Sagar Dalsania
Darshan Patel
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He exceled in studies and students alienated
him for that. (Essortment)
In 1886, his father died and in 1887 his brother
was hung for plotting to assassinate Tsar
Alexander III. (Essortment)
Due these tragedies, he denounced religion and
the politics (Essortment)
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Only got accepted to Kazan University, where
he was expelled three months later for peaceful
protests (Bio.com)
Studied law on his on and passed the exam,
coming first in a class of 124 in 1891(Bio.com)
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In 1893, he moved to St. Petersburg (Bio.com)
Marxist underground movement, grouped
members into 6 member cells (Essortment)
In the movement, industrial conditions were
searched, statistics and pamphlets were made
(Essortment)
Went to Switzerland to meet Social Democrats,
but him and Georgi Plekhanov had an
argument over who to help, liberal middle
class or the proletariat (working class)
(Essortment)
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This caused a split between the Social
Democrats into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
(Essortment)
This caused Lenin to leave for Russia to show
his findings of the Government (Essortment)
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It meant “spark” or “truth” (Iskra Print
Collective)
The newspaper, which would post the truth
about the government (Soviet Propaganda
under Lenin)
It was intended to spark a revolution to fight
against the current government(Soviet
Propaganda under Lenin)
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It caused several uprisings in Russia
(Essortment)
Lenin came back, but the revolution did not
occur (Essortment)
Tsar had appeased the people through multiple
promises (Essortment)
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2 revolutions in 1917 (Essortment)
In March, steelworkers in St. Petersburg strike
caused Tsar’s power to collapse, and Dema
(Kerensky) came into power. (Essortment)
Lenin made a deal with the Germans, if they
get him safely to Russia, then he will pull
Russia out of the war. (Essortment)
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Kerensky did not agree to pull out the war,
even though they were losing in it (Essortment)
Lenin came into power on October,
overthrowing Kerensky (Essortment)
He won since Kerensky was adamant about
staying in the war, even when it harmed the
homeland and the people. (Essortment)
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War with Germany ends, Ukraine land is gone.
(World Biography)
Land is gained back after Germany is defeated.
(World Biography)
Redistributes land in collective farms. (World
Biography)
Banks, Industries, mines, and utilities were
owned by the state(World Biography)
Russian Orthodox Church was disestablished
(World Biography)
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Between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, and the
Bolsheviks won (Encyclopedia of Marxism)
Mensheviks were supported by the USA and
by Great Britain (Encyclopedia of Marxism)
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Between 1919-1921, famine and typhus caused
27 million deaths in Russia (Lenin: Where to
Begin?)
This plan brought some capitalist ideas, limited
private industry(Lenin: Where to Begin?“)
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From series of strokes(World Biography)
After 2 strokes, he started studying capitalist
countries, to bring ideas to Russia(World
Biography)
Also make sure Trotsky, not Stalin, succeed
him. (World Biography)
After the third stroke, he became paralyzed
and died of cerebral hemorrhage (World
Biography)
And Stalin succeeded (World Biography)
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N.p., n.d. Web. 5 Jan. 2013.
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Web. 4 Jan. 2013.
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