Like many other great rulers like the Austrian born German Hitler and the Corsican born French leader Napoleon, Stalin was an outsider in the empire he came to rule. ... The intellectuals of the time opposed the strict control thrusted upon them by the ruling government and embraced violent ideologies to bring about political change. ... In this utopian setting, all class distinctions would be abolished as would national governments and religion which Marx regarded as tools of bourgeois oppression on the working class. ... Lenin worked most closely with Leon Trotsky in the Bolshevik take over...

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This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

• Word Count: 5545
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• Grade Level: High School

This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

This trend was followed when Stalin came to power as leader of the Communist party and the Russian government in 1929. (2) He had achieved this through plotting and trickery and by shifting alliances. ... For example Stalin engineered a communist coup in May 1948 in Czechoslovakia in which a government minister Masaryk was killed and the president was forced to resign. (7) This served a warning to other countries against resisting the communist regime. ... In East Germany in 1953 there were a series of strikes and protests. (8) The Russians, under Stalin, used their armed forces to...

• Word Count: 5545
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

Also in 1815, Russia joined Prussia and Austria in forming the Holy Alliance, in an alliance against the other dominant European nations. ... The Bolsheviks (later communists), led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the existing Russian government. ...

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• Grade Level: High School