Important Personalities - Socialism In Europe and the Russian Revolution
Category : 9th Class
Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution
IMPORTANT PERSONALITIES
- Lenin. The leader of the Bolshevik Party who led the Russian Revolution in 1917. As a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany, he withdrew Russia from the First World War and took various measures to make Russia a socialist state.
- Nicholas II. The Tsar of Russia whose policies precipitated the Russian Revolution.
- Kerenskii. The leader of the Mensheviks party who wanted to establish a parliamentary form of government in Russia.
- Leon Trotsky. He headed the Petrograd Soviet and played a leading role in the Russian Revolution and was later assassinated by Stalin.
- Rasputin. An unscrupulous monk whose influence over the royal family was resented by the Russian people.
- Engels. Frederick Engels in association with Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto that was the guiding spirit of the Russian Revolution.
- Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Leaders of the German revolutionary movement, they tried to foment a revolution in 1919. But the army crushed the revolution. Both were captured and shot.
- Joseph Stalin. He emerged as the leader of the Communist Party after the death of Lenin in 1924. He assumed complete control of Russian government and its policies till his death in 1953.
