Like Lenin, Stalin was willing to use Terror, force and coercion to achieve his goals. With Stalin at the helm the USSR was truly born. ... There were differences, but Stalin had reached Lenin's impasse of 1921. ... As a result it is nearly impossible to not see Stalin as a defining leader of Russia. ... Stalin was credited by the Russian people with the victory over the Nazi regime, this only helped to strengthen the 'Cult of personality' created by Stalin as yet another means of control. ...

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Under the regimes' of Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicolas II to an extent, terror was not used as extremely as the likes of Lenin and Stalin in the later period of 1900-1950. ... It can be argued that the forces of reaction were most successful in using terror to preserve power under the regime of Joseph Stalin 1929 -1955. ... This then supports the viewpoint that the preservation of power under the rule of Stalin was majorly due to the intensity of his terror. ... Stalin's execution of his generals shows terror abused, which eventually worked against him causing him to lose c...

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Russia continued into a spiraling path away from true Marxist idealism as Lenin died and Stalin gained control of the Central Committee. Idealism, wishing for a unified and industrialized Russia, was no longer regarded and instead realism took over, as Stalin no longer followed Marxist policies. ...

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As the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin was one of the leaders of this new party and was viewed by many as a tyrant who would significantly influence future Russian political parties. Vertov had to please the leaders in government, especially Joseph Stalin; otherwise he would have been banned from making more films. ...

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The October coup of 1917 that resulted in the Bolshevik consolidation of power revealed that all the party's efforts had been directed towards preparing for revolution, however little attention has been given to the details of how affairs would be organized after this was accomplished. Russia was essentially a one party state, with a government who had no detailed programme for leading the country. Lenin's government was presented with an immediate problem - the Bolsheviks had only won a quarter of the seats in the November elections for the Constituent Assembly. Lenin had origin...

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. For this brief time, the culture of the avant-garde was synonymous with official cultural policy of the Soviets. Its leaders were empowered to establish government-sponsored art schools, and an entire system that espoused some of...

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His presence was a major push for the revolution that took place in the year 1917 and so his impact is still felt today since his ideas are indeed the basis that Trotskyism was formed, and this school of thought is said to be in opposition with the Stalinism theories. ...

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