1. According to Documents C, D and E Lenin and Stalin worked to secure the supremacy of the party by- in Document C dispersing of all groups within the party, they wanted a completely unified party and the division would cause potential criticism of the party that could be viewed as negative. In Document D Stalin speaks about absorbing all the best elements of the working class, their experience, spirit to revolutionize, and their devotion to the cause of the proletariat, however Stalin makes it clear that he will need to keep the dictator ship of the Proletariat, essentially Stalin and Lenin were enabling the party to gain supremacy by destroying any other parties, keeping itself unified, and keeping all of the criticism about the party out, Lenin also made it clear that he would be eliminating anyone who " free spoke" poorly about the party. Basically, it was not allowed, to speak poorly about the party; and the entire party must remained unified. As for Document E, ( cartoon ) the strength of the party is clearly shown through the larger man, with some sort of weapon; although this party is a minority- this is an instigation-propaganda, showing that the bolsheviks are a "power" in the revolution, and that the presumed mensheviks who are trying to hold the Bolsheviks back, are smaller and cannot stand in their way.
2. According to documents A,B, and C; the assertion that Lenin wanted power, and that his opponents did not want power is supported through the one thing Lenin seemed to have a real handle on, which was giving/telling the people exactly what they wanted. The Provisional Government, Duma, and Tsar- were all weaker examples, they never much thought into what the people really wanted, the provisional government was, like it clearly says simply provisional- they were not expecting to gain/maintain much power, so they never strove for any expansion; the duma is directly correlated because the men chosen by the Tsar to be in the Duma were the same who then made up the provisional government. In document B this is described, and also it is described that even after the unfavorable vote for the bolsheviks they merely decided that they would set themselves up as a one party state, anything to keep socialist revolutionaries from being the government. Document A talks about completely eliminating the need for party, class, estate and national difference, which on the surface seems mildly pro Lenin and the Bolsheviks, this would be true, however it says that the Duma had " forgotten party differences" which is essentially untrue- they would then set up the Provisional Government, which would essentially fail to break down party/class lines, and would itself ONLY be run by higher wealthier Russians. Lastly document C, as discussed above; talks about the party rules, * given by lenin * that would eliminate anyones freedom of speech to speak badly about the party anyway.
( JUST KIDDING! I wrote this on the ENTIRELY WRONG DOCUMENTS) sorry- i'll go back and fix it later. TIME: 1:03pm-- i was wondering why it made NO SENSE.
3. What can be inferred from Document D? About A) why the soldiers wanted to go home, and B)Why the soldiers supported the Bolsheviks.
A) The soldiers wanted to go home simply for the purpose of land, they knew that the peasants back at home were already going forth in taking the land from their former Squires. They wanted to make sure that they wouldn't miss out on their chances to have land for their own.
B) The soldiers would support the Bolsheviks because one of their main platforms was to bring the Russian troops back from the home front, and stop the war with Germany; and since the people fighting the war wanted to go home in order to get their land, they more than welcomed this, they would be getting two of the 3 platform gains; Peace and Land.
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2) According to the REAL documents A, B, and C the assertion that Lenin wanted power, and the other parties did not rests with the fact that Lenin, would essentially just take the power from the Socialist Revolutionaries when it came down to it. According to document A was that Lenin forbid any support to other parties, he made sure that he shed light on the "lies" of that party, and made himself the only " legitimate" party leader to be listening to. Document B, it was neccesary for the Soviet to overtake the political influence of the Provisional Government and "democratically" decide to stop the support and protection of the provisional government. Document C lastly, talks about the different parties and their willingness to simply let the Provisional government govern, but still while slandering and criticising the way it was done, the only party that would do more than criticize was the Bolsheviks, who- essentially challenged the Provisional government * and win*, while everyone else sat by and let it happen, only verbally criticizing.
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