Following this the NKVD arrested other members of the Old Left Opposition. ... Stalin was referred to as "Man of Steel", "Iron Soldier," and even "Universal Genius." ... A man wrote how Stalin had improved his love life he says, " All thanks to thee, O great educator, Stalin. ... The entire social and culture of the Soviet Union was altered due to one man's actions. ... He was deported by ship to the forbidding Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

At this moment eleven men entered the room: Yurovsky (an Old Bolshevik), his assistant, two members of the Extraordinary Commission.The execution had taken place, all the members of the Tsar's family were lying on the floor with many wounds in their bodies. ... Outnumbered and outmaneuvered, the Russians suffered one humiliating defeat after another, both on land and sea. ... They believed that Nicholas was a good man but at that time the Tsar was at his summer residence outside the city. ... The grand duke wisely declined the title, bringing the 304-year-old Romanov dynasty to an end. .....

• Word Count: 1936
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This began when he assumed the name Stalin "man of steel" and it was this vision of him that drove him to lead the revolution that was to change the face of the Soviet Union forever. ... The Sea Canal and the Moscow underground were also built during this period of expansion.iii As a result of this massive increase in industry, there was a need for more technical expertise and so another stage of his revolution followed. ... Social activities for young people were also organised by Soviet Union officials through pioneer organisations aimed at seven to thirteen year olds and through Komsomol f...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Zinoviev raked up all the old disagreements of Trotsky with Lenin, while Kamenev explained to the young communists that Trotsky had been a Menshevik (opposing to Bolsheviks) for several years "and once a Menshevik, always a Menshevik". ... According to many of Stalin's servants "no better man ever walked the earth" thus creating a questioning , which representation is states the most accurate description of Stalin. ... Meanwhile, Trotsky had contracted a malarial infection and his doctor insisted that he should leave for a cure at Sukhum, on the Black Sea. ... He indicated that the fir...

• Word Count: 1922
• Approx Pages: 8