What events caused Lenin to oppose the Russian government?
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The rising of the failed workers.\nHe was accused of being a paid German agent, also.
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Lenin died a natural death in 1924. \nThere was a number of attempts at his life, most famous being by a woman named Fanny Kaplan, who pumped two bullets into him in 1918. There is speculation that bullets were poisoned.
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Well, the American Revolution was related to the economy because the British government was taxing the colonies on anything they did, not giving the colonists any say in the taxes.  The French revolution was related because the King was essentially hoarding all of the wealth, taxing the snot out of the population, so they revolted.  Marie Antionette's "let them eat cake" comment didn't help either.\nThe Russian revolution was largely the same thing, the nation was poor as dirt, and still living pre-industrial technologies.
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Revolutions defined as overthrowing the government in power require fighting, b/c the government does not usually want to be overthrown, and they protect themselves with whatever (armies, terrorists, bodyguards, rocks), and while the ones causing the revolution might be powerful, they're seldom powerful enough to overcome this without force.\n  The most current "revolution" that spilled the least amount of blood was in Romania in 1989. But even then the government had the army open fire on some college kids protesting. And the end result was that the dictator was machine gunned down after a mock trial on Christmas day 1989.\n  But some conspiracy theories would say that what happened in Romania wasn't even a revolution but all done by the government.
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Soviet Union did not like west germany because of world war 2. West Germany was seen as the enemy to soviet union.
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Finland also fought against Russia, besides the answers given above
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PBS's Frontline did a 3 part series on this...\n\nI have mixed emotions and mixed opinions on what happened.\n\nYes, the Chinese government went overboard in killing so many innocent students and if you know what really happened, they weren't just students. The protests had grown to a point of attracting many many other types of ppl.\n\nNow with that said, I am going to make an extremely unpopular statement/opinion. I am a marxist at heart and have studied the writings of Lenin in depth. Lenin, while a pacifist, knew that there were times to be use force to control mutiny.\n\nLenin wrote about the ones that will try to overthrow the idealism of a fair and equal society... the ones that won't accept the weak having the same or the ones that won't accept a no class system.\n\nWhile I know this incident was not about that.. I do realize that this incident threatened the fairly new communist Chinese regime. I truly believe the Chinese regime would have been weakened had they given into the protesters due to the vast number and the length of the protest... not justifying the slaughter but saying I understand the stopping of the protest.\n\nIn that Frontline series, the Chinese government warned them.. gave them days to leave... they chose to stay. They chose their destiny.
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Russia had been the only Euopean power to support the Federal government during the Civil War, and was on very friendly terms. After the Polish rebellion in 1863, Russia was very strapped for cash, and Alaska was very isolated and not paying for itself. There was also the problem that England, which held Canada and was opposing Russia as it moved south from Siberia towards India, might start some sort of military action against Alaska that Russia could not support. It would be better to sell Alaska rather than watch it be stolen.
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It was never a real threat, because despite all the posturing the USSR was not that well armed. It was however, a great excuse to keep people in the "democratic" countries so scared that they were easy to manipulate by their government.
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It is Stalin not Stallin.\n\nHitler was worse because he was a nazi and targeted a specific race. Stalin was also horrific in his belief of violence against anyone that opposed his idea of government.
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The Americans were trying to overthrow a government that refused to allow the people equal representation in parliament. \nThe French were trying to overthrow a government that refused to allow the people equal representation in parliament.\nSound familiar?
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Constant government propaganda- it's the same reason we hate/fear terrorists now. Marxist communism had high military ambitions, and we were concerned that they might make a bid for world domination.
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The bolsheviks over threw the tsar of russia in 1917 they shot him and his family and declared russia a communist state prior to communism it was an imperialist state the revolution was started by men named lenin and trotsky the tsars name was nicholas (thats a very brief overview)
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you should be able to do a search on that pretty easily. I think the anti feds wanted a government like they had in britain. with kings and such so the constitution was against thier plan. it's like modern day socialist in america. everyone wants to be a socialist if they are the ones making the rules and determining pay, nobody wants to be at the bottom but when you feel you have a chance to be at the top you might push a little harder to rule others
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The Russian revolution is the fundamental political and social upheaval that erupted in the Russian empire in 1917. The roots of the Russian Revolution are to be sought in the arbitrary, autocratic, and repressive czarist political and social system that evolved in the 16th – 18th century. It began with the collapse of the centuries-old czarist regime in February that led to the overthrow of the Western-style Provisional Government and the establishment of the first national communist political system in October. In the last years before World War 1 there was no reason to believe that revolution was inevitable, much less imminent in Russia. But as military defeats piled up, a progressive block was formed in the Duma (parliament that had limited power). The member of the block strove valiantly to convince the government that it must follow the example of western government to accept the voluntary cooperation of the public in coping with the inordinately difficult problems. The autocracy, jealous of its exclusive authority refused all such offers that would help his government. Rapidly the government lost all shred of public confidence. Under the czars Russia was a backward country, much of the land was in royal and private estate\n\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html
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In July 1918. \nShortly after the October revolution, Russia unilaterally signed a peace treaty with Germany (Brest peace treaty). In order to resurrect the Eastern front, Allies decided to intervene. More is written in history books. \n\nSee Wikipedia, for example.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War