1. Joseph Stalin
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 government, led by Lenin, made peace with the Germans and undertook a bloody, three-year civil war, in which Stalin commanded on several fronts. ... As Hitler rose to power in Germany, Stalin first contemplated forming a defensive alliance with Britain and France against the Nazis. ... But in June of 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union in blatant defiance of their pact. ... After Germany fell, he used Red Army troops to forcibly inst...
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