Vladimir Lenin

  • History—Russia (1906-1920)

    tmb640px Ipatjew Haus2Russian history at the end of WWI and even back to Tzar Alexander’s freeing of the serfs in the 1870s was affected by extreme stratification of society along with the ineffectiveness of Tzar Nicholas II who cracked down on protestors and instigated violent pogroms against the Jews who were isolated into an area of Ukraine called The Pale. Ending WWI lead to the abdication of the Tzar and a vicious civil war between groups who were loyal to different political philosophies: Menshevik, Bolshevik and White Russian. 

  • Joseph Stalin

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    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin[b][c] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili;[a] 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian ethnicity. He ruled the Soviet Union from the mid–1920s until his death in 1953. Initially presiding over an oligarchic one-party system that governed by plurality, he became the de facto dictator of the Soviet state by the 1930s while holding the posts of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1922–1952) and Premier (1941–1953). A communist ideologically committed to the Leninist interpretation of Marxism, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism, while his own policies became known as Stalinism.

  • Leah's Russia

    Russia convulsed and its revolutions and violence reverberated throughout the world before and during WWI

    PyotrStolypinLOC07327Pyotr Stolypin, Prime Minister 1911
    637px-Vice-AdmiralKolchakAlexander Kolchak
    AntonDenikin1917estAnton Denikin
    AABogdanovAlexandar Bogdanov
    PhotoofMikhailRodziankoMikhail Rodzianko, 4th Duma
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    678px-AlexandraFyodorovnaLOC01137uTzarina Alexandra Feodorovna
    634px-PaulAlexandrovichGrandDukeofRussiaGrand Duke Paul Alexandrovich
    591px-GrandDukeKirillVladimirovichRomanovGrand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich
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    Between the wars, Stalin rose to power and famine and death raged as he purged the Soviet Union of old-time Bolsheviks.

     

Morris Levy

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Moshe "Morris" Levy

Bodyguard and General to Chinese Nationalist Army

Two-Gun Levy was a real person named Morris Cohen and given the nickname "2-Gun" because he always carried two guns. He protected both Dr. Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek from 1911 until his death in the 1950s.

Pinchas Levy

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Pinchas Levy

Poet and Warrior

Pinchas Levy participated in a love battle that became the talk of Ottoman Palestine. He fought with the Jewish Legion in WWI and then settled down at one of the first Kibbutzim.

Dovid "Davey Boy" Levy

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Dovid "Davey Boy" Levy

Head of the Freedman Gang and Mobster

David Levy joined one of the lower East side New York City gangs and eventually became head of one of the most notorious mobs in the US.

Leah Levy

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Leah Levy

Bolshevik revolutionary

Leah Levy was a member of the wealthy and influential Polyakov family who became disillusioned and radicalized. She joined the Bolsheviks and through much suffering remained a member of the Communist party until her death in the late 1950s.