Stalin joined up with the Bolshevik revolutionaries. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution took place. This was when the government led by the Tsars was overthrown and Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power. After Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, Stalin gained control of the party. ... George Orwell and other supporters of the Russian Revolution were disillusioned. ...
Following the death of Lenin in January 1924, the Bolshevik Party was left without its Messiah. ... Perhaps, had Trotsky wooed the Bolshevik bureaucrats he would have been more successful. ... This led him to accuse supporters of Stalin as being "worms who crawl from the upturned soil of the manured revolution." ... Trotsky was true to the Marxist doctrine by insisting that revolution must be permanent and spread across the world. ... By the time Stalin assumed complete control in 1929 the Bolshevik Party had little in common with Lenin's ideological elite group. ...
This disagreement led to the eventual split of the Social Democratic party into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. ... Lenin returned to Russia for two years but the promised revolution did not happen as the Tsar made enough concessions to calm the people. Lenin went abroad again. 1917 was to finally see the revolution in Russia. In fact two revolutions occurred in this year. ... There was opposition and this led to a civil war in 1918 between the Mensheviks (Whites) and the Bolsheviks (Reds). ...
The second chapter, Stalin in the revolution, explains the role that Stalin played in the revolution that started in February 1917 and the consequences of that revolution. ... In 1912, Lenin created the central comity of the Bolshevik party. ... The revolution of 1917 brought Stalin back to Petrograd, and resumed to his post of director of the journal Pravda. ... Unlike Trotsky, Stalin believed that socialism could be introduced in one country without being accompanied by a world revolution. ...
The other party was the Bolsheviks, who promoted revolutionary ideas. Stalin escaped from prison and went back to join the Bolsheviks which was ran by Vladimir Lenin. ... To kick start the industrial and agricultural revolution he made the Five Year Plan. ...
When Stalin got Trotsky exiled, he removed all the other original Bolsheviks from key positions in order to establish complete control, in 1928. ... One by one, the old Bolsheviks were arrested, some shot, others forced to confess to ridiculous charges after torture in order to be saved or to save their families. ... " The names of his rivals were then removed from official histories of the revolution. ...
Joseph finally got the chance to meet Lenin in 1905 at a conference in Finland Lenin noticed that Stalin was very dedicated and loyal to Lenin's cause so Lenin appointed Joseph to work for his cause by raising money for the Bolsheviks by any means necessary this involved robbing banks and government money. ... 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...
