USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in Russia and wanted a violent revolution?

(A) Schlieffen

(B) Stalin

(C) ** Lenin

(D) Wilson

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries launch a nearly bloodless coup d’État against Russia’s ineffectual Provisional Government.

Concept note-2: -Regarded as one of the greatest revolutionary leaders in history, Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, and the first head of the Soviet State. “Lenin, Vladimir Ilich.” Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001.

Concept note-3: -The leader of Bolshevik Party was Vladimir Lenin.

Concept note-4: -Vladimir Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary and head of the Bolshevik Party who rose to prominence during the Russian Revolution of 1917, one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century.

Concept note-5: -Lenin’s Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party.