... 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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• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 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...

• Word Count: 7507
• Approx Pages: 30
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... I arrived, in 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....

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... the burning Brest-Litovsk Fortress in the background.   THE BREST PEACE TREATY The Russian people were exhausted by the long and bloody war. After the October Socialist Revolution of 1917 Russia became a state of Soviets. The new government tried to stop that war, adopting the Decree on Peace on November 8, 1917. According to it, the Soviet Russia suggested to impose immediately a truce and begin ... peace negotiations. But the Allies did not support Russia. The armistice negotiations started in Brest-Litovsk in December, 1917. They were held between ... , Russia withdrew from the war,...

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• Approx Pages: 36
• Grade Level: High School

... uprisings by revolutionary methods, which were achieved without sufficient communication. From Marx's publication to the 20th century, guerilla warfare briefly had its presence felt in the Russian Revolution of 1917. While Marx's idea captured the basic idea behind guerilla warfare, it lacked organization and insight. This led to the precise and definitive military thought introduced when communist revolutionary Mao Tse- ... often not felt, but these people live, they exist, and they must not be forgotten, for it is dangerous to forget them. Do not forget that if in the rear of Kolchak,...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate