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Thanks to his position of General Secretary, Stalin had ultimate control over the party. After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin was in a position to remove all other contenders for leadership. Stalin used burea...

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...