The novel, though, was actually meant by Orwell to be a satire of Russia during its revolutionary period from the Czar Nicholas II to Trotsky and Stalin. ... Later on, Leon Trotsky, Stalin's Commissar of War and Chairman of the Supreme Military Council, became his greatest opposition and a dangerous threat to his absolute power due to his superior intelligence and ideas. ... (Pravda March 2, 1930) After adopting Trotsky's philosophies and integrating them into his own, Stalin had Trotsky exiled to prevent him from taking over. ... Farmer Jones is Czar Nicholas II, Overthrown...

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(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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They formed the Military Revolutionary Committee under Leon Trotsky. ... After Lenin's death in 1924, there was a keen struggle between his lieutenants Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, for taking his place. ...

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Some may argue that Trotsky also held a main role but he was not a member of the party at the time were Lenin wrote and constructed his theses and therefore during the pre-condition phase was not as vital in Lenin's initial success. Although throughout the civil war and the critical phase in general, Lenin relied upon Trotsky's brilliant mind and military organizational skills to achieve greatness, it was Lenin's drive and the conviction along with his unfailing commitment which struck those around him and drew them into the orbit that was Lenin. ... Leon Trotsky also joined...

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The ministry of foreign affairs was changed to the People's Commissariat of foreign affairs and led by Leon Trotsky; however he approached his job with the expectance of an immediate worldwide communist revolution. ...

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Stalin was born as Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879 in Gori, Georgia. He grew up in a mountain town of about 5,000 people. He was the third and only surviving child of Vissarion Dzhugashvili and Catherine Geladze. His father used to drink and beat him and his mother; this mad...

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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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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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