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Lord Lytton was the viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880. During his tenure, the vernacular press act was passed in 1878 which empowered a magistrate to call upon the printer and publisher of any vernacular newspaper to enter into an undertaking not to publish anything likely to create disaffection against the government.

In 1854 Charles Wood, a British Liberal politician sent the “Wood’s despatch” to the Governor General Lord Dalhousie. It recommended that the existing Board of Control for Education be abolished and the office of the Director of Public Instructions should be established in the states.  The result was Education Departments were established in every province and universities were opened at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

• Proletariat were the industrial working class people.
• Lenin argued that in Russia professional revolutionaries, like himself, would need to educate the Proletariat to adapt to the communist ideas.

• In 1918, Russia was divided into two forces. The Reds and the Whites. The Whites were opposed to the Bolshevik rule.
• They were led by Generals Yudenich and Denikin and Admiral Kolchak.

• In 1924 Lenin died and his body was embalmed i.e it was preserved using chemicals.
• It was placed on permanent display in Red Square Moscow where it remains, heavily guarded, today.

• In 1918, Russia was divided into two forces. The Reds and the Whites.
• The Reds were made up of Bolsheviks and was led by Trotsky.

• Lenin had fled Russia but as World War One began to go badly and the Tsar was overthrown, he returned to lead his party called Bolsheviks.
• With the help of the party members, he led a revolution and established the world’s first communist state.

• The Whites were opposed to the Bolshevik rule. These included the Tsarists and other political parties.
• There were also former landowners and army officers and armies of other powers, such as the French and British.

• Although Lenin had overthrown the Russian government, he did not defeat all opposition to communist rule.
• As a result, a civil war broke out in Russia which was ultimately won by the Bolsheviks party led by Lenin.

• Vladimir Lenin led the revolution to bring communism to Russia.
• The revolution was to replace the capitalism in Russia by establishing a system where everyone would work for the common good.