... this varying opinion on the strategies and wishes regarding the revolution. The organized convention that the Iskra won, led to the splitting of the latter into two distinguishable factions. One of the two factions was led by Lenin and his followers who solely wished to have a party that is small and organized in all matters, in other words, disciplined all-round (Service ... . In addition, the farmers refused to sell their food and so inflation hit the market like a bomb. The RSDLP was consisting of Lenin, Trotsky and Martov together with their relative factions that they led (Bolshevik...

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... of the revolution from most of the lower classes that constituted most of the rural Spain. The nationalists at occasion were also joined by other smaller political factions that didn't make a major contribution by themselves, but with the aid of the nationalists, they constituted a major fighting force as well. The communists ... were able to seize factories and other pertinent industries that made the backbone of Spain's industry and land was collectivized. The workers established themselves into small factions from the rural level and then came out to be a big force in the manner of th...

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... be arrested and exiled six times, escaping almost every time. (Siberian exile, in Tsarist Russia, was notoriously easy to escape from.) During this period, the Social Democrats split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, and the Mensheviks. Stalin joined the more radical Bolsheviks, and by the time World War I arrived, in 1914, he had attended a number of ... rise to dominance by destroying his rival Trotsky, expelling him from the party in 1927 and exiling him from the Soviet Union in 1929. Meanwhile, he brilliantly played the Politburo's factions off one an...

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... poisons could be produced and assembled anywhere."" As an open advocate of arms control the US is not helping the effort towards disarmament by selling weapons to countries that have factions that may use them irrationally and without regard for consequence. For example, Turkey, with help from U.S. firms, in 1987 became the first third-world country to produce an advanced U.S. fighter ... ...

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... power. As a country with no government, the Nicaraguan people decided that a coalition government between the parties should take over, but soon the Sandinistas forced all other political parties and independent factions out of the political ring. The Sandinista government managed to lessen some of the nation's poverty by nationalizing banks, businesses and social services for the poor, but national policies that ... ...

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... the Petrograd Soviet, which consisted of workers, soldiers, sailors, and peasants. It is here that open political activity is also legalized. During this period the Marxists split into two rival factions: the Bolsheviks, headed by Lenin, and the Mensheviks, a group of orthodox Marxists who believed capitalism and social democracy must develop on their own. As World War I picks up steam across ... ...

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... by 27 countries including Germany, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and Italy. Here is how non-intervention worked: Most major powers by international agreement decided to deny arms to the factions in Spain. Britain and France abided by the pact; Germany and Italy did not. The dictators promptly began to pump arms in Franco's direction. Later, Stalin sent arms to the ... ...

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... managed to solve the insecurity present in Russia in the 1920's. To do this Stalin had to secure more power, because to reunite the party, it needed a leader, not disputing factions. Stalin had many reasons to undertake the five-year plans, and his glorification was such a reason, but there were far more important reasons for Stalin to introduce the five-year ... ...

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