Workers soviets, unions and Zemstvo played an important role in the early development of Russia. ... The main threat to Lenin's new empire came in the form of the white movement, a movement from within, a movement from abroad, but in all cases a civil war. ... Service argues that Lenin during the Civil war was too quick to resort to the Cheka and Red army stating; "Lenin preferred to overdo the blows than to risk letting an opponent survive the assault"[5] this could be seen as especially significant when we re-examine Lenin's use of force during the Kronstadt mutiny, alth...

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At the time, Russia lagged economically behind European countries as a direct result of World War I from 1914-1918 and the Russian Civil War from 1917-1922. ... World War I and the Russian Civil War led to the establishment of a Communist government in Russia, which leveraged its tight control on the film industry in order to forge unity amongst all social classes. ... This treaty was fairly generous to Russia, since she was fighting a national civil war that was of higher priority. The Russian Civil War was fought between the Bolshevik Red Army and the Anti-Bolshevik White Army. ... A firm Co...

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The dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1980s is one of the most important events of modern history. ... On March 6th, 1996 thousands of Chechen fighters infiltrated Grozny during a 3 day surprise raid (Souleimanov). ... Another unsuccessful shot at independence following the Russian Civil War in 1920 just intensified the hostility of Chechnya towards Russia (Souleimanov). ... This theory explains the cause of civil war through two pinnacles; greed and grievance. ... Grievance argues that people rebel over issues of identity and suppression rather than economics. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. ... Stalin's job was, basically, to manage relations between the various ethnic groups of the former Russian Empire and to develop some sort of coherent policy toward the questions of national secession and civil rights. ... Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number...

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The year 2001 was extremely important for both USA and Russia political life. ... Vladimir Putin during his speech in Munich accused USA of overusing the terms of democracy and peace to pursue particular interests of the US. ... Worth mentioning is a fact that at that time people started to talk about the beginning of a New Cold War. ... What is more important, this brings back a popular belief that Russia had a possibility to change borders using its power, yet they did not do that. ... The first quarter after the end of the Civil War was more of mutual cooper...

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During this period, the Social Democrats split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, and the Mensheviks. ... The new government, led by Lenin, made peace with the Germans and undertook a bloody, three-year civil war, in which Stalin commanded on several fronts. ... Even during the war, he made inflexible demands of his new allies, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States. ... This brief swell of dissent only shows how egregiously people still misunderstood the nature of Stalin's rule. ... (It is important...

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Memories of help given to the counter revolutionaries during the civil war only helped to highlight the potential disputes. ... By 1926, pre war production levels had only just been achieved after the huge damage to Russia's infrastructure inflicted by the First World War and the civil war. ... Dissatisfaction was building among those who fought the civil war for the reds. Stalin's drive for the five-year plans was popular throughout the lower sections of the party, and communism being the government of the workers; it was hard for the more important officials to object to it. ... To...

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In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a general of the red army in a civil war which lasted for 3 years, Lenin then appointed him commissar of the workers and peasants. ... In January 1924 Lenin died, the country was led by 5 people: Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Lev kamenev ,Grigori Zinoviev and Nikolai Bukharin. ... In 1934 to 1939 during Stalin's "reign of...

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While Stalin focused almost purely on building Russia as an important world power, he was sacrificing both the liberties and lives of millions of Russian people. ... Once again Stalin was sacrificing an advance in living standards and general civil liberties for a straight forward push towards industrial progress. ... Propaganda was extensively used to instil pride and a series of goals among the working people in the towns. ... During these plans large scale industry saw enormous success for example from 1932-1940 Russia coal production rose from 64 million tons to 150. ... Although they do...

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In the Cold War period there existed an 'invisible wall' in the Sea of Japan. The Cold War ended about 10 years ago. ... During the period of the former Soviet Union the Far East was placed a resource base and a munitions-producing base for a whole country. ... The Railways were subsidized by the State budget during the socialist period. ... The another aspect relates to the end of the Cold War. ...

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Remark during a visit to the U.S. ... It ended a long civil war against the remnants of the old Czarist military system and established institutions in government. ... Millions of people were arrested and either harassed or killed. ... During this period the Second World War broke out and drained most of what was left of the already impoverished state. ... Stalin was named a war hero. ...

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Christiana Lodder confirms in Art of the Soviets this revolutionary step in including art as a major collation within the government when she explains "Lenin's Plan For Monumental Propaganda [is] immensely important because for the first time art was directly harnessed to the service of the state and its ideology" (16). ... His plan embraced the arts and drew up concrete foundational concepts to propagandize new communist ideology and implement it into the hearts and minds of the people. ... A utopian future lay ahead of the people for Russian and for this moment in history a vision of...

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