorship Chernov the leader of the Socialist Revolutionaries resigns from the

government denouncing Kerensky for complicity in the plot. Sept: The Bolsheviks win control of the Petrograd Soviet. In the countryside peasant seizure of land from the higher class

continues and reaches the level of near insurrection in Tambov.

Oct: The Bolsheviks overthrow the Provisional government

Oct 26/27: Soviet proclamations on land and peace.

Nov 2: Bolsheviks gain Moscow Nov 7: Ukraine proclaimed independent by the

Central Rada. Nov 12-14; Elections to the Constituent Assembly.

Socialist Revolutionaries the largest party. Dec: Congress of Socialist Revolutionaries results in

victory for the left under Chernov. Likewise Menshevik Congress gives victory to Martov's Menshevik internationalists.

Whites and Reds Stalin vs. Lenin Communism vs. Bolshevik Communism Whites, attacked across the Urals from Siberia Reds, rebuffed these attacks, and survived,

and by late 1920 had driven the Whites back into the Black Sea, the Baltic and the Pacific

This caused hundreds of thousands of White soldiers and civilians to emigrate

Trotsky was able to build a Red Army more effective than, the experienced White generals

Lenin Bolshevik Communism Controlled Petrograd, Moscow and the

central Russian heartland Took advantage of internal lines of

communication, utilized the railways, arsenals and the economy of the most populous provinces of the former empire

managed to arm, man and maneuver an army of about five million soldiers, by 1921

used terror most ruthlessly

Stalin Communism Controlled rest of Russia never commanded forces totalling more than

250,000 men separated from each other by huge distances based around the less developed peripheries

of Russia. underestimated the Bolsheviks' capacity to

resist exhibited only brutality, venality, disorder

and a lack of political and military direction

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Birth: April 22, 1870 Death: January 21, 1924 Place of Birth: Simbirsk, Russia Term: 1918-1924 Developed techniques for recruiting and

training a disciplined professional revolutionary party

creating a model that influenced revolutions in China and Cuba

1895: Was jailed for his involvement in organizing Marxist activities 15 months in prison, then was sentenced to three years of exile 1903: Created a rift at the Second Congress of the Russian Social

Democratic Labor Party by insisting that membership be limited to a small core

his supporters were thereafter known as Bolsheviks, his opponents known as Mensheviks

1917: Convinced a majority of the Bolsheviks to seize power from the provisional government

founded the Socialist state, and formed a coalition government with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries

1918 Split with the Left Social Revolutionaries and renamed the Bolsheviks the Russian Communist Party

launched the Red Terror, a campaign to eliminate political opponents among the civilian population;

survived an assassination attempt Did you know: Saint Petersburg was known as Leningrad from 1924

to 1991, when it was renamed after the collapse of the Communist government.

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Date Baptized: December 21,1879

Death: March 5, 1953 Place of Birth: Gori, Georgia Term:1922-1953 Establishing the USSR as a modern

economic and military power that repelled Hitler's armies in World War II and rivaled the United States during the Cold War period

1899: Quit religious studies to join the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy

1903: Joined Lenin's militant Bolshevik faction after the split of the Social Democratic Labor Party

1928-1929 Initiated a policy of violently taking the lands of farmers, killing agricultural wealth to support industrialization

1941: Assumed control of the military after Germany invaded the USSR during World War II

Did you Know: As a rebellious youth, he was nicknamed Koba, the name of a notorious Georgian bandit and rebel, before he took the name Stalin

The Russian word Stalin means 'man of steel' The Russian city of Volgograd, renamed Stalingrad

during Stalin's reign, was changed back to the former in 1961

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Birth: November 8, 1879 Death: August 21, 1940 Place of Birth: Yanovka,

Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire)

Played primary role in the organization of the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917

oversaw the taking of power by the Bolsheviks

organized the Red Army during the resulting civil war

1898: Was arrested and jailed in Odessa, exiled to Siberia for his involvement in the founding and activities of

the South Russian Workers' Union 1902: Escaped from exile and fled to London he joined Lenin and other Russian Social Democrats in the publication

of Iskra (The Spark) 1905: Returned to Saint Petersburg to organize soviets (workers'

collectives) and lead the socialist workers' movement was quickly arrested for his activities 1917: Joined the Bolsheviks after dropping his opposition to Lenin's

demand for an exclusive party became a member of the Central Committee, lead preparations for

the Bolsheviks to seize power 1918-1921: Organized the Red Army, incorporating former officers

from the imperial army, and led them to victory in the Russian Civil War

1924: Struggled against Joseph Stalin for control of the USSR after the death of Lenin

1927: Expelled from the Communist Party for his opposition to Stalin, and was expelled from the USSR two years later

Did you Know: In 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City by an agent of Stalin who posed as an admirer, then killed him with a pickaxe.

Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein.

He first used the name Trotsky on a false passport when he escaped from jail in Odessa.

Biggest communists: Fidel Castro, Lenin, Stalin and Mao

 A communist is a follower of communism. Communism is anyway a theory which argues with ideologies critically, because they are to his opinion after only product of economic ownership structures. The communism would want social change in favour of a classless society fight by revolution. Besides, the revolutionising subject is the working class which will represent by a group of occupational revolutionaries, for a communist himself in claim takes the interests of the working class to represent.

However, the communism is at the same time a certain view about how the history has run off. For communistic changes in the history, i.e. wars, developments, revolutions are always an origin of class conflicts. The concept of the class society is central anyhow in the communism and penetrates their vocabulary. The communist is worldwide in the deepest internal one a humanist and Fighting against exploitation and suppression of wage earners, all the same which race, which religion or which gender. Today many communists consider in the attempts to realise the communism a betrayal in the original ideas Marx' and Engel’s.

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