Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his family to work in a factory in Tiflis which was the capital of Georgia when Stalin was five years old. ... While Stalin was in prison the political group the Social Democrats split into two different branches. ... After the Bolshevik and Mensheviks split was final lenin was able to choose new men to run his parties central commitee. ...

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Poverty that the Russians experienced then was a long-term cause of the Russian revolution with the families within the empire existing at the mere level of subsistence (Westwood, 2002). ... Lack of Government Representation The Romanov family, also referred to as the royal family, had ruled over the empire for a minimum of three centuries and in the nineteenth century, the ruler was known as Tsar (Fiehn, Corin & School's History Project, 2011). The royal family has ruled and did not have any form of representation among the people considering that Tsar easily ignored the Duma, a body t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY AVANT-GARDE The avant-garde way of life prospered in Russia directly following the Revolution of 1917, generating one of the most awe-inspiring art movements of the twentieth century. Assembling an entirely new government, the Bolsheviks gave free reign to the Russian avant-garde to create a new culture and thus a new society through art. For this brief time, the culture of the avant-garde was synonymous with official cultural policy of the Soviets. Its leaders were empowered to establish government-sponsored art schools, and an entire system that espoused some of...

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During this period, the Social Democrats split into two factions, the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Lenin, and the Mensheviks. ... It was the end of any trace of "normal" family life for Stalin, and witnesses saw tears in his eyes at her funeral--the only report that we have of the great dictator crying. ...

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