Following Lenin and Trotsky's revolution and reign in Russia, Stalin began his massive political, social, and economic changes in 1928 with the First Five Year Plan, which was designed to cause rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture. ... He aimed to make Russia militarily and industrially self sufficient, build a foundation for a worker's society, and expel the stereotype of Russia as being "backward ". ... Using the Industrial Revolution of Great Britain as a example, Stalin caused a agricultural revolution by his process of collectivization, which created c...

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This began when he assumed the name Stalin "man of steel" and it was this vision of him that drove him to lead the revolution that was to change the face of the Soviet Union forever. ... In order to begin his revolution he ensured there were no objections to him as leader through the elimination of party leaders such as: Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev. ... This revolution was primarily concerned with making the Soviet Union strong and powerful enough to withstand any external threat. ... Stalin saw the Kulaks as a threat to the enforcement of his agricultural policy and in turn to his revolut...

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Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities withi...

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The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... The Bolsheviks seize power in the "October" Revolution in 1917. ... However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. Therefore, we could argue that the US primarily and the West as a whole ...

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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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