HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Czar Nicholas II
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Vladimir I. Lenin
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Detailed explanation-1: -(f) Lenin launched the ‘New Economic Policy’(NEP) which was partial return to market and monetary economy. It was a temporary compromise between capitalism and communism.
Detailed explanation-2: -The slogan of the Bolshevik leaders in 1917 was “Peace, Land, and Bread.”
Detailed explanation-3: -The October Revolution was actually the second Russian revolution of 1917. In March, revolutionaries led by the Petrograd soviet, or council, violently overthrew Czar Nicholas II, the monarch whose family had ruled Russia for more than three centuries.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. He became the leader of the USSR upon its founding in 1922.