Socialism In Europe & The Russian Revolution Test - 6

Lenin used the slogan "All power to the soviets!" to oppose the Provisional Government led by Kerensky. Based on the Bolshevik view of the state, the word soviet extended its meaning to any overarching body that obtained the authority of a group of soviets.

Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He is considered to be first communist revolutionary in the world. Lenin was founder of the Russian Communist Party. He was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect and first head of the Soviet state. He developed political theories which are known as Leninism. Leninism is the political theory for the democratic organisation of a revolutionary vanguard party and the achievement of a dictatorship of the proletariat, as political prelude to the establishment of socialism.

On January 22, 1905, a group of workers led by the radical priest Georgy Apollonovich Gapon marched to the czar's Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to make their demands. Their demands were : 

"Wage Labour and Capital" is an essay on economics by Karl Marx, written in 1847 and first published in articles in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung in April 1849. This essay has been widely acclaimed as the precursor to Marx’s important treatise Das Kapital.

• In 1918, Russia was divided into two forces. The Reds and the Whites.
• The Reds were made up of Bolsheviks and was led by Trotsky.

• Russian Tsar Nicholas II wanted Russia to be powerful and so he looked for expansion in the East and Manchuria.
• This led to a war with Japan in 1904 which Russia lost. Nicholas was blamed for the defeat.

The first world war took place between 1914-1918. During the first world war Russia was ruled by Tsar Nicholas II. Tsar Nicholas was the last emperor of Russia. Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries on 16 July 1918.

• Winter Palace is located in St.Petersburg. In 1905, marchers advanced upon the Winter Palace in St.Petersburg to demand a change in the ruling system.
• This led to a clash with the troops. Due to the unrest, the Tsar was forced to give in to the demands for change and promised a parliament.

• After the death of Alexander III in 1894, his son Nicholas II became the Tsar of Russia.
• He tried to rule Russia alone and wanted to make it powerful.

• In 1918, Russia was divided into two forces. The Reds and the Whites. The Whites were opposed to the Bolshevik rule.
• They were led by Generals Yudenich and Denikin and Admiral Kolchak.