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What was the impact of the bolshevik revolution on the War and Peace how did the allies respond to the Bolsheviks who came to power in Russia in october 1917?
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From what I remember, when the Bolsheviks took power in October, 1917, they immediately began peace-talks with Germany. The Russian people had incurred significant losses and the Tsar himself had become the avatar of the Russian war effort when he took charge of the Russian Armed Forces in 1915-16. The Germans demanded enormous concessions and in March, 1918, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed, ending Russian participation in World War I. The allies responded by aligning themselves with pro-Tsarist forces and even other, less extreme communist forces (Mensheviks aka "Whites"). This Russian Civil War lasted until about 1920, when the Red Army defeated its internal enemies and drove off aggressive Allied forces. The Allies intervention proved to the Bolshevik Party that their revolution would not survive unless they sparked revolution in advanced capitalist countries.
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How did Britain respond to the French Revolution?
They went to war against the revolutionary government.
How did Lenin's power end?
Lenin began to lose power on May 25, 1922, when he suffered a serious stroke which partially paralyzed his right side and temporarily cost him the ability to speak. For awhile he could no longer exercise governmental powers, leaving Joseph Stalin, Gregori Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev to run the country in his absence. He returned in September, but Stalin and others operated behind Lenin's back making governmental decisions that they did not disclose to Lenin. On December 15, 1922, Lenin suffered another serious stroke. Stalin took this opportunity to isolate Lenin from all governmental operations under the pretense that he was helping Lenin recover by making things easy for him. In March 1923, Lenin had his third stroke, which permanently cost him the ability to speak. He was virtually wheelchair bound and there was no doubt he would never return to power. He died on January 21, 1924.
How did Vladimir Lenin stay in power?
The former Soviet Union under the command of Lenin, would have become a democracy, had he not died prematurely as a result of injuries from a terrorist attack? If the circumstances of the Civil War, had not caused a closure of the political system, there would be chance for a new kind of democracy under the leadership of Lenin? In other words, any chance for the survival of Communist theory of power out of the Stalinist deformations?Contrary View:The circumstances of the Russian Civil War had nothing to do with ending chances of democracy under Vladimir Lenin. The Civil War erupted because Lenin and the Bolsheviks had seized the government in a military coup instead of participating in the democratic process. Many Russians were opposed to the Bolsheviks having sole governmental power.Lenin would never have permitted a democracy in the Soviet Union as long as anyone disagreed with his vision of what a proper socialist society should be. Lenin viewed all thoughts contrary to his own as counter-revolutionary and traitorous. It did not matter if the people of Russia wanted to remove the Bolsheviks from power, Lenin would simply not permit it. In a democracy, even a democratic republic, the people have a right to elect their government officials in a democratic way. Lenin did not permit this. Some actions he took that bear this out are:Lenin could have instituted democracy as soon as he took over just as the other revolutionary political parties thought he would do and as he had promised to do. But he didn't.Lenin abolished all the other political parties including the Mensheviks, Social Revolutionaries, KaDets, anarchists, monarchist and others in order that he not have any opposition to his rule.Lenin then forbade all factionalism within the Bolshevik Party itself. No one, not even a Bolshevik, was permitted to propose policies other than ones Lenin wanted.The Civil War occurred because the Bolshevik Revolution was not a revolution. It was a military takeover of the then existing Provisional Government. Not a very democratic way to change governments, that.Lenin abolished the existing democratically elected Duma and arrested many of its members.Immediately after the October Revolution, Lenin created the VeCheKa, the Cheka, (the secret police) to promote his polices by means of state terror. The Cheka was not under the supervision of the Council of Peoples Commissars. It was answerable to Lenin only.Lenin abolished all trade unions, because in his opinion, they worked for the benefit of their own members rather than for the good of the country as a whole.Essentially, Lenin did not care one bit what the majority of the people of Russia wanted. As time went on, most wanted to be rid of Bolshevik terror and oppression and had they had the right to vote for another government (democracy) they would have. Even Lenin knew this. After all, there were only a little over 1 million Bolsheviks in a country of an estimated 147 million.
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