(Trotsky, Leon) Trotsky thought the Cheka organization was setting a good warning for anti-Bolsheviks. ... With the leadership of Lenin, General Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky, the Bolsheviks won the Russian Civil War easily. ... Trotsky's leadership helped out through the army. ... At one incident, Trotsky stopped Czech prisoners from fighting the Central Powers by stopping them on the railroad tracks. ... However Trotsky later took back Perm and faced a challenge from Poland. ...

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Joseph Stalin held absolute authority in the Soviet Union for twenty nine years. During his time as dictator he moved the Soviet Union to a world power, while starving and arresting his own people. His brutal dictatorship was one of the bloodiest in history. He can be compared to such leaders like A...

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