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Russian Revolution Leninism
Russian Revolution Leninism
LENINISM
The living condition of the ordinary citizens of Russia was often very hard for the
working class people along with peasants because they often worked for very
little pay, may have went days without food, and worked in dangerous
conditions. These living conditions including low wages, days without food, and
dangerous work conditions ultimately led to the Russian Revolution. In addition,
angered emotions from the ordinary citizens about a czar having all power, also
led to the revolution beginning.
THE OPI NIONS OF T HE CI TIZE NS I N REGARDS TO
T HE IR GOVE RNMENT AND VLADIM IR L ENIN’S
POLI TICAL PARTY
Vladimir Lenin and his followers made up the more radical part of the Russian
Social Democratic party (the Bolsheviks) and Lenin gained more and more
support by writing editorials for the Bolshevik newspaper criticizing the
Provisional Government. In addition, during the November Revolution, the
Provisional Government had lost most of its support which led to Lenin gaining
power and leading the new government.
WHAT P OLI TICAL PARTIE S WE RE ACTIVE LY
INVOLVED I N RUSS IA DURI NG THIS TIM E (T HERE
W ERE MANY!)
• Occurred on the night of November 6, 1917 when the Bolsheviks moved against the
headquarters of the Provisional Government in Petrograd.
• The Provisional Government had lost most of its support and as a result, the
Bolsheviks moved against them.
• The Bolsheviks took hold of government buildings, the railway station, telephone
exchanges, and electric lighting plants.
• Lenin and chairman, Trotsky put their plan into action to interfere with the All-Russian
Congress of Soviets.
• At this meeting, Lenin was chosen to lead the new government and he negotiated the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany.
P R O V ID E A S M A N Y DE TA I L S AB O U T V L A DI M I R
L E NI N, H I S P OL I T I C A L I D E A S , R US S I A D U RI N G T H AT
T IME , AN D “ L E N I NI S M ” T H AT YO U C A N I DE N T I F Y.
Stalin wanted to make the Soviet Union a strong communist state. To do this,
Stalin organized a totalitarian state, which meant that the government would be a
single-party dictatorship that controls everything about each civilian’s life. People
had to obey the government and had no individual rights. The government would
quickly silence anyone who criticized it.
Stalin used the media, which was under government control, to put out
propaganda supporting Stalin’s policies.
BELIEFS
● Believed that the Soviet Union was surrounded by enemies and that it was
economically very far behind other countries.
● He believed that the country had to develop its industry in order to be able to
survive any attacks from other countries.
● Used terror to silence critics
● Stalin relied on propaganda and censorship to bolster support for his regime
LONG TERM EFFECTS OF HIS
LEADERSHIP ON CITIZENS AND
WORLD
● Joseph Stalin is known to have some positive attributes to Russia but many
negatives.
● He industrialized Russia, making it the second best in the world.
● The industrialization did not affect the lives of ordinary citizens, as it only
did of the upper class and nobility.
● Joseph Stalin was not able to do much in World War II, and wasn’t able to
stop the forces of Nazi Germany.
WHO WAS THE MORE EFFECTIVE
LEADER? (LENIN/STALIN)