As Lenin was gaining control Peace with Germany had been established however, war continued within Russia. Forces loyal to the Nicholas II and Anti-communist gathered strength to oppose Lenin. During the war between the White and Red Armies the White forces gained support from the Western Allies during an internal war. However, during the civil war Lenin imposed War Communism, to ensure victory. Lenin saw the need to stabilize the government and country by eliminating people who did not support the revolution. He had people on the inside and outside of the party eliminated to ensure his success of the communist takeover. Lenin thought the idea of war communism had begun to receive opposition from other communist and the harsh treatment of
This resulted in the break out of the Russian Civil War between the communist “reds”
He ended up resorting to “war communism” during the Russian Civil War, and the Bolsheviks needed to quickly produce goods. When the war was over, Lenin became sick and Trotsky began ruling after him. Trotsky took the role of controlling the corrective measures
The Russian Revolution of 1917 marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin seized power and destroyed the tradition of czarist rule. Civil War broke out in Russia between the Red and White Armies. The Red Army fought for the Lenin’s Bolshevik government. The White Army represented a large group of monarchists, capitalists and supporters of democratic socialism.
One man, Vladimir Lenin saw that Russia was spiraling downwards, having lost two battles in a row and having the highest death count out of all the European countries he saw that a change was needed. Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks who were a communist group that wanted to draw out of the war and over thrown Czar Nicholas II. Preaching peace, and food he wanted, ¨the offer of peace, the salvation of Petrograd, salvation from famine, and the transfer of land to the peasants who depended on them,¨ (Document 8). People were drawn into this and, ¨increasingly taken in by the propagandists of the united Socialist Party and their internationalis ideas,¨ (Document 9). This combined with high death rates, starvation, communist ideals started the overthrow of Russia and the end of the war.
The BOLSHEVIKS regime was in a unstable state because Russia was in a shape of civil war, which was started by the white Russians this predicament was made even worse because European countries were invading Russia.
The Bolsheviks took power and established the communist party who were opposed to Imperialism and capitalism. Initially, this caused problems, as the Russian Empire was composed of people of many different nationalities. Nevertheless, the people did not want to be considered
Lenin continued to give Stalin power and the people could not do anything to stop it. After Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin had complete control over the communist party. By the late 1920s, he was the dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin kept finding way to get more power and the people were not able to do anything to fix
However, the question of whether he was a hero who toppled an oppressive tyranny, or a villain who replaced it with another remains a controversial one today. In 1917, Lenin helped overthrow the Russian tsar Nicholas II, and founded the Soviet Union. On October 1917, after the victory of the Russian Revolution, Lenin did not have a clear image on socialism, or how it meant to be built. He was, however, able to state the three principal characteristics of socialism, which were the public ownership of the means of production, an end to exploitation, and the dictatorship of the proletariat. He did not take action on these points, and did not devote much attention to socialism as he felt it was not yet an immediate issue.
The Bolsheviks were able to win the civil war because the White Army, were made up of many independent groups and generals (there was poor communication between them), and the Bolsheviks had stronger armies, more advantages from the land and civilians, and the Bolsheviks had 3 amazing leaders to lead the way to victory. The Russian Civil War lasted from October 1917 to October 1922. At the very beginning, the Bolsheviks claimed the land of Petrograd, Moscow, and the area between the two cities. This was a great start for the Bolsheviks, knowing they captured the capital first. However, the Mensheviks, did not have a common leader throughout all of its armies, instead they had a variety of generals with varying amounts of experience.
The Russian Civil War was to destroy Russia for a long time, between 1918 and 1921. The civil war occurred because after November 1917, many groups had structured that restricted Lenin’s Bolsheviks, and these crowds included monarchists, militarists, and foreign nations. Generally, they were known as the Whites while the Bolsheviks were known as the Red. At the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks just effectively controlled Petrograd, Moscow, and the domain between both communities.
The Russian Revolution did not meet its goals under Stalin's rule because he gave all power to himself. Stalin turned the Soviet Union into a totalitarian state which is a one party dictatorship that controls every component of the society. He sensored all information that was put out to make sure the soviet union looked good. He controlled art so it showed only positives to communism. Anybody who criticized the government would be taken by the secret police.
“Leninism is constituted, above all, as a more or less systematic set of orientations towards the seizure of state power, the conceptualization of the post-revolutionary proletarian state, and the exercise of state power (Vanaik1995, 3076)”. When Lenin took power in 1917, he did so in believing that the new government in charge was not worthy to take over Russia. However, the new government that overthrew the emperor of Russia was a democratic one. By the time of Lenin's death “soviet democracy no longer existed” the people had been forced into a new form of government one ruled by the state (Vanaik 1995, 3076). Marx did not want to force any group or state into Communism, he believed that the mass would they would rise up and take control.
In 1918, red won the civil war against white. Red was Bolshevik that was led by Lenin, and White was organisation that people who didn’t support Bolshevik made. So White was opponent of red. Actually the war stated by accident, but its size got bigger and bigger.
In some circumstances, Lenin made accusations, won wars greatly, and was treated as a threat in fear that he might start a World War III. Although he was treated like a great and dangerous person of higher power, Lenin had also gave improvement to life in Russia since his revolution in
There were three substantial reasons to why Bolsheviks won the civil war. The first was weakness and disunited nature of whites, secondly the introduction of Cheka and finally, the most important was the party’s leadership. Party’s leadership which lead Bolsheviks to the victory and the other reasons were of help but not as much as the leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. The whites were the main opposition of the Bolsheviks (red army). The white party faced many problems which caused them to be military and politically weak.