To truly understand Stalin as a man, a dictator, a leader we need to assess the country he ruled, its economy, its politics and its social status before and during the time he ruled; not just his actions. ... Baltic- White Sea Canal and the Moscow- Volga Canal. ... Many of the original leaders of the Party, old Bolsheviks like Zinoviev, Kamenov and Bukharin, who still had the respect of many, found themselves on trial. But these trials were not ordinary trials with the purpose of procuring justice; they were constructed to show old party members as traitors. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He worked in Tiflis, and then in the Black Sea port of Batumi, organizing worker protests, which led to his arrest in 1902. ... The following year, another group of old Bolsheviks were subjected to the same treatment. ...

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He expected him to be a superhuman hero, unlike the ordinary and normal-seeming man that he really was. ... Stalin used the name "Koba" until about 1913, when he regularly began signing articles and letters with the name "Stalin" (meaning "man of steel" or "steel one"). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate