On the third of April 1917, with Lenin's return to Russia, he announced a republic for Soviet of Workers, Poor Peasants and Peasants" Deputies, and his "April Theses" - his plans for the future. ... His push for the revolution to take place in October 1917, with scepticism from other members in the party given the disastrous July Days, was proven to be a correct decision; as the Provisional government crumbled under the threat and the Bolsheviks took power. ... Lenin's leadership and ability to lead the Bolsheviks is also undeniable, the October 1917 Revolution being one that require...

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The Russian Civil War lasted from October 1917 to October 1922. ... These units were formed in 1917, but after a year, some reorganized into the Red Army. ... "In not more than a month's time terror will assume very violent forms, after the example of the great French Revolution; the guillotine... will be ready for our enemies... that remarkable invention of the French Revolution which makes man shorter by a head." ... Lenin was aiming for this goal from the start when he announced his "Call to Power" speech in 1917. ... " This ended the Russian Civil War. ...

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The Bolshevik dictatorship established after the October Revolution was very quickly faced with numerous monumental crises. ... By the middle of 1918 these various groups held more than two-thirds of Russian soil, and threatened to take control of the central regions currently under Bolshevik control. ... In October 1917 the Bolsheviks inherited an economy on the brink of collapse. ... Conclusions on the Russian revolution vary greatly in their point of view. ... The Bolshevik's, whilst formed in a grounding of traditional Marxism, gradually changed their ideas to suit the Russian...

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He would read literature written by Karl Marx, a German political philosopher, and soon he would join the revolution called Russian Marxism. ... Stalin would continue a cycle of getting arrested and excelled to Siberia eight times between 1902 and 1917. ... During the first world war, moral was low in the Russian Army. ... Their resentment peaked in February 1917, when a group of soldiers took over the town of St. ... Stalin didn't really have much to do with the revolution, he wrote a few editorials for a popular Russian newspaper, but his contributions where minimal at best. ...

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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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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. ... During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ... 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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He became sort of a "rebel" in 1898 when he founded the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. When he participated in the Russian Revolution, it was a definite turning point for him in his life. ... After the Russian Revolution he was elected president of the St. ... When he eventually escaped, he soon became second in command after Lenin in 1917, and then in 1918 he was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs. ... He wrote many books and articles on the nature of the USSR, fascism, the process of revolution, and cultural issues. ...

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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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Joseph was born December 21 1879 in Gori, Georgia, Russia. ... Joseph spoke only Georgian until he was 8, when he learned to speak Russian. ... In 1917 after the overthrowing or the Russian czar Stalin was able to return where as a result of the February and October revolutions he was named Commissar of nationality affairs of the communist party. 1918 was Stalin's time to shine as a military power, he served as a general of the red army in a civil war which lasted for 3 years, Lenin then appointed him commissar of the workers and peasants. ... The grim time that Stalin's advisors...

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He had been decorated for his bravery, and been wounded too, by March 1917 as the revolution, and change of government, swept away the old monarchist order. ... Russia's air fleet was equally successful. ... The Russians employed aerial rockets in this battle, for the first time in air warfare. ... In German hands it would block Russian attempts to destroy German armies between the Don and Caucasus. ... The occupying Russian army was fanatical. ...

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