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Lenin was dictator of the Soviet state under a system of [[Marxism-Leninism]], involving iron control of the party and the people, until his death in 1924. After his death, a power struggle between [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] ostracized Trotsky and brought Stalin to power. Stalin would eventually have Trotsky assassinated, and his increasing paranoia was manifested in a bloody series of [[purge]]s from the mid-1930s onwards.
Lenin was dictator of the Soviet state under a system of [[Marxism-Leninism]], involving iron control of the party and the people, until his death in 1924. After his death, a power struggle between [[Leon Trotsky]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] ostracized Trotsky and brought Stalin to power. Stalin would eventually have Trotsky assassinated, and his increasing paranoia was manifested in a bloody series of [[purge]]s from the mid-1930s onwards.
The October Revolution and the Bolsheviks owed a lot of their acts to the [[French Revolution]], and as such, they planned on a line of statues commemorating various figures from the French Revolution, called monumental propaganda, to put into context their struggle. However, for various reasons, only Georges Danton and Robespierre actually were raised as statues, and one of the statues of Robespierre was destroyed due to inferior construction bases.
==Calendar confusion==
==Calendar confusion==
*The confusion about the naming of the October or November Revolution is because at the time the Russians still used the [[Julian calendar]], which meant that it was around a month behind the more modern states who used the [[Gregorian calendar]], so for the other states the revolution occurred in November, but to the Russians it occurred in October.
*The confusion about the naming of the October or November Revolution is because at the time the Russians still used the [[Julian calendar]], which meant that it was around a month behind the more modern states who used the [[Gregorian calendar]], so for the other states the revolution occurred in November, but to the Russians it occurred in October.
==Further notes==
*''Bolshevik'', in Russian, means ''majority,'' while ''Menshevik'' means ''minority.''
*''Bolshevik'', in Russian, means ''majority,'' while ''Menshevik'' means ''minority.''