BIOGRAPHY OF LENIN AND RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

PART - 1

By
SIDDHANT AGNIHOTRI
B.Sc (Silver Medalist)
M.Sc (Applied Physics)
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 WHAT WE WILL STUDY?

• CHILDHOOD OF LENIN

• THE RISING

• RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

• LENINISM
 CHILDHOOD
• Lenin was not born, Lenin was constructed. The child who
was to become Lenin, Vladimir Il’ich Ulyanov, was born on
22 April 1870 in the town of Simbirsk on the Volga.

• He was the fourth child of a moderately prosperous, teacher

and public official, Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov (1831–86) and
his wife Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835–1916) .

• Volodya was a brilliant child and became a passable piano

player but gave up when he was ten years old. The children
themselves were successful learners and the Ulyanov
sisters, Maria, Anna and Olga, were also intelligent and
accomplished.

• Like Alexander, Volodya shone at school. At the end of his

secondary school he was given a glowing report by his
headmaster and achieved top marks in almost all his
subjects.
 CONSTRUCTION

• The question was: could Russia bypass capitalism and go straight to the
construction of a socialist society?Marxism was very much established untill then.

• It was not Marx who made the greatest impact on Volodya.The didactic novel What
is to be Done? Tales of the New People (1864), written by the academic economist
Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–89), had a greater effect.

• The first key problem was his educational career. As a top student Volodya would
have been entitled to walk into the best of universities. However, it took a long
struggle for his headmaster, Fyodor Kerensky, to get him admitted to the local
university in Kazan.

• The young Volodya had received a number of severe jolts. In January 1886 his
father had died unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage. Following that there was
Alexander’s arrest in March 1887, followed by his execution two months later

• In 1890 and 1891 the pace of his qualification as a lawyer speeded up. He was
granted permission to visit St. Petersburg to take his exams as an external student.
He took his firsIn his finals he obtained first place with excellent marks and was
awarded a first-class degree in law in January 1892.
 HITLER IN WORLD WAR 1

• Hitler knew that something will happen and volunteered

at the age 25.

• Hitler was an unusual soldier and but he was a good runner

and hence took messages back and forth from the command
staff in the battlefield.He also was awarded with “iron cross”.

• Geermany lost the war in 1919 and signed the humiliating

treaty of VERSAILES and paid huge reparations of war.Also
some of the areas were taken from them and cannot extend
his territory also cannot expand his army.

• Seeing all this hitler was very depressed but this was the start
he wanted because they didn’t had an effective leader and
political unstability was also there.Hitler took full advantage of
this and joins German workers party which later known as
the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) in short, Nazi
 CONSTRUCTION

• The young Volodya had received a number of severe jolts. In January

1886 his father had died unexpectedly of a brain haemorrhage. Following
that there was Alexander’s arrest in March 1887, followed by his execution
two months later

• In 1890 and 1891 the pace of his qualification as a lawyer speeded up. He
was granted permission to visit St. Petersburg to take his exams as an
external student. He took his firsIn his finals he obtained first place with
excellent marks and was awarded a first-class degree in law in January
1892.
 RISE OF HITLER

• Hitler was furious about TREATY OF VERSAILES and criticized everything

responsible for defeat and he conducted various public meetings and started giving
speeches which proved very effective.

• Hitler realized one thing the movement lacked was a recognizable symbol or flag.
In the summer of 1920, Hitler chose the symbol which to this day remains perhaps
the most infamous in history, the swastika which helped him a lot.

• In July 29, 1921, Adolf Hitler was introduced as Führer of the Nazi Party, marking
the first time that title was publicly used to address him. By 1923 it has 55,000
followers.

• Hitler made a plan in which they would kidnap the leaders of the government and
force them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader.In 8 November 1923 Nazi
troops under the direction of Hermann Göring surrounded the place. They
accpeted Hitler”s demand and assured that they would become part of the new
government.
 RISE OF HITLER

• State Commissioner Kahr broke his promise to Hitler and he was put on
trial,charged for treason sent to jail but he was treated like a celebrity in jail also.

• With the collapse of the Nazi revolution, it now appeared to most observers that
Hitler's political career and the Nazi movement itself had come to a crashing, almost
laughable end but that was the beginning.

• Hitler had been forbidden to speak in public until 1927 but

elections were held but NAZI could not win but in 1930
elections it became the second largest party aquiring 107
seats in Reichstag.

• On july 1932,Nazi party became the largest party in

Germany by aquiring 230 seats.Now the dark era begin
which took millions of life in the coming years and history
bleeded itself to its highest limits.
“I was not going to follow the beaten track, come what may; I
was going to lead a life conducive to my spiritual welfare and
the uplift of humanity; I was going to make a profound study of
philosophy so that I could solve the fundamental problems of
life ; in practical life I was going to emulate Ramakrishna and
Vivekananda as far as possible and, in any case, I was not
going in for a worldly career. This was the outlook with which I
faced a new chapter in my life”.

TO BE CONTD…
RISE OF ADOLF HITLER(BIOGRAPHY)
PART - 2

By
SIDDHANT AGNIHOTRI
B.Sc (Silver Medalist)
M.Sc (Applied Physics)
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 HITLER TAKES GERMANY

• Hindenburg now 85, was elected by an absolute majority to another seven-year term. But no
one was at ease. Hitler and the Nazis had shown massive popularity. Berlin was now a swirling
mess of fear, intrigue, rumors, and disorder. Out of that mess arose a man named Kurt von
Schleicher, a highly ambitious Army officer, driven by the idea that he, not Hitler, might possibly
rule Germany.

• On May 8, 1932, Schleicher held a secret meeting with Hitler and offered a proposal. The ban
on the SA and SS would be lifted, if Hitler would support him in a conservative nationalist
government. Hitler agreed.

• High political struggle had started for chancellor position and everyone was getting tired of
elections by now. Kurt von Schleicher became Chancellor of Germany on December 2, 1932.

• Hitler tried everything but still no result.On January 30, 1933, as a teary-eyed Adolf Hitler
emerged from the presidential palace as Chancellor of the German Nation.Hitler became
chancellor of the Germany.Hermann Göring was Minister without Portfolio .He also ordered the
police not to interfere with the SA and SS under any circumstances. This meant that anybody
being harassed, beaten, or even murdered by Nazis, had nobody to turn to for help.
 HITLER BECOMES DICTATOR

• Skirmishes of JEWS began.Hitler had a brutal

ruling force known as GESTAPO founded by SS
leader HEINRICH HIEMMLER who also opened
first concentration camp in DACHAU.

• GESTAPO became above the law. . Gestapo used

horrifying interrogating methods.Troopers also set
books on fire and wanted to crush Germany
intellectually.Jail became wild prisons and
swamped with prisoners.

• There was night of long knives which made hitler to

kill his own members due to treason and Rohm was
one of them who was very loyal to him.

• On 2 august 1934 President Hindenburg dies.Now

Germany was Hitler and he violeted treaty of
VERSAILES by issuing conscription law and
rearmament.He was about to disclose his war
plans.
 GERMANY HOSTED OLYMPICS

• Hilter took RHINELAND .France and British were quite.

The whole world waited to see how the French and
British would react.Germany also hosted 1936 olympics.

• Hosting of Olympics was a diplomatic move.Till now

nobody knew that Hitler will initiate a war.However
various opposed Olympics but Avery Brundage(head)
claimed that the Olympics were meant for "athletes not
politicians.

• Olympics went very well and people were stunned by

over friendliness of German.Hitler also supported athletes
as part of their strategy.One of them were “JESSE
OWENS”.
 HITLER REVEALS WAR PLANS

• Hitler openly violated the Treaty of Versailles by reintroducing

military conscription and began rapidly rebuilding the German Army.
Hitler then managed to negotiate a naval pact with Britain allowing
Germany to have a Navy totaling 35 percent of Britain's fleet, along
with a submarine fleet equal in size.

• Hitler had two choices In the first scenario, Hitler would wait until
1943 when rearmament was complete and France and Britain would
be heavily outgunned. In the second, he would act sooner by
keeping a close eye on France's internal political problems, waiting
for a chance to strike at Czechoslovakia.

• His very first victim was Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, Chancellor of
Austria whom he captured later by a pact without firing a single shot.
March 12, 1938, German soldiers in tanks and armored vehicles
roared across the German-Austrian border on schedule

• Britain PM Neville Chamberlain wanted peace and he would go limits

to restore it and therefore Hitler had promised British Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain and the German people that the Sudetenland
would be his "last territorial demand" in Europe. In reality, it was only
the beginning.
 WORLD WAR-II

• Hitler now wanted to grab the remainder of Czechoslovakia due to its strategic
importance and he broke all the promises. Now, for the first time in the history of the
Third Reich, Great Britain had finally declared it would stand up to the German
dictator and was willing to fight.

• Hitler made a plan for war and also promised ITALY AND RUSSIA that it will share
the conquered area with them if they becomes an ally.Hitler had gotten what he
needed. And Stalin got what he wanted.

• Stalin was granted a free hand in Eastern Europe to steal back several areas lost to
Russia at the end of World War I, including the countries of Latvia, Estonia and
Finland, the province of Bessarabia in Romania, and most importantly, the entire
eastern portion of Poland.

• The war started with the sudden attack on POLAND.France came to the rescue but
captured. With the conquest of France, nine countries had now fallen to Hitler
including Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium,
Luxembourg, and Holland. Two countries, Spain and Italy, had forged political
alliances with Hitler. Only Great Britain remained free among the major European
powers.
 HITLER DEFEATED

• FRANCE and BRITAIN just escaped from DUNKIRK.

Over the next two weeks, the British suffered terribly, losing
466 planes. Fighter Command was desperately low on planes
and pilots, flying its very last reserves.

• The death toll of British civilians steadily mounted, surpassing

15,000 by the end of 1940 but turn around happened and
royal airforce fought back with Luftwaffe and ultimately
causing huge loss to Germany.

• The invasion plan for Russia was named Operation

Barbarossa but again Hitler misjudged it and thought that this
will be easy but it was not due to vast area and turning of
weather which defeated Germany.

• Due to losses one after another Hitler lost his heart and
commited suicide in FUHRER BUNKER with his mistress EVA
BROWN on april 30 1945.USA dropped atom bomb on JAPAN
ending the war of blood finaly.
 Study iq

Against the odds, the young fighter pilots of the

Royal Air Force had withstood everything the
Germans could throw at them and saved Britain,
inspiring Winston Churchill to say, "Never in the field
of human conflict was so much owed by so many to
so few."