... and Trotsky was arrested, leaving Stalin and Yakob Sverdlov (another prominent Bolshevik) temporarily in charge of the Bolsheviks. After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). This decline only proved temporary, ... relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly there...

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... and Trotsky was arrested, leaving Stalin and Yakob Sverdlov (another prominent Bolshevik) temporarily in charge of the Bolsheviks. After Lenin's return several months later, Stalin's influence rapidly declined (due to his failure to completely agree with all of Lenin's positions, including his advocacy of an "armed revolution" to overthrow the Provisional Government). This decline only proved temporary, ... relatively bloodless coup, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. Although Stalin apparently had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly there...

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... affair and the Lenin's persuasion of the soviet to support the Bolshevik seizure of power. Once Lenin had seized power, a new threat loomed, consolidating his newly gained power. Just after the revolution Lenin immediately began organising similar take-overs across Russia, by the ... end of October only a handful of regions remained loyal to the provisional government. The main threat to Lenin's new empire came in the form of the white movement, a movement from within, a movement from abroad, but in all cases a civil war. Without Lenin's decisive leadership the Bolshevik ... party would...

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... 1914, he had attended a number of Party Congresses and risen high in Lenin's favor, who appointed him to the Bolshevik Central Committee. It was at this time that he adopted the name "Stalin," meaning "steel one." In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. From March until November of that year, Russia was ruled by a Provisional Government, which made plans ... for a democratically elected assembly. 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. The new governmen...

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... the Russian peasantry was a viable revolutionary force, but lacked the capability of developing on its own. Lenin believed that an outside force was needed to guide the working class into revolution. His solution was a revolutionary party that would come from the bourgeoisie and be composed mainly of middle class intellectuals. Digging farther he describes the party as being a small, highly ... businessmen, landowners and anyone opposed to his rule. In regards to this ideal Stalin and Lenin were in complete agreement but their major divergence was in regards to international socialist ...

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... Kochanii argued that 'Bloody Sunday is to be one of the key events which led to the end of Tsardom and also the Russian Revolution of 1917. The event has significance in that it was the first time the government used terror with such intensity, rather than reform. ... did use terror, for example Bloody Sunday, it backfired and caused more opposition rather than preserved autocracy. Under the rule of Lenin and the Bolshevik party, 1917 "1923 the forces of reaction were successful in preserving a dictatorship with the use of terror as a main instrument. Putting into ... not merely inspi...

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... solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. The bitter struggle for survival of the Soviet Union in its early stage, in particular the Civil War ... believed that Marxism-Leninism was expansionist by nature. The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. This contributed to suspicio...

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... and the rest of the world have slowly become aware what really happened during Stalin' rule. Stalin was initially opposed to te overthrow of A. Kerensky's Provisional Government in the Russian Revolution of 1917. He was won over to Lenin's position following the latter's return from exile in April, but played only a secondary role in the Bolsheviks" seizure of power on November ... 's death in January 1924, Kamenev and Zinoviev governed the party. During this period, Stalin advanced the policy of building socialism in one country, in contrast to Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. ...

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