A 3 page paper which examines the early socialists idealistic desire to create a society free of capitalist-industrial economic, social and political injustice and the reality of the 1917 Lenin communist government. Specifically examined are the relationship between the ideals and the reality and how the differences can be historically explained. Bibliography lists 3 sources. It opens with a discussion about Trotsky's life accomplishments and then moves into a brief biography of his entire life. It finishes with the reason he did not win the bid to succeed Lenin when he died.
Bibliography lists five sources.
This 7 page report discusses the events of 1917 and the Russian Revolution. Russia suffered serious reverses in World War I at the hands of the Germans and Austrians. The country had become a backward country with a miserable peasantry on the verge of starvation, a thin veneer of European civilization, and a seemingly unbridgeable gap between the privileged and the unprivileged. The Russian people turned to the Bolsheviks, almost by default, to implement the popular revolutionary program. Lenin and the Bolsheviks eventually implemented their own version of revolution instead.