Furthermore it must be brought to attention the staggering time differences in Lenin and Stalin's time in power (Lenin ruled for six years, while Stalin ruled for almost thirty). ... In 1935 Stalin published A Short Course: The History of the All-Union Communist Party. ... A major deviation occurs between Lenin and Stalin over the concept of the classless society. ... Lenin mostly used these tactics on external forces while Stalin used it on everybody. The best example of Stalin's violent excess can be seen in his article: "The Great Turn". ...

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Industrialisation was the primary goal of Lenin and Stalin, as well as many communist party members. ... By doing this with the argument of war Stalin kept his rightist support and reunited the Communist party behind the Five Year Plans, massively increasing Stalin's personal power whilst discarding the rightist's power. ... There were also economic reasons to embark on wide scale rapid industrialisation as Stalin proposed. ... The five-year plans presented an opportunity to Stalin to glorify him at the foundations of the communist party. ... Stalin was shown as the master, forcing t...

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Also, by a secret agreement with Roosevelt, Stalin promised to declare war on Japan three months after the end of hostilities in Europe. ... At the time of the Yalta Conference, both Roosevelt and Churchill had trusted Stalin and believed that he would keep his word. Neither leader had suspected that Stalin intended that all Popular Front governments in Europe would be taken over by communists. ... However, at Yalta, they gave into Stalin. ... Roosevelt got Stalin to sign the "The Declaration of Liberated Europe-, and for this reason presented the Yalta conference as a great achievement. ...

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On the 25th of June 1991, both Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia declared themselves indepent from the former Republic of Yugoslavia. This was the result of the struggle maily between Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia, to establish some kind of Yugoslavia under a confederation after Tito's death. Th...

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