Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. ... Never before and never since has the avant-garde been so allied with a reigning government. ... Their culture would now officially be based upon and secured by implications of the newly formed government. ... Implementing Lenin's plan, the Russian avant-garde began to draw plans to decorate all major cities in Russia. ... IZO was Responsible for organizing the country's artistic ideology under the new Soviet Governmen...

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General causes of the Russian Revolution Poverty In order to understand Trotsky's role in the Russian revolution in the year 1917, perhaps an insight into the causes of the Russian revolution would shed light upon some of the reasons as to why he was a major player in the fight. ... Politicized Workforce The urban workforce that fed the government was growing politically and so the political aspect was growing to be an issue that was led to the Russian revolution. ... The Russian revolution fell heavily on the government considering the fact that the workforce from the urban centers part...

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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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(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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Lenin's N.E.P had bought some advances to Russia but the Soviet Union was still very backwards in comparison to the rest of Europe. ... In 1927, this was bought to the surface when the British government raided the Soviet trade mission in London. The Soviet government saw this and other signs as an indication of an anti-Communist conspiracy. Industrialisation was made out to be patriotic by the government and formed an essential pillar in Stalins cry for socialism in one country' theory which promoted building a strong and lasting socialist country. ... Stalin's drive for the f...

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This would have meant that he appealed to the surfs throughout Russia. ... He was a good orator, organised, and worked for the benefit of Russia. ... This meant that he had influence other the minorities, of which there were many throughout Russia. Kamenev's let downs were that he had been opposed to the April Thesis, he wanted a socialist coalition government, and he had had heated debates with Lenin. ... He had a good relationship with the Russian people, which was boosted by him leading them out of the July days. ...

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