Russia In 1910

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Compound this with the devastation and desperation brought on
shortly thereafter by the first world war, and there was no confidence left
in the government. Liberal constitutionalists wanted to remove the Czar
and form a republic; social revolutionists tried to promote a peasant
revolution. Marxist promoted a revolution among the proletariat, or urban
working class. The people were fed up with Russia’s state of affairs and
ready for change.
Change was presented in the form of Vladimir Lenin, a committed,
persuasive visionary with a grand plan. Lenin became hardened in his quest
at an early age when his older brother Aleksandr, a revolutionary, was
executed in 1887 for plotting to kill Czar Alexander III. By 1888, at the
age of 18, he had read Das Kapital by Carl Marx, a book about socialism and
the evils of capitalism. A superb speaker, he could hold audiences at
great attention with his powerful speeches. People became convinced of his
socialist views. He formed ...

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