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Josef Stalin was born on December 18th, 1878, in Georgia. As a youth, Stalin was a bank robber turned political activist. In 1922, Stalin was appointed to the office of General Secretary of the Communist ...

Vladimir Lenin was born on April 10th, 1870 in Russia. He was the leader of the Bolshevik party during the 1917 revolution and became the first head of the Soviet State. He was arrested numerous times up ...

The First World War was a large factor that contributed to the beginning of the February 1917 revolution. Why? The war affected far more people than the Russo-Japanese war did. That war was far away and d...

Long Term Causes: Autocratic nature of Tsar Nicholas’ regime. Believed in divine right to rule and that he was appointed by God to rule over Russia. Russia was huge. Very difficult to govern the entire pe...

the sodium-potassium pump enables the passage of sodium and potassium ions. Both of which must be present. This uses energy as it is done via active transport. They move across their concentration gradien...