One is that it was an attempt to put communist ideology into practice, a view that originated in the nineteen twenties. ... This last stage was called communism by Marx and the Bolsheviks began to call themselves communists after the civil war. ... It seems that they were desperate to create what could call a communist state. ... Left Communists criticized the employment of these experts in industrial committees and believed that they were dangerously bureaucratizing the administration of the national e...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Stalin claimed that the old left opposition with a "Leningrad Opposition center" was conspiring against him and the communist party and that Kirov murder was connected to this. ... The communist party monitored the Soviet Unions painters, writers, poets, painters, and made sure that they all supported the government. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." ... Stalin appealed to that "Great Russian chauvinism" and to the Bolsheviks and many citizens who retained a fervent Communist idealism . ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Lenin believed that until he obtained European support and the ensuing transition to a communist society was complete, laws were necessary "to suppress the resistance of classes hostile to the proletariat." ... Stalin appealed to that "Great Russian chauvinism" and to the Bolsheviks and many citizens who retained a fervent Communist idealism . ...

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Lenin's death in 1924 gave way to a fierce struggle for power developed among the members of the Politburo (the ruling body of the Communist Party which decided its policies) who had to choose which of them should take his place. ... Zinoviev raked up all the old disagreements of Trotsky with Lenin, while Kamenev explained to the young communists that Trotsky had been a Menshevik (opposing to Bolsheviks) for several years "and once a Menshevik, always a Menshevik". ... Lenin wrote in his Testament: "Comrade Stalin having become Secretary [of the Communist Party] has unlimited authority ...

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Stalin Josef Stalin was the communist leader of Russia from about 1929 to his death in 1953. ... He established communist governments in each of these countries, each of which was completely loyal to him. ...

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Animal Farm: Satire on Communist Russia Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is at the surface a simple novel of a group of animals living and working under the oppression of a tyrannical farmer who successfully overthrow him with a plan to live independently which backfires on them and ends them up under the even more dictatorial rule of the pigs. ... Farmer Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Overthrown by the revolution and later executed by the Bolsheviks; Old Major is Marx and perhaps Marxist-Leninism; Boxer and Clover represent the proletariat (the urban industrial worker)-and more remotely ...

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Old Major-s role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. ... After Lenin-s death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. ...

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Old Major's role compares to Lenin and Marx whose ideas were to lead to the communist revolution. ... After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. ...

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The Bolsheviks triumphed so he was elected a member of the Communist Party's highest decision-making body, the Politburo, and the Central Committees Organisational Bureau in 1919. ... Stalin continued his post as Commissar for State Control until 1922 when we was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party, a position which gave him control over appointments and helped establish a base for his political power. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Stalin Josef Stalin was the communist leader of Russia from about 1929 to his death in 1953. ... He established communist governments in each of these countries, each of which was completely loyal to him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In his rise to power, Stalin held a number of senior administrative posts within the Soviet government and party apparatus, becoming in April 1922 general secretay of the ruling Communist Party, a post which he subsequently built up into the most powerful in the country. ...

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In everyone's life there exist stages, which change you in one way or another, some help you discover your true self. The film Frida, directed by Julie Taymor, reveals the amazing life story of Frida Kahlo. The life of the famous Mexican painter, Frida, changes drastically after her accident on t...

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The abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in March 1917, was a result of numerous significant factors. The causes of his downfall included his lack of leadership, poor decisions, the changing social conditions and the rise of opposition groups such as the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The abdication led Russia to change significantly with immediate consequences such as political turmoil, short term consequences such as the revolution and long term consequences such as Stalin ruling of Russia. All these resulted in an overall change in how Russia was ruled from autocracy to communism. In 1...

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LENIN"S ROLE IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known famously as Lenin, died on the 21st of January in 1924 after having suffered many strokes. The sweeping state funeral followed in Moscow where his embalmed corpse was laid to rest in a mausoleum built outside the Kremlin's walls. The cult that surrounded him was phenomenal and his teachings and theories are still widely taught and discerned today. His political tactics and revolutionary ideas gave rise to his somewhat meteoric fame. ...

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• Grade Level: High School