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"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."Vladimir Lenin
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In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks held St. Petersburg (Petrograd) but little else, and it seemed unlikely that they could possibly establish permanent control over the vastnesses of Russia. But Lenin, displaying the same indefatigable energy that had carried him through a decade of disappointment, immediately set to work on the task of consolidating power. The Bolsheviks were the ‘Reds’ and all groups who opposed them were the ‘Whites.
- In 1917, as an anti-imperialist, Lenin said that oppressed peoples had the unconditional right to secede from the Russian Empire.
- At the end of the Civil War, the USSR annexed Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, because the White Movement used them as attack bases Lenin pragmatically defended the annexations as geopolitical protection against capitalist imperial depredations.
- Lenin led to signing deals with countries to rebuild.
•Treaty of Rapallo - Russians made war material for the Germans (against the Treaty of Versailles) - Received steel manufacturing technology from Germany.
- In 1922 Bolshevik Party became the Communist Party Russia and became the Soviet Union
Summary:
In November 1917, Lenin's Bolsheviks held St. Petersburg (Petrograd) but little else, and it seemed unlikely that they could possibly establish permanent control over the vastnesses of Russia. But Lenin, displaying the same indefatigable energy that had carried him through a decade of disappointment, immediately set to work on the task of consolidating power. The Bolsheviks were the ‘Reds’ and all groups who opposed them were the ‘Whites.