HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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attempting to bring democracy to Russia
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jailing or murdering political opponents
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supporting the Russian Orthodox Church
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providing economic aid to Germany after World War I
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ruling by decree, Lenin’s Sovnarkom introduced widespread reforms confiscating land for redistribution among the permitting non-Russian nations to declare themselves independent, improving labour rights, and increasing access to education.
Detailed explanation-2: -To eradicate “enemies of the working class", Stalin instituted the Great Purge, in which over a million were imprisoned, largely in the Gulag system of forced labour camps, and at least 700, 000 executed by government agents between 1936 and 1938.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lenin was increasingly critical of Stalin; while Lenin was insisting that the state should retain its monopoly on international trade during mid-1922, Stalin was leading other Bolsheviks in unsuccessfully opposing this.
Detailed explanation-4: -His aims were to erase all traces of the capitalism that had entered under the New Economic Policy and to transform the Soviet Union as quickly as possible, without regard to cost, into an industrialized and completely socialist state.