Transcript Vladimir lenin - Mrs. Stratton's IB 20th Century World History

VLADIMIR
LENIN
MAYKELIN RIVERA & ERICA GARCIA 
ANALYSIS QUESTION
Analyze the methods used by a totalitarian regime to
maintain power.
EARLY LIFE OF LENIN
He was born as Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, he didn’t adopt the last name
Lenin until 1901 while doing underground party work.
Lenin was born in Simbirsk on the Volga River in April 21, 1870. Third of 6
children.
He excelled in school and went on to study law in 1887, the same year his
brother was executed. His time at Kazan University was short because he
was expelled for taking part in a student demonstration.
Two events in particular shaped his life:
1.
His father died in 1887. That year marked a turning point for
young Lenin and in a lot of ways determined his path as
future revolutionary.
2.
Lenin’s older brother, Aleksandr, a university student at the
time, was arrested and executed for being part of a group
planning to assassinate Emperor Alexander III. In 1891.
BECOMING A RADICAL
Lenin received his law degree in 1892. He moved to the city
of Samara and took a position as a lawyer's assistant.
In the mid-1890s Lenin quit his law practice in Samara and
settled in St. Petersburg. There he became associated with a
group of radicals who were similarly impressed by the ideas
of Marx and the influential Russian Marxist Georgy
Plekhanov.
He grouped members into six member cells. By this means
industrial conditions were investigated, statistics compiled
and pamphlets written. It was also through these groups that
he met his future wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, who he married
in 1898.
In 1895, Lenin was arrested, imprisoned, and sent into exile
to Siberia with other members of the Marxist organization
known as the Union of the Struggle.
REVOLUTIONARY
MOVEMENT
Lenin went abroad in 1900 and with George Plekhanov and
others organized the clandestine newspaper Iskra (The
Spark), designed to ignite the revolutionary movement.
In Iskra Lenin rejected the notion of any kind of political
alliance with liberals or other elements of the bourgeoisie
and stressed the importance of social, rather than political,
democracy, as the basis for individual freedom.
RISE TO POWER
1917 was to finally see the revolution in Russia. In fact two
revolutions occurred in this year.
In March steelworkers in St. Petersburg went on strike. It
grew until thousands of people lined the streets. The Tsar's
power collapsed and the Duma, led by Alexander Kerensky,
took power.
Lenin made a deal with the Germans; if they could get him
safely back to Russia, he would take power and pull Russia
out of the war. Kerensky was to fall over this same issue.
LENIN IN POWER
Assisted by the Germans, who hoped that he would
undermine the Russian war effort, Lenin returned home and
started working against the provisional government that had
overthrown the tsarist regime.
He refused to take Russia out a war in which they were
suffering severe losses and causing brutal hardship at home.
Lenin came to power in October after a nearly bloodless
coup.
OCTOBER
REVOLUTION
He eventually led what was soon to be known as the October
Revolution. Almost three years of civil war followed.
The Bolsheviks were victorious and assumed total control of the
country. During this period of revolution, war and famine, Lenin
demonstrated a chilling disregard for the sufferings of his fellow
countrymen and mercilessly crushed any opposition.
LENIN IN POWER
The policies of War Communism led to significant declines in
Russia's agricultural and industrial output.
At the Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party, held
in March, Lenin introduced a policy of economic
liberalization known as the New Economic Policy (NEP). The
policy signified a temporary retreat from Lenin's goal of
transforming the Soviet economy into a fully communist one.
Land was redistributed, some as collective farms. Factories,
mines, banks and utilities were all taken over by the state.
The Russian Orthodox Church was disestablished.
LENIN’S LEGEND
Lenin was one of the foremost revolutionary leaders of the
20th century. As a politician, he was characterized by
remarkable determination, ruthlessness, and sometimes
cruelty.
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