... an author. In the end, he became a renowned writer and the best in that newspaper. General causes of the Russian Revolution Poverty In order to understand Trotsky's role in the Russian revolution in the year 1917, perhaps an insight into the causes of the Russian revolution would shed light upon some of the reasons as to why he was a major player in the fight. Russia was among the major empires ... that existed back then in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with its reach in Poland and a population of over 165 million. Despite ... this fact, the Russian empire was ... ...

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... had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities within the new Bolshevik government. Stalin's job was, basically, to manage relations between the various ethnic groups of the former Russian Empire and to develop some sort of coherent policy toward the questions of national secession and civil rights. ... foremen followed leaving clerks and common laborers above only from "slaves". Stalin re-introduced slavery to the Russian economy and put its control under GULAG (State Administration of C...

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... had no role in the October Revolution itself, he was shortly thereafter appointed, by Lenin, to the position of People's Commissar for Nationalities within the new Bolshevik government. Stalin's job was, basically, to manage relations between the various ethnic groups of the former Russian Empire and to develop some sort of coherent policy toward the questions of national secession and civil rights. ... foremen followed leaving clerks and common laborers above only from "slaves". Stalin re-introduced slavery to the Russian economy and put its control under GULAG (State Administration of C...

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... say in the Party's organising. A centralised party was, traditionally, against the Communist theory, as the idea of it being dominated by civil servants and paperwork did not appeal to the revolutionaries. Despite this, after the revolution in 1917, the Party quickly discovered that coping with the complexities of government obliged it to become more centralised. A new role that was made to accommodate the ever ... campaign of resistance across the Party, and in all reality could not have done so even if they had tried, due to Stalin's massive power base. By 1929 Bukharin had been expel...

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