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Bukharin Kamenev Lenin Stalin Party
425 words1879 - 1953, Russian revolutionary, head of the USSR (1924 - 53). A Georgian cobbler's son named Dzhugashvili, he joined the Social-Democratic party while a seminarian and soon became a professional revolutionary. In the 1903 party split (see BOLSHEVISM AND MENSHEVISM) he sided with LENIN. Stalin attended party congresses abroad and worked in the Georgian party press. In 1912 he went to St. Petersburg, where he was elected to the party's central committee. About this time he took the name Stalin...
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Stalin Man Or Monster
1,923 words... y leading figures were purged by confessing to being traitors and were executed. The purges were aimed at Party members to begin with, 500, 000 were arrested and executed or sent to labour camps. After the trails the purges were extended. By 1937 estimations show that 18 million people from all backgrounds, had been sent to labour camps. Source I shows the courtroom at Stalin's show trails. It shows Stalin as the judge and the defendants appear to be Yagoda, Zinoviev, Kamenev and Bukharin. T...
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Five Year Plans First World War
2,305 wordsBolshevik revolution The Bolshevik revolution occurred in November of 1917, its aim was to create a workers paradise and a dictatorship of the proletariat. By 1930, the Bolsheviks had imposed a totalitarian rule over Russia. This period can be divided into two distinct eras. Firstly, there was the period from 1917 - 1924, which included the decision to seize power, the civil war and a consolidation of power under the new economic policy. The second period occurred after Lenin's death, where oppo...
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Order To Achieve Central Committee
1,477 wordsStalin's rise to power was a combination of his ability to manipulate situations and the failure of others to prevent him from taking power, especially Leon Trotsky. Trotsky did not take advantage of several opportunities which would have helped him to crush Stalin politically. When he failed to take advantage of these opportunities, Stalin maneuvered himself into a stronger position within the party by allying with Zinoviev and Kamenev. He manipulated them into crushing Trotsky, thus eliminatin...
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York Oxford University Brest Litovsk
2,948 words(1879 - 1940) Leon Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) Leon Davidovich Trotsky (Bronstein) is one of the most contradictory characters in the history of Russian and international revolution movement-he was well known as a loyal leader of the masses and the Party, but on the other hand, his own ambitions often conflicted with interests of the Party members and other Communist leaders. Trotsky was born in 1879. His real name was Lev Davidovich Bronstein. His father was a well-to-do Jewish farm...
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Brest Litovsk Felt Threatened
2,589 wordsQuestion 1 Stalin and Trotsky led two very different political careers. Before 1917 Trotsky wasn t even a member of the Bolsheviks, siding with the Mensheviks at the 2 nd party congress in 1903 when the Social Democrats splintered into the two smaller parties: Mensheviks and Bolsheviks. Trotsky sided with the Mensheviks more pacifist views towards revolution and general protests. In fact it wasn t until after the March revolution in 1917 when he was in jail (following the July days) that he was ...
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Bukharin Kamenev Lenin Stalin Party
427 wordsStalin, Joseph Vissarionovich 1879 - 1953, Russian revolutionary, head of the USSR (1924 - 53). A Georgian cobblers son named Dzhugashvili, he joined the Social-Democratic party while a seminarian and soon became a professional revolutionary. In the 1903 party split (see BOLSHEVISM AND MENSHEVISM) he sided with LENIN. Stalin attended party congresses abroad and worked in the Georgian party press. In 1912 he went to St. Petersburg, where he was elected to the partys central committee. About this ...
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Bukharin Kamenev Lenin Stalin Party
428 wordsStalin, Joseph Vissarionovich 1879 - 1953, Russian revolutionary, head of the USSR (1924 - 53). A Georgian cobblers son named Dzhugashvili, he joined the Social-Democratic party while a seminarian and soon became a professional revolutionary. In the 1903 party split (see BOLSHEVISM AND MENSHEVISM) he sided with LENIN. Stalin attended party congresses abroad and worked in the Georgian party press. In 1912 he went to St. Petersburg, where he was elected to the partys central committee. About this ...
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Born On December Rise To Power
2,094 wordsStalin Stalin (1879 - 1953) Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was born on December 21, 1879, in the village of Gori, Georgia. He was born to Vissarion and Yekaterina Dzhugashvili. His father Vissarion, was an unsuccessful cobbler who drank heavily and beat him savagely. When Iosif was 7, he caught smallpox, which scarred him for life, and then he came down with septicemia, which left his left arm slightly crippled for life. He lived in the 1920 s a normal life, surrounded by many relatives who s...
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Stalin Lenin
3,904 wordsDo these sources give similar or different impressions of Stalin? These sources give different impressions of Stalin, however there are some similarities. Source A is a cartoon published in Paris in the 1930? s. It shows Stalin and the results of his policies according to the artist. The cartoon features Stalin showing three pyramids of skulls as if he was a tour guide. The caption under reads, ? Visit L? URSS ses pyramids! ? This translates to, ? Visit the pyramids of the USSR! ? This source is...
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Five Year Plan Joseph Stalin
2,545 wordsAs V. I. Lenin, the powerful leader of the Russian people, lay isolated and incapacitated after his first stroke, he warned of the dangers of his underling: Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary, has concentrated limitless power in his hands, and I am not sure that he will always manage to use this power with sufficient caution. (Bullock 120) The man who would eventually lead the nation of Russia in a downward spiral, from which it has still not escaped, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvi...
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Russian Social Democratic Communist Party
684 wordsRise to Power Stalin first became interested in politics when as a theology student; he began reading illegal the works of political philosopher Karl Marx. He eventually gave up his religious education to devote his time to the revolutionary movement against the Russian monarchy. After becoming involved in the movement, Stalin joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. When the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into the Menshevik and Bolshevik factions, Stalin was drawn to the m...
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Acute Labour Camps
3,907 wordsDepth Study B: Russia 1905 1941 Assignment B: Objective 3 Stalin: Man or Monster? 1) Study Sources A, B and C. Do these sources give similar or different impressions of Stalin? Explain your answer. (6) These sources give different impressions of Stalin, however there are some similarities. Source A is a cartoon published in Paris in the 1930 ´ s. It shows Stalin and the results of his policies according to the artist. The cartoon features Stalin showing three pyramids of skulls as if he wa...
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