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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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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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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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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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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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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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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According to this agreement, both Britain and Russia would have 90% dominance in Greece and Romania respectively; Russia would have predominance in Bulgaria with 75%; and in Hungary and Yugoslavia the influence of the two great powers was balanced, each having 50% share equally. ... At its height, the Nazi Germany conquered most the Europe, and when Germany would be defeated, this would leave larger part of the continental Europe without any meaningful administrations or governments. The conventional forms of governments in Europe had been discredited, particularly in the East of Europe where ...

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During the first world war, moral was low in the Russian Army. ... The Czar Nicholas II knew his time was up and fled Russia a few days later, ending a 300 year old legacy. The temporary government was put in place, sharing some power with the revolutionaries. Lenin the leader of the Bolshevik party, started to rally the people, and by October, they had seized power of the government. ... One of Stalin's first moves as leader of the Soviet Union was to replace Lenin's New Economic Policy with a series of government controlled five year plans. ...

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Truman barely saw President Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the development of the atomic bomb or the unfolding difficulties with Soviet Russia. ... The end of World War II was also the end of a wartime alliance between America and Russia, as Truman and Stalin could not agree of the division of Europe (Divine 666). ... The overreaction to possibility of Soviet danger only fueled the fire of the rising Cold War and the rising fears the west believed about Russia. ... This was a perfect time for North Korea to begin a plan of attack, as they gained support from the Russians and the Chi...

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From his youth Stalin decided upon the kind of regime he ultimately wished to put in force within Russia. ... When the government came to realise the increasing amount of unrest that was growing among the peasants as a result of the government's failure to provide a liveable wage from collectivised farming, Stalin issued the Kolhoz Charter in February 1935. ... As a result 2.1 million Kulaks were exiled from Russia, 2.5 million were resettled and another 1.5 million fled to other regions. ... Russian production increased by 250% between 1929 and 1933. ... The school curriculum was dosed w...

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The struggle to succeed Lenin was a turning point of the Russian revolution. ... The Rightists (Bukharin, Tomsky and Rykov) believed that the government must continue Lenin's New Economic Policy for at least the next twenty years. ... Also the C.C decided not to publish the Testament so must Russians never got to know what Lenin really thought about Stalin. In fact, once Stalin was established as dictator he used propaganda to misled the Russian people that he was Lenin's choice as his successor. ... Stalin believed that the USSR must always come first in the government's plans...

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Kirov was Russian who was very popular, a very well spoken and sociable person and a possible rival to Stalin's position. ... How exactly were the innocent Russians picked up and taken to their deaths prison or deported too far off places? ... The communist party monitored the Soviet Unions painters, writers, poets, painters, and made sure that they all supported the government. ... Still today Russians such as Dmitry Likhachev live in fear of a return to the past due to Stalin's inhumane actions. ...

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" Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, former prisoner of the Gulag and critic of Soviet totalitarianism. ... It was this fear of the people that Stalin wanted, because if all people are living in fear of speaking out against the government, then the government is able to do as it pleases with no challenge. ... This is just one of the many issues with having a society in which it is impossible to speak out against the government. ... The book was revolutionary to the Soviet people because it brought the awareness of the atrocities committed by the government against i...

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His comment implies that the information the public receives can, and frequently is, skewed by the government. ... Animal Farm is most famous as a stinging critique of the history and rhetoric of the Russian Revolution. ... Stalin's tyrannical rule and eventual abandonment of the founding principles of the Russian Revolution are represented by the pigs' turn to violent government and the adoption of human traits and behaviors, the trappings of their original oppressors. ...

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The difficulty infiltrating the Soviet government is precisely what the author wanted and makes his plot more interesting by making it more complex. ... The death of his family and drinking, as many other people in Soviet Union do, made the person realistic enough to be believed in (pp. 58-9, Life in Russia). ... Anyone speaking out against the government should have been punished. ...

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