... in 1904 was "shocked by the atmosphere of worship of Lenin which people calling themselves Bolshevik's had created"(4) Menshevik and Bolshevik differences were found to face the real dilemma of politics during the 1905 revolution and duma period. The 2 factions demarcated themselves in terms of their ideologies, strategies and tactics. The Bolsheviks formed from a narrow range of peasants and workers. They ... . Lenin did not have a major influence in the fighting of the civil war. The expertise here lay in the hands of Trotsky, he formed the red army into a powerful fighting machine, ab...

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... to the U.S. Quoted in: Independent (London, 13 Sept. 1989). The fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union was more than a political event. The powerful bond between economics and politics that was the integral characteristic of the state socialist system created a situation that was unique for the successor states of the Soviet Union. The Communist regime was so ingrain in ... World War broke out and drained most of what was left of the already impoverished state. Yet after the war national unity was strengthened as well is the Soviet military machine. The Soviet Union became a s...

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