The government contained him only once; his last exile in 1913 lasted until 1917. ... In 1917, Stalin managed to escape from Siberia and immediately headed for Petrograd, (modern St. Petersburg) upon hearing that the February Revolution had brought about the abdication of the Tsar and the installation of the Provincial Government. ... Nevertheless, Stalin was re-elected to the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party on April 27, 1917. ... On November 7, 1917 (October 25 on the Soviet calendar), the Bolsheviks seized power in a relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Govern...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. ... Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... A number of miscalculations, however, along with the strain of continuing the war with Germany, paved the way for a Bolshevik coup in November of 1917. ...

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Russia might have preferred it as well. ... Just like other big cities in the Russian Empire, Tiflis was full of under ground political movements, which were not happy with the way things were in Russia. ... In 1917 Koba returned to Petrograd what was the capital of Russia at the time, to join his comrades after the unrest of the February Revolution. ... She was sixteen years old when Stalin returned from exile in 1917, Nadya instantly was in love with the romantic revolutionary. After the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, Nadya became Stalin's personal assistant. ...

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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. ... He had a good relationship with the Russian people, which was boosted by him leading them out of the July days. ... Despite this, after the revolution in 1917, the Party quickly discovered that coping with the complexities of government obliged it to become more centralised. ...

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