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. ... A precursor to Stalin's five year plans, Lenin is famously quoted in saying "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country....

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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. ... Svetlana had eight children (five with Morozov; thus, more than half of Sta...

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Once in power, Stalin began a drive to industrialize and modernize the Soviet Union, with a Five-Year Plan (1927-32) based on Marxist principles championing government control of the economy. ... Meanwhile, members of Stalin's loyal, personally appointed Politburo were beginning to wonder if their leader, who had guided them through the turmoil of collectivization and the Five-Year Plan, could now also prove effective in a relatively peaceful era. ...

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