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People of the Russian Revolution

People of the Russian Revolution. Vladimir Lennin. Considered by some to be the most significant political leader of the 20 th century Known as the greatest revolutionary leader ever Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution

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People of the Russian Revolution

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  1. People of the Russian Revolution

  2. Vladimir Lennin • Considered by some to be the most significant political leader of the 20th century • Known as the greatest revolutionary leader ever • Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution • Supported the idea that their can be a political movement based on social justice

  3. Karl Marx • Published the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels • German philosopher • Predicted a violent and bloody revolution by 1900

  4. Joseph Stalin • Became the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union • Killed millions of people • Overcame political rivals in The Soviet Union

  5. Leon Trotsky • Exiled to Siberia because of his revolutionary activities • Leader of the anti-Stalinist opposition until he was assassinated by a Stalinist agent • Leader of the October Revolution (1917)

  6. Czar Nicolas II • Failed to produce supplies to the Russian People • Him and his family was executed July of 1918 by a Communist and Bolshevik firing squad

  7. Bolsheviks • Becomes the Communist Party of the Soviet Union • Come to power during the October Revolution • Founded by Vladimir Lenin • Leon Trotsky challenged Lenin’s leadership of the party

  8. White Russians • The direct opposition of the Red Army • Believed in a multinational Russia • Anti-Semitic group/believed in racial superiority • Supported the monarchy • Fought against the Bolsheviks

  9. Proletariat • A citizen of the lowest class • Urban workers • Wage workers • Marxism theory: bourgeoisie would always be in conflict with the Proletariat • Bourgeoisie: the capitalist class/business owners/wage distributors

  10. Communism • A revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political, and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order

  11. Socialism • Is an economic system characterized by social ownership and control of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy, and a political philosophy advocating such a system.

  12. Totalitarianism • Is a political system where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible

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