Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). ... Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities withi...

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As the bourgeois became more wealthy the working class would grow ever more impoverished leading to a revolution and the establishment of what is called the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. ... It ends with Carl marx's stating "let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. ... Revolution Stalin played an important, but not vital, part in the revolution. ... Production of industrial machinery and farm equipment became more important, and production of cloth...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's...

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He saw that industrially and agriculturally Russia was at least a hundred years behind the rest of the Western world. ... Stalin's solution to the problem of industrial and agricultural backwardness was his five year plans of collectivization and breakneck industrialization. ... They were charged with many crimes, such as plotting industrial sabotage, collaborating with Trotsky to restore capitalism in the Soviet Union and planning to kill Stalin himself. ...

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