The main threat to Lenin's new empire came in the form of the white movement, a movement from within, a movement from abroad, but in all cases a civil war. ... Service argues that Lenin during the Civil war was too quick to resort to the Cheka and Red army stating; "Lenin preferred to overdo the blows than to risk letting an opponent survive the assault"[5] this could be seen as especially significant when we re-examine Lenin's use of force during the Kronstadt mutiny, although some would argue that this was an overuse of force, during the Civil war Lenin could not afford ...

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During the final year of the war, the British premier, Winston S. ... The WWII also devastated much of Europe's economy, and the Europe's industrial heart had been laid waste as more than 16m people were left as homeless (Phillips et al. 2009). ... For instance, the Soviet Union had been invaded for three times by the West: initially by Germany during the WWI, then by those who helped the Whites during the Russian Civil War, and finally by the Nazi German again during the WWII. Every time the losses from the Russian were considerable, but the losses during the WWII were unprecedented...

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It has proved very difficult to achieve these objectives during the last ten years (Harris). ... Lenin's government would eventually end a long civil war and begin to censor and subordinate all political parties to itself. ... The citizens during this period endured great hardship. ... After World War II, miraculously national unity was strengthened, as well as the Soviet Army. ... This was the organizational restructuring of the Soviet economy and government apparatus. ...

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Vladimir Putin The Russian government is one of constant ideological change, from the left of October Revolutionist Lenin to the extreme right wing values of Josef Stalin during World War II. ... He frequently tries to undermined Yeltin's free market economy by arresting powerful Oligarch's. ... It insists that Putin used the bombings to initiate some sort of pretext of war with Chechnya, who where the ones accused of doing the act. ... Even though this comes at the expense of the citizens, it really does show him to be an Authoritarian and against the civil liberties of the Gor...

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Vladimir Putin The Russian government is one of constant ideological change, from the left of October Revolutionist Lenin to the extreme right wing values of Josef Stalin during World War II. ... He frequently tries to undermined Yeltin's free market economy by arresting powerful Oligarch's. ... It insists that Putin used the bombings to initiate some sort of pretext of war with Chechnya, who where the ones accused of doing the act. ... Even though this comes at the expense of the citizens, it really does show him to be an Authoritarian and against the civil liberties of the Gor...

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During this time the leader of the Bolsheviks, Lenin, was exiled to Switzerland as he disagreed with the revolutionaries who supported and co-operated with the Provisional Government. ... A short term consequence of the Tsar's abdication on 15 March 1917 was the civil war between the Red and the White armies. ... War communism was during civil war in 1918. During this time small factories nationalised, workers became under government control, private trading was banned and food was strictly rationed. ... Lenin introduced it to the Russian society as the peasants were starving and war co...

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In the end all that has remained from this "decaying" corpse" is a strong oil economy and other raw materials and a strong army although not trained in the arts of combat since the Georgian War was more of a training with live ammunition, but in the end sticking to the Russian side of the road as Lenin said in every quantity is a quality. ... In the end it seems that we go back to where we left it in regards to the Cold War. ... It is most likely that if treated with superficiality this will end up like the Libyan crisis, a country in civil war so this is why we have noticed a change of rheto...

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At this time, war with Japan was impending. ... The defeat in this war and the expense it incurred were direct causes of the revolution which occured just a few weeks later. ... Peasants and workers revolted in an elemental and anarchic rebellion, ultimately turning a large-scale strike and bringing the government, economy, and all public services to a complete halt. ... Moreover, during the very first stages of the revolution, the workers themselves posed in practice not merely democratic problems but also purely socialist ones. ... First, it granted basic civil liberties to all,...

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