Lenin Flashcards
What is accomodationism?
Bolsheviks should accept the situation that followed the February Revolution and cooperate with the PG and other parties
What was the name given to the thought that the Bolsheviks should accept the situation that followed the February Revolution and cooperate with the PG and other parties?
accomodationism
Who agreed with the accomodationism?
Stalin and Kamenev
What did Stalin and Kamenev believe when the Bolsheviks returned from exile?
Accomodationism
What did Lenin want when he returned from exile?
Revolution
Who wanted revolution when he returned from exile?
Lenin
What did Lenin say in his ‘letters for afar’?
Urged WW1 to be turned into a class war with all armies turning on their governments
Who urged WW1 to become a class war with all armies turning on their governments?
Lenin said in his ‘letters for afar’
What happened on the third of April 1917?
Lenin returned to Petrograd
When had Lenin returned to Petrograd?
3rd of April 1917
What did Lenin do when he arrived in Petrograd in April 1917?
Gave a speech, where he declared that the February Revolution had created a ‘parliamentary-bourgeois republic’ and called it the ‘old Duma in a new form’
When had Lenin given a speech, where he declared that the February Revolution had created a ‘parliamentary-bourgeois republic’ and called it the ‘old Duma in a new form’?
Lenin when he arrived in Petrograd in April 1917
What happened on the 4th of April 1917?
April Thesis
When was the April thesis issued?
4th of April 1917
What did Lenin say in the 4th of April 1917 April thesis?
Condemned Accommodationsim and all that has happened since the February Revolution
Bolsheviks weer the true revolutionary party
Abandon all co-operation with other parties
Work for a true revolution
Overthrow the provisional government
Pass power to the workers
Demand authority Pasha to the Soviets
When did Stalin return from exile?
March 1917
Who returned from exile in March 1917?
Stalin
What did Churchill say about Lenin’s return?
‘They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus into Russia’
Who said ‘They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus into Russia’?
Churchill when talking about Lenin’s return
How did Lenin increase support for the Soviets?
‘All power to the Soviets’
What was the impact of Lenin saying ‘All power to the Soviets’?
Increased support for the Soviets
What was Lenin’s slogan?
‘Peace, Land and Bread’
What was the impact of the slogan ‘peace land and Bread’?
Appeal to both workers and peasants
Undermine the provisional government
What was Lenin’s orator skills?
Excellent
Whose ideaology did Lenin follow?
Karl Marx
What was happening to Russia in the early 20th century?
Industrialisation so enough workers to stage a revolution so Lenin and the Bolsheviks would have to do this on their behalf
Why did Lenin welcome the outbreak of war in 1914?
Thought the strains would lead to a revolution
Who did Lenin want to have political power?
Soviets
What did Lenin want globally?
Worldwide socialist revolution
What did Lenin publish in 1902?
‘What is to be done’
When was the ‘What is to be done’ published?
1902
What was the 1902 book that Lenin published, ‘What is to be done’ about?
Described the need for a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries to organise and lead the Russian revolution
Who described the need for a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries to organise and lead the Russian revolution?
1902 book that Lenin published ‘What is to be done’
Why did Lenin think that there was the outbreak of war?
Capitalists to gain some more wealth
How did Lenin think the revolution would be staged?
Capitalists where workers were exploited by industrialists
Socialist rising
