Through coercive tactics this new government seized power in 1917 and Lenin came to power. ... These purges would later spread all throughout the government and into the public. ... This was the organizational restructuring of the Soviet economy and government apparatus. ... By February 1992, approximately ninety per cent of consumer goods were being sold without any form of government control. ... He directed much of his energy toward Chechnya, whose government had been trying to secede from Russia since 1991. ...

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As Russian wasn't Joseph's first language, he learnt it by the time he was nine. ... Each year you would have to hand over a certain amount of grain to the government which you would eventually get paid for. ... Stalin changed the whole world's perception of USSR and for the first time in history Russia was getting influence in Europe and was incorporated with a lot of European events. ...

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During the year 1917, two revolutions took place in Russia. ... This brought the Czarism in Russia to an end. ... The Allied powers soon recognized the provisional government; it was considered the 'legal successor' to the Czarist government. ... Thus a Dual Power was established by the revolution, namely the Provisional Government and the government of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. ... However Kerensky's new coalition Government soon grew unpopular. ...

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Socialism work was the way for Russia to industrialize quickly. ... He used collectivization of farmland, where small farms were combined into larger farms under government control. ... Military and secret police used mass executions and deportations to enforce obedience to Russia. ... With he five-year plan; he intended to make Russia an industrial power. ... He believed that Russia had to grow a good amount in ten years, or they would go under. ...

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To what extent were the forces of reaction successful in using terror to preserve autocracy and dictatorships in Russia and the Soviet Union 1855-1955? ... Historian Lionel Kochanii argued that 'Bloody Sunday is to be one of the key events which led to the end of Tsardom and also the Russian Revolution of 1917. The event has significance in that it was the first time the government used terror with such intensity, rather than reform. ... Additionally the defeat of Russia in the World War, increased levels of discontent, reducing the chances of sustainability in regards to the Imperial ...

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Russian Revolution began with the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917. The Government was then taken over in the absence of the Czar by a group of bankers, lawyers, industrialists and capitalists. ... The main goal of the Bolsheviks was to set up a government for the proletariat, or working class. The Provisional Government finally fell when thousands of Red Guards(armed workers) stormed the Winter Palace at the signal from the battleship Aurora and overran it, sealing the Provisional Government's fate. Lenin immediately began his attempt to construct a ...

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Russia, an inert sleeping giant before 1914, now became industrialised at an unbelievable speed. Stalin's industrialisation did make Russia a very successful industrial country. ... It must be noted however that most ordinary Russians lived in extreme poverty and had very few rights during this period. ... Enforced collectivisation did what it set out to do but also caused a bitter dispute between the Kulaks and the government. ... In conclusion, we can say that Stalin's policies did make Russia a very successful industrial country. ...

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His idea was to collectivize all the farms so that they could produce more and be owned by the government. ... The farmers that worked on these farms had to hand over a certian amount of the produce no matter what to the government. ... There land was stripped from them and turned over to the government and if anyone disagreed Stalin would have them killed. The peasants were forced to work on the farms and paid when they brought in there goods to the government. ... Many people were killed and this were tooken by the government, but this made the Country better and stronger. ...

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In Stalin's Russia, his regime of totalitarianism controlled every aspect of Russian society. ... In fact, no Russian citizen could leave the country without special government permission. ... His metaphor shows how the new German government took control of every aspect of German society, similar to Stalin's regime in Russia. ... The government created the National Labor Front, which banned strikes and placed smaller Fuhrers in charge of factories. ... In Russia, Stalin's Five Year Plans created temporary discomfort among the Russian people. ...

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The aftermath of the second world war left the US and Russia as the highest dominant military powers, but they had completely different government regimes and economic regimes. ... The new Bolshevik Government had also signed a ceasefire treaty with Germany and negotiated a peace-treaty, The treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Russia's allies, the French and British, felt betrayal from Russia as they backed out from the war. ... This was false and at the face of this new threat, Russia quickly realized its 'allies' were in no rush to help them contain Hitler and his new system of Nazism a...

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Georgians possessed their own culture and language which was very different from the official Russian language of the empire, and the young Stalin only began learning Russian when he was nine years old. ... It is reported that in his last years his ability to speak Russian deteriorated and he spoke only Georgian. The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. ... His timing was excellent becasue the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had just been founded wh...

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Orwell laments that the 1917 Russian Revolution resulted in a government more totalitarian and oppressive than the one it overthrew. Manor Farm represents Russia, and Old Major, Snowball, and Napoleon represent the prominent figures of the Russian Revolution namely Marx/ Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin respectively. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution took place. This was when the government led by the Tsars was overthrown and Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power. ... George Orwell and other supporters of the Russian Revolution were disillusioned. ...

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Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin Born on May 4, 1870 this son of a Russian nobleman was to have a great effect on the future of Russia and, the world. ... This event led to several uprisings in Russia. ... Lenin made a deal with the German's; if they could get him safely back to Russia, he would take power and pull Russia out of the war. ... The problems of the new government were enormous. ... The Russian Orthodox Church was disestablished. ...

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The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. ... Until the last years of the czarist Russia, Stalin was more an up-and -coming follower than a leader. ... Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... Stalin argued strongly for the continuation of the war and for cooperation with the Provisional Government. ... On November 15, Stalin revealed the Decree on Nationality, which stated that the new Bolshevik government would treat all ethnic minorities...

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However, I should mention that the US government could not simply accept the fact that a country could exist with economic and political principles so critically opposed to democracy and industrial capitalism. ... Under the new Government Russia wants to withdraw from the World War I that they were involved in at that time. ... An angry Khrushchev said in Los Angeles in 1959: "Never have any of our soldiers been on American soil, but your soldiers were on Russian soil." ... He wanted to build up Russian control of the Eastern Europe that was seen by the west as an act of aggression. ... Hist...

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Georgia was an independent country until the Russian Tsars conquered it. ... The students could have no privacy and were spied on by the Russian Orthodox monks. ... After the takeover of the government, Stalin became a member of the new government's Soviet of People's Commissars, heading the Commissariat for Nationality Affairs. ... During this time, Stalin re-married a Nadezhda Alliluyeva in 1918 and moved to Moscow because of his job in the government. ... He had started off as a young revolutionist, aiming for a better government and a better life. ...

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Soviet Jews raised great hope for future friendship and cooperation with the government . ... Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, "effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party,"...

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Soviet Jews raised great hope for future friendship and cooperation with the government . ... Lenin's Bolshevik ("Majority" in Russian) party was formed in 1903 with the objective of a stagiest societal evolution of Europe and Russia in the gradual progression from feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism, and to eventual communism. In the October Revolution of 1917, Lenin succeeded in establishing the Soviet Government, and after the 1920 Bolshevik victory in the Civil War, he gained his party political isolation, "effectively limiting the Soviet Government to only one political party,"...

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Joseph was born December 21 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russia. ... Joseph spoke only Georgian until he was 8, when he learned to speak Russian. ... Joseph finally got the chance to meet Lenin in 1905 at a conference in Finland Lenin noticed that Stalin was very dedicated and loyal to Lenin's cause so Lenin appointed Joseph to work for his cause by raising money for the Bolsheviks by any means necessary this involved robbing banks and government money. ... The grim time that Stalin's advisors advised him about came about in June of 1941 , Hitler's armies swept across the mothe...

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The Bay of Pigs invasion was organized by the CIA and was intended to overthrow Castro, whose Communist government, in Cuba, lay just 90 miles from the Florida coast. ... Nikita Khrushchev was born to a poor family in Kalinovka, near the village of Kursk in southwestern Russia. ... He joined the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) in 1918 and served in the Red Army as a junior political officer during the Russian Civil War (1918-1921). ... The Cuban government later released the captured exiles after a ransom was paid. ... In reality we have to look no further than the American government. ...

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(Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. From March until November of that year, Russia was ruled by a Provisional Government, which made plans for a democratically elected assembly. ... The new government, led by Lenin, made peace with the Germans and undertook a bloody, three-year civil war, in which Stalin commanded on several fronts. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly install Communist governments in Eastern Europe and further his country's interests around the...

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Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. ... He was political commisaar of the Soviet Army during the Russian Civil War and Polish-Soviet War. ... Later, his government reversed most of Stalin's deportations although it was not until 1991 that the Tatars, Meskhs and Volga Germans were allowed to return to their homelands. ... Both men desperately wanted Russia to catch up to the western European states. Both succeeded to an extent, turning Russia temporarily into Europe's leading power. ...

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Stalin greatly reformed Russia, and advanced Russia at the expense of the common citizens. ... He established communist governments in each of these countries, each of which was completely loyal to him. ... Stalin left a great mark on Russia. ... Stalin did improve Russia's industrial system, but he had a negative effect on Russian society. ... Stalin's reforms of Russia modernized and advanced Russia, but at the expense of the common Russian citizens. ...

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Stalin greatly reformed Russia, and advanced Russia at the expense of the common citizens. ... He established communist governments in each of these countries, each of which was completely loyal to him. ... Stalin left a great mark on Russia. ... Stalin did improve Russia's industrial system, but he had a negative effect on Russian society. ... Stalin's reforms of Russia modernized and advanced Russia, but at the expense of the common Russian citizens. ...

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Orwell intended to criticize the communist regime he saw sweeping through Russia and spreading to Europe and even the United States. Though he agreed with many Marxist values, Orwell couldn't really accept the communist understanding of socialism because he saw many similarities between the communist governments and the previous tzarist regimes in old Russia. ... The pigs and dogs take most of the power for themselves, thinking that they are the best proprietors of government. ... From a symbolic point of view, the windmill represents the enormous transformation projects undertook in So...

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