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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov: Lenin

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Background

In 1887 his brother was executed for plotting  to assassinate Tsar Alexander III and this prompted Lenin to become a revolutionary. He joined the Marxist RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) in 1898.

Background

- He believed that the proletarian revolution could be led by a small group of revolutionaries.

- He was expelled from the Kazan Imperial University in 1887 for getting involved in a student demonstration.

Background

- December 1895, he was arrested,  jailed for a year and then exiled to Siberia for a term of three years.

- In 1900 he went into exile (Western Europe) and adopted the name Lenin.

Mensheviks and Bolsheviks

 In 1903 at the 2nd Party Congress of the RSDLP in London, the  party split into two factions: the Bolsheviks (derived from bolshinstvo—Russian for "majority"), headed by Lenin; and the Mensheviks (from menshinstvo—Russian for "minority"), headed by Julius Martov.  This is confusing as the Mensheviks were actually the larger faction but these names were set in a vote for the editorial board of the party newspaper, Iskra (Spark). The Bolsheviks were a majority faction on the board.were actually the larger faction but these names were set in a vote for the editorial board of the party newspaper, Iskra(Spark). The Bolsheviks were a majority faction on the board.were actually the larger faction but these names were set in a vote for the editorial board of the party newspaper, Iskra (Spark). The Bolsheviks were a majority faction on the board.

Mensheviks and Bolsheviks

were actually the larger faction but these names were set in a vote for the editorial board of the party newspaper, Iskra (Spark). 

Russia's two revolutions of 1917

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Works Cited

“This Day in History.” Https://Www.history.com/This-Day-In-History/Lenin-Returns-To-Russia-From-Exile#:~:Text=Early%20life, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lenin-returns-to-russia-from-exile#:~:text=Early%20life. Accessed 10 Nov. 2022.

Waller, Sally, and Allan Todd. History for the IB Diploma. Paper 3, Imperial Russia, Revolution and the Establishment of the Soviet Union (1855-1924). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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