The Bolsheviks
Section by Alison Godbe
http://www.marxists.org/subject/bolsheviks/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik
In the Bolshevik party there were 21 central committee members and 10 candidate members. They were a Russian Social Democratic Labour Party that took power over Russia in 1917. After seizing power they changed their name to the All-Russian Communist Party. Bolshevik is a common synonym for Communist.(leader was Lenin)
The Russian Revolution
Section by Alison Godbe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917
The Russian Revolution was a political movement in 1917 to get rid of the current government that had replaced the Russian Tsar system. The Russian Revolution created the Soviet Union, which ended in 1991. The two parts of the Revolution are the February Revolution, where they got rid of the last Tsar of Russia, and the October revolution, where the Bolsheviks seized power.
Leon Trotsky
Section by Alison Godbe
http://www.fbuch.com/leon.htm
Lev Davidovich Bronstein, or Leon Trotsky, was born in 1879 in the Ukraine. When he was nine years old he moved to Odessa to get a good education. In 1896 he moved to Nicoleyev to study mathematics. In Nicoleyev, Trotsky turned revolutionary and founded the South Russia Workers Union and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. In 1900 Trotsky was deported to Siberia after being arrested and put in prison for his political activities. In 1902 Trotsky changed his name and escaped from Siberia to go to London and meet up with Lenin. Trotsky and Lenin, once joined together on the staff of the communist newspaper (Iskra), were soon separated when Lenin became the leader of the Bolsheviks and Trotsky became the Leader of the Mensheviks. When Trotsky returned to Russia in 1905 he became a very active leader in the Revolution and even became the president of the St Petersburg Soviet. Trotsky and many other leaders of St Petersburg were arrested and once again sent to Siberia. Trotsky once again escaped Siberia and met up with Stalin in London. For the next few years he was publishing papers such as the Pravda. Trotsky then returned to Russia and became second in command to Lenin in the Bolshevik party. He later became the People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and he even founded the Red Army. After Lenin’s death, Stalin was put in control of the Soviet Union. Stalin disliked Trotsky, therefore, he expelled him from the Excecutive Committe of Comintern, banished him to Alma Ata in Kazakhstan, and then in 1929 deported him to Turkey. Trotsky had an opposite idea of communism than Stalin. He used his writings to go against Stalin’s ideas and collect followers that agreed with his own thoughts on communism. His followers were known as the Trotskyists. One man, Diego Rivera, greatly supported Trotsky and helped him create a home in Mexico after Trotsky had trouble finding a country because he was a communist leader banned from his homeland. In 1940, a follower of Stalin attacked Trotsky in his office with an ice-axe. The next day Trotsky died.
Communism
Section written by Ryan Velarde
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/communism
- Communism- A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
Totalitarianism
Section written by Ryan Velarde
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/totalitarian
- Totalitarianism- Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed.
- Communism and totalitarianism both have the government in total control over all aspects of life.
Karl Marx and his philosophies
Section written by Ryan Velarde
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html
· Karl Marx was a philosopher who lived from 1818-1883. While he was in Brussels he predicted the collapse of industrial capitalism and the beginning of communism. He wrote many books on Communism and Philosophy. He also wrote many books on events that were going on in the world. He is said to be the greatest thinker. He discovered the law of development of human history. He made discoveries in every field that he studied. His goal in life was to make a contribution and get the Capitalist society out and a new one in.
Czar Nicholas II
Section written by Ryan Velarde
http://www.worldwar1.com/biorczar.htm
· Czar Nicholas II lived from 1869-1918 in Russia. He was a very smart and well educated person who was in the high class. He was secluded from the outside world so he had no idea how people lived. He was heir to the throne, but he did not think that he was ready to rule Russia. He was Czar of Russia. Other than his wife he was very lonely. He did not want anything to happen to his country or family and he knew he was a big target for assassination. He was thought of as a failure because he always hesitated on decisions and did not know what was wrong or right for his country. After World War I began Czar took command of the army and left the government. During the war the government and country fell apart. Czar and his family were shot to death in July of 1918
Valdimir Lenin
Section by Hugo Ramirez
Source: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/sw/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1939/1939-lenin02.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/bio/timeline.htm
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir was born in April 1870. He has a some what difficult adolescence. His father dies when Vladimir is only 16 and a year later his brother was executed. This man was a writer. He argued that capitalism was not the way that the country should have been run. He also thought that there should be time spent on focusing on a new party of a new type. The main focus of this was to have something that the working class could have and it would be a great revolution. This all lead to what makes him famous or one of his most famous works, “vanguard of the proletariat.” The book is also considered to be a somewhat attack on the Revisionism. This man was very active in politics during his life, for example he was in social groups as the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, Second Congress of the RSDLP, and a couple more. This man accomplished many things and many works or books in his life time. Valdimir Lenin had a part in many of the political aspects of Russia and he used his works/books and his words to his advantages and do to that he was able to have a voice. When the Soviet government was formed Lenin was the Chairman and one of the first things he does with his new power is dissolve the Constituent Assembly, and ends hostilities with Germany. Sadly he died because of his 4th stroke and his body could not take it.
Propaganda during Stalin’s time
Section by Hugo Ramirez
Source:
http://www.dickinson.edu/~history/dictators/stalin_dictator1.html
Propaganda during Stalin’s time
Stalin political career has been very controversial and many historians fought over how he ran the government in the early 1900’. In 1917 Stalin gained the position of the people’s commissar for nationalities. He was one of the people Lenin would first look to fir this position. He held that position in the government for about 4 years from 1919 to about 1923. Stalin was able to bring jobs and opportunities to people when there was no hope.
As Stalin was trying to change his organization into a source of politic power, he and his leader go in to many minor political issues. Stalin’s basic agenda was, “socialism in one country”. Stalin thought that it would be easier and better if they just used his idea which was to only take it one country at a time so that we could make it work. Stalin used propaganda to his advantage after Lenin died. He trued against his friends and rivals and once he did that, then he gained power and control. Declaring that he was Lenin’s disciple was a great advantage to him and that is how he gained control. Once Stalin used power he thought that fear and violence was the one way or the necessary element in keep peace and to contract socialism. He thought that dictatorship was the only way that things would work in the country to reach socialism or democracy. He also killed millions of people and ruled with a strong hand.
Stalin’s Purges
Section by Hugo Ramirez
Source:
http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html
http://www.dickinson.edu/~history/dictators/stalin_dictator1.html
Stalin’s Purges
Stalin was the supreme leader of the Soviet Union. The world recognizes that the purges that happened during Stains rule were horrible and one of the worlds most extreme cases of genocide and gendercide ever. With Stalin’s Purges came these concentration camps inside the country and were very harsh and dangers to the nation. In some cases most of the men in the town were rounded up and then arrested and or probable sentenced to death. Police would surround them and then accuse every single on of them from the ages 16 to 60 with sabotage. In addition, more then likely they would go to jail or die. This mass terror did not just affect the men. The wives suffered as well, they only counted for a small part. They were still hardship for them though, they mostly lost there jobs there rooms, and their permits to sell possessions. In some cases they moved in or asked for help from there relatives. 7 million Purge victims came from labor/death camps, and theta is not counting the hundred thousands of who where killed and just slaughtered outright. All and all this time was a very depressing and fritting time for any one that lived near Stanly rule.
Stalin’s Five year plans
Section by Hugo Ramirez
Source:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Stalin.htm
Stalin’s Five-year plans
Stalin’s five year plan mainly focused on the idea of giving the state all the power, and in which they could tell the industries what to produce when to produce it and where to send it. This organization was called Gosplan was created to plan the whole situation out. The first five years where from 1928-1932 then 1933-1937 and finally from 1938 to 1941 until the war interrupted it. The main goals were to improve industries such as coal, oil iron and steel and electricity.
Josef Stalin
Section written by Lauren Totoris
Source: http://www.toy-soldier-gallery.com/Articles/Stalin/Stalin.html
Here is the information about Josef Stalin. Josef Stalin?s original name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He changed it in 1910. He was originally from the Republic of Georgia and his parents did not speak Russian, but Stalin later learned the language in school. He looked into many careers and jobs. He learned about priesthood, and read the literate Karl Max wrote. Stalin later became a propagandist for the Social-Democratic party. In 1902 he went to prison and then was exiled to Siberia. In 1904, he married his first wife Yekaterina Svanidze, but she died in 1910. He was arrested a total of eight time. Six of those times, he escaped. Then in 1905 through 1917 started his political life. People never expected him to be a leader but to be a follower in the high ups of a political party. Stalin was involved in the Bolshevik area of his political party. He helped with a bank holdup in which Lenin, the president of Russia at that time, knew about and was planning with him. Stalin became the Secretary General in 1922. He was leader during the WWII and made the USSR suffer very much. He was also very against Jews and wanted to spread Communism everywhere.
Russian Orthodox Church during Stalin?s time
Section written by Lauren Totoris
Source: http://russian-crafts.com/customs/russian-church-history.html
Here is the information for the Russian Orthodox Church during Stalin?s time. During WWII, the church became the country?s ?moral force.? To do this, Stalin released all of the priests and bishops from the prison and made the church open all of the time. It helped Russia very much during this time and supported many groups to help the cause.
The Cheka (Stalin?s Secret Police)
Section written by Lauren Totoris
Source: http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/secret.html
Here is the information about the Cheka (Stalin?s Secret Police). The Cheka were the police only for Stalin and did not go by all of the rules. They were the ones who were always by Stalin?s side no matter what. They were pure communists as well and did whatever Stalin told them to do.
The main ideas of these things
-Carl marks worte a book the communist manifesto.
-its like a list and a how to book heres how to make communizum
-it wasn’t his idea. But he is credited for putting it all together.
-Czar was terrible leader
-grew up in total seclution and grew up not nowing the out side world
-because of his bad rain people are startving and people just don’t get it
-Then they make him step down and kill him
-and Russia is lost for a while
-Lenin reads a lot of Marks
-gets exiled
-gets involved with the Bulshuvics a political party
-Through them he leads the Russian revolution
-and with taking over Russia he also brings to it communisum.
-He was a Hero or considered a Hero
-changes that country into the super power
-First to launch a satile light
-and equal world power to U.S. for a long time
-thanks to Lenin
-when he dies he dies of his 4th stroke and it was very unexpected.
-Both Stalin and Trutskey had different ideas
-stalin industrial revolution
-trutskey was for the people
-When he did that Stalin became in power for a long time and wiped out tens of thousands every year
-and considered one of the ruthless dictators
-Hitler was nothing gcompared to Stalin
-his five year plan worked and they then became a modern super power.
-and he was killing people while this all was going on
-Stalins secreat police the cheka turned into the KGB
-they went around doing Stalins dirty work
-public trials take this person and tell them to admit to these crimes and to end the torcher.
-A tolaitarian state and what is communisum.
Lenin-keeping the school
Marks-intoduces everything to them and but both Lenin and Marks are old major.
Czar nichalis-is jones and doesn’t know whats going on and doesn’t feed the animals. A lot of his characteristics come out
Truartskey-is our snowball/he becomes the person who is getting balmed.
Nepolan-is clearly our Stalin/this is what happened in Russia and let it happen and at time s where convinced about it.
Bolshuvics-They were the government which equaled the pigs. They lead the revolution and for the most part took over.
Five year plan-windmill is equal to the five year plan and the promises them heat and hot and cold water and things like that.
The Idea of communism works in the idea that in the end it helps everyone
Purges-the animal meeting where everyone is killed or most people are.
Squealer-propoganda, when things are bad Squealer tells us there good.
Boxer and clover- boxer is the proletariat or the simply means the lower class peasants and he buy’s into it and because he buy’s into it he works the hardest. Perfect communist worker.
Moses-is religion/religion is the opiate of the masses. Marks Big quote. It makes people feel better and helps everyone forget there worries. It is a drug a stimulate. The first thing the communist tore down all the religion. Sugar candy mountain is heaven. Place where animals go when they die and all they do all day is eat. Stalin used religion in the sense that they would not think of there lives.
Sheep-tell them what you want them to know. Mindless masses brain washing conditioning.
Benjamin-He’s a realist. He’s always the same. He’s going to work the same before that they are going to do.
Cat-only shows up when theres time to eat never for work. The cat takes advantage of communism. Hes the pit fall and loop whole of communism. All animals are equal so they can’t not feed it.
Molly-in Russia was rich. Who leaves when communism starts up. Her ribbons and sugar are her luxary.
Whymper-he is a capitalist he sees the opertunity for money so he does it.
Fredrick-Germany Neabor of Russia and the neighbor of animal
Perkinton- Brtitan and England. Is the part where they did not really care and hands off worried about the luxury.
