The picture shows Kerensky, the leader of the Russian Provisional Government.
In 1917, Kerensky, the leader of the Provisional Government of the "February Revolution", was Chinese New Year's Eve six years old. Kerensky was a practicing lawyer who defended political prisoners, joined the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, and was known for his ability to speak. After the overthrow of the Tsar, Kerensky became Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government led by Lvov and later Minister of the Army and Navy, advocating that Russia not withdraw from the war with Germany. In July, the Provisional Government was reorganized, and Kerensky became Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, actively suppressing the Bolshevik Revolution, but could not stop the tide of history. On the night of 24 October, when the revolutionary occupation of Petersburg was over, Kerensky fled north in a CAR from the U.S. Embassy and gathered the old forces to counterattack, but was soon defeated. On 30 October, Kerensky fled via Finland to Paris, then moved to the United States, where he continued his anti-Soviet activities until his death in 1970.
The picture shows Trotsky during the October Revolution.
In 1917, Trotsky, the leader of the Bolshevik Revolutionary Armed Forces. Torre was strong-willed and was once the highest-ranking man under Lenin. One historian once described Trotsky's appearance this way: "He was pale, with a dark and dense beard on his upper lips, a goat whisker on his chin, and a pair of thick nose-clipping mirrors on the bridge of his nose, and he looked like an authentic Russian-Jewish intellectual. Born into a Jewish peasant family in 1879, Trotsky began to participate in workers' activities in 1896 and was arrested and imprisoned several times. In 1905, when Lenin was still abroad, he led the workers' uprising, and Trotsky became internationally famous for his enthusiasm and mobility, juxtaposing his name with Lenin, calling the Bolsheviks "Lenin-Trotsky's party". At the time of the October Revolution, Trotsky was the leader of the Military Revolutionary Committee, directly commanding the battle and overthrowing the Provisional Government.
In 1917, a few weeks after the October Revolution, Trotsky stood on a bench by Moscow's Red Square and delivered an impassioned speech to the revolutionary ranks, asking them to maintain their utmost confidence and to defeat the counter-revolutionary forces once and for all. Although the Soviet Union had been established, the situation was still very sinister when opposition forces in the territory, combined with foreign governments, waged wars everywhere and occupied nearly three-quarters of the Soviet Union's territory. In January 1918, the Council of Soviet People's Commissars adopted a resolution establishing the Red Army, mobilizing workers and peasants to join the Red Army. Trotsky personally went to the front for more than two years, commanded the battles, defeated the enemy one by one, won the civil war, and made the Soviet revolution a worldwide force. However, after Lenin's death, Trotsky lost the struggle within the party, was expelled in 1929, and later established the "Fourth International" abroad to promote the "permanent revolution" of Trotsky's ideas, which had a strong influence. Trotsky was assassinated in his Mexican residence in 1940, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, classified archives became public, confirming that the Assassins had been sent by Stalin.
Pictured here is a Red Army soldier with an eye wound.
In 1919, a young Red Army soldier with an eye wound. According to the order of April 1918, citizens aged eighteen to forty were required to undergo compulsory military training, and the Red Army was established as a class army—an army of workers and peasants. At the same time, Communists must master military skills, and signs hanging all over the Moscow factories read: "Comrade Communists, will you use weapons?" If not, they should immediately sign up for training with the Party, and Communists should be prepared to defend the cause of socialism with full armament. "Although the White Army, which represents the old forces, has relatively good weapons and equipment, and the Red Army appears to be relatively backward, under the guidance of the Party's ideology, as well as in effective forms of organization and mass mobilization, the Red Army fought with great bravery and could often defeat a powerful enemy several times that of itself. In 1920, the Red Army won victories in various battlefields, and by 1922, the Japanese army that had invaded the Far East had been completely expelled.
The picture shows Lenin in his serious illness.
In the summer of 1923, Lenin was seriously ill. The testament he had dictated the year before had made the following assessment of Stalin: "Comrade Stalin, after becoming General Secretary, concentrated unlimited power in his own hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be able to use this power with enough caution!" At the beginning of 1923 he added: "- Stalin was too rude ... This shortcoming is intolerable to the office of General Secretary." I therefore suggest that the comrades find a way to transfer Stalin from this post and appoint another person to this position, who is in every other respect like Stalin, only one aspect is better than him, that is, to be more patient, more loyal, more polite and less willful, and so on. This aspect may be regarded as a trivial matter... but from the point of view of preventing division and from the point of view of the relations between Stalin and Trotsky that I have written above, it is not a trivial matter, or a great matter that may be of significance. On January 20, 1924, Lenin suddenly hardened his blood vessels and died of cerebral hemorrhage. On May 21, 1924, a special session of the Central Plenum before the Thirteenth Congress was held, and Kamenev, who presided over the meeting, read out Lenin's will, and although its contents were undoubtedly fatal to Stalin's political career, Kamenev and Zinoviev, who were not happy to see Trotsky's successor, decide to help Stalin. He said: "Comrades, you all know that Ilyich's last wishes, every word of Ilyich, is the law for us. More than once, we have sworn to fulfill Ilyich's legacy. But one thing we can be happy to confirm is that Ilyich's fears have not been fulfilled, and that all of you have been witnesses to our common cause in recent months. You, like me, are satisfied to see that this fear of Ilyich did not arise, and I am referring to the danger of a split between our General Secretary and the Central Committee. Then Zinoviev spoke for Stalin, asking everyone to believe that Stalin had recognized his mistake and would correct it. Only Trotsky and Stalin were silent at the meeting, and since Trotsky was confident and conceited, he did not make a crucial arrangement for the power struggle, and after a simple show of hands, stalin's re-election as general secretary was passed, and the meeting also decided not to read Out Lenin's will at the plenary. In this way, Stalin passed one of the most important tests of his political career.