The Rise Of Communism In Russia

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originated in
the West. Designed in France and Germany, it was brought into Russia in
the middle of the nineteenth century and promptly attracted support among
the country's educated, public-minded elite, who at that time were called
intelligentsia (Pipes, 21). After Revolution broke out over Europe in
1848 the modern working class appeared on the scene as a major historical
force. However, Russia remained out of the changes that Europe was
experiencing. As a socialist movement and inclination, the Russian Social-
Democratic Party continued the traditions of all the Russian Revolutions
of the past, with the goal of conquering political freedom (Daniels 7).
As early as 1894, when he was twenty-four, Lenin had become a
revolutionary agitator and a convinced Marxist. He exhibited his new
faith and his polemical talents in a diatribe of that year against the
peasant-oriented socialism of the Populists led by N.K. Mikhiaiovsky (Wren,
3).
While ...

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for his faction and seized
upon the label 0Bolshevik (Russian for Majority), while his opponents who
inclined to the soft or more democratic position became known as the
Mensheviks or minority (Daniels, 19).
Though born only in 1879, Trotsky had gained a leading place among
the Russian Social-Democrats by the time of the Second party Congress in
1903. He represented ultra-radical sentiment that could not reconcile
itself to Lenin's stress on the party organization. Trotsky stayed with
the Menshevik faction until he joined Lenin in 1917. From that point on,
he accommodated himself in large measure to Lenin's philosophy of party
dictatorship, but his reservations came to ...

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