This was partly due to Lenin's April thesis, great speeches and targeted slogans such as "Peace, Bread and Land!... In the April Theses of 1917 he drafted a strategy for the party to seize power. ... Just after the revolution Lenin immediately began organising similar take-overs across Russia, by the end of October only a handful of regions remained loyal to the provisional government. ... Shortly after the introduction of NEP the effects of War communism became evident, the great famine of 1921-22 caused some 5 million deaths. ... Stalin focused on moving the Russian economy forward...

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The one is a neutral aspect, that is, the fact that owing to application of results of scientific-technological development to the field of transportation and communication, it becomes increasingly easy for us to travel, transport goods, transmit information and transfer even money across borders, and consequently the globe became relatively small. ... 'Euroregions' are interesting examples of 'cooperative relationship of municipalities across borders'. ... When I visited Slovenia in April 1991, that is, immediately before the Federation's breakup, I was skeptical abou...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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Until Lenin arrived in April, Stalin and Lev Kamenev dominated all party decisions. ... When Lenin arrived back in Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland, on April 3, 1917, he strongly criticized Stalin for printing both of these opinions and demanded an immediate reversal in policy. Nevertheless, Stalin was re-elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on April 27, 1917. ...

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